Julian Montague (Montague Projects) is an artist, graphic designer and photographer based in Buffalo, New York.
Montague has worked with a wide range of clients, but he specializes in print design for arts related entities. As an artist he has exhibited widely in the United States and Europe.
His art work often uses graphic design as an element in constructing conceptual spaces. His latest body of work involves making fictional exhibition posters for an imagined 1970s art institution.
Montague has gained a following on Instagram for his regular finding and posting of obscure modernist book covers. He is also the author of the book The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field identification (Abrams, 2006) which won the Booksellers/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book title of 2006.
From the beginning of the process I knew I wanted to find a way to represent the diversity and scale of the festival using abstract forms in some way. I experimented with a number of different visual approaches, but eventually we found the solution; a set of four patterned shapes that can be rearranged depending on the space in which they appear.
The overlapping patterns represent the different types of sound waves/music/people interacting with one another. The patterned shapes also have an architectural feel to them which speaks to the physical spaces of the festival’s urban setting.