Back2Mono

Back2Mono is a vinyl record pop-up experience, celebrating the rich culture and history of music through vinyl records. Back2Mono Volume 2 highlighted Dance Music History. Three different vinyl collections from Manila, Hong Kong, and Japan featured how our dance music sensibilities progressed from the 1970’s to today. Besides the visual identity of the event, I also managed and personally produced all the printed event materials—noren, stickers, shirts, and posters.

John Borras Tan
Creative Direction, Design, Print Production

Shigeki Fukuda
Creative Direction, Event Organizer

Tim Arafiles
Photography

Simple, playful, and ever changing, Back2Mono’s logo uses basic shapes to show different faces and emotions.

The key visual illustrations are inspired by editorial cartoons and The Far Side. I also did the merchandise production – stickers, posters, shirts, record crate labels, and the Japanese curtain, Noren.