In Spring of 2017, I was tapped by the good people at Nakatomi Inc. to take a swing at a couple VIP posters for Nashville rock superstars Kings of Leon. The brief was pretty open: no drugs or violence (pretty standard ask from major touring acts) and if possible could I work cherries into the motif somehow. Apparently cherries have long been a visual trademark of KoL. I’d never really worked with anything like that before but thought, “sure, why not? It’ll be a challenge at the very least.”

I wanted to approach the cherry thing as a means to try something more clever than just a visual edition as an afterthought. The cherries would need to be integral to the theme, and where possible, drive the imagery.