The sheet is A4 portrait over a flat mustard ground. Across the upper two-thirds that ground is torn open onto a street plan: parcels and roads picked out in fine white line and scattered with small drawn marks — five-pointed stars, a crescent, a sun with a dashed corona, a Union Jack, rosettes and crest shapes. The tears run diagonally in long white strips, so the map reads as something ripped into rather than something framed.
GHANA / BBQ & BEER / FESTIVAL is set in three lines inside that panel, in a heavy display face whose letters are themselves torn — chunks bitten out of the stems, notches along the terminals — and scaled until the words nearly reach both margins. Below the last tear, back on the mustard, the practical information sits in a narrow hand-set white grotesque: BERMUDA GARDENS, then 30 SEPT 2017 and 11 AM * 15GHC on the two lines under it. A row of sponsor marks closes the foot of the sheet.
Three colourways were drawn from that one layout. The first keeps the map as a pale grey duotone and sets the headline in the mustard of the ground, so the title reads as a knock-out rather than as a colour. It carries no seal, and its sponsor row is reduced to white silhouettes — the Orijin disc and the Accra Brewery ellipse emptied to their outlines, Brand Minds, Surfline, team1000words.com and the dripping Jam Jar circle knocked out along with them.
The second inverts the map to black so the white line work and the headline can both strike hard, sets the type in yellow, returns the sponsors to full colour — Orijin, Accra Brewery Limited, Brand Minds, Gold Label Africa, Surfline, team1000words.com, Jam Jar and pulse.com.gh — and adds the festival seal in the top-right corner. That seal is a white disc lettered GHANA / BARBEQUE & BEER / FESTIVAL around a smiling illustrated guest in an embroidered shirt, thumbs-up in one hand and a frothing mug in the other, against a backdrop of red, gold, green and black stars. It gives the headline’s abbreviation in full and is the only colour illustration on the sheet.
The third keeps the black map and lays the whole ground under a flame-painted orange-to-red wash, which reads as fire rather than as a change of palette, and prefixes the venue line with an at-sign: @BERMUDA GARDENS.
The festival itself ran on 30 September 2017; documentation was published to our Behance archive in February 2018. View the original project on Behance.
