Afterhours: a club night cover with crossing Lissajous ribbons
Afterhours is a club flyer cut like a magazine cover and printed on warm black. The Cover layout fits Afterhours across the full measure in condensed white, and a Lissajous figure with a 4:3 ratio rises from below as two broad ribbons of 60 white hairlines that cross in an X and run off the foot, its outer strand edged in hot pink. The body line, door times and a barcode sit around the figure like the small print on a ticket.
Make it yours
Set the tempo
Phase at 45 holds the two ribbons in an open X. Move it in steps of 15 and the crossing slides and tightens, a quick way to produce a run of weekly flyers that match without repeating.
Swap the neon
Only the outer strand uses the Accent, so the hot pink costs nothing in legibility. Try acid green or ultraviolet for another night, and keep Ink a warm off-white rather than pure white to stay easy on the eyes.
FAQ
How do I make a matching series of club flyers from one preset?
Keep Layout, Typeface and the colors fixed, and change only the Headline, the Footer and one curve setting per night, such as Phase or Symmetry. The cover format stays recognisable while each flyer gets its own figure, edition number and barcode.
How it works
Choose a layout and a line system
Combine one of 5 layouts, Swiss, Split, Cover, Caption or Oversized, with one of 5 equations, or start from one of 17 looks such as Kunsthalle, Riso Duo or Night Conference.
Write and set your copy
Edit the Eyebrow, Headline, Body and Footer, choose a Grotesk, Condensed, Wide or Serif Typeface, and wrap one word of the headline in asterisks to set it in serif italic.
Tune the drawing and use it
Adjust Symmetry, Resonance, Coupling, Phase, Warp, Copies, Line width and Shape scale, choose a Clean, Riso, Grid or Overprint finish and the colors, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.