This poster designed my Michael B. is the perfect example of how you shouldn't design a  gig poster.  The designer broke every rule in the book! This is one of the most hideous designs I have ever seen. First off, there should be a maximum of only three fonts in a design, and the creator of this monstrosity used seven different fonts. Maybe there are so many fonts because all the bands featured on the poster wanted there logos to be there, but I'm not so sure this is the case. To make things worse the designer put a stroke around the majority of the font. This just makes the whole thing look unprofessional and messy. If the designer didn't put a stroke around the font he decided to put the rest of the font in boxes, which makes the text confined a the overall design even more busy. After using different fonts, different colors, stroke and boxes, the designer added a drop shadow to the back of all the text. There is a picture of a rose in the background but it is almost all covered in text. To make it better you would need to get rid of the stroke, drop shadow, different fonts and different colors. It would probably just be better to start over.