As someone who loves music but finds it hard to buy merch from my favourite bands, I love making my own. With the new Muppets TV show 'The Muppets Mayhem', about Muppet house band (and one of my all time favourites), The Electric Mayhem, I decided to make my own poster inspired by the band, their music and the wondrous themes of the 60s and 70s. 

For this project, I started by collecting images of the band, as well as promotional pieces. I noticed that a lot of bright colours were often used and everything has a psychedelic look to it, perfect for the band. Neon lights are also a common theme, especially because of their first logo, which makes sense as these types of lights were popular around when Jim Henson started creating The Muppets in the 1950s.

I wanted to incorporate the band members whilst also having something people would recognise as the Electric Mayhem. After some thought, I decided I wanted their most recognisable logo as the centrepiece, and keep the psychedelic theme going by using bright colours and smooth edges. I did, however, also want current Mayhem to shine through, which is why the poster also features their current logo, as well as being referred to as just 'The Electric Mayhem' and not 'Dr. Teeth and The Electric Mayhem', to fit in with updated Muppet canon.

The Electric Mayhem is inspired a lot by hippie culture, so to involve that in my piece, I created a flower with colours inspired by each band member (based on the neon character promotional art). I then worked on the mouth logo, which I interpreted as belonging to guitarist Janice (despite Dr. Teeth's golden tooth), and so when creating the lips themselves, I 'sculpted' them more thin and curved than the original to try and resemble Janice much closer.

Going back to the bright colours and psychedelics, I used the Adobe Illustrator pen tool to create waves emerging from behind the middle of the mouth logo. By duplicating and resizing the flower, I could continue this effect of the graphics almost coming towards you. I finally finished off by creating their current Beat logo, which I placed in the gap left by my place of the words 'electric' and 'mayhem'. The other gap is filled by the names of the band members, in order of who I thought would be most to least recognisable to the average viewer.