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"Rogue Wave: The New Gig Poster" features 25 gig posters from designers Jason Munn of The Small Stakes, Aesthetic Apparatus, Delicious Design, Dan Stiles and others.

Organized by two-dimensional art professor Lawrence Gipe, the collection has an ongoing theme with an emphasis on design and process over the traditional illustrative content of rock posters. The exhibition displays posters posessing qualities simliar to Munn's design for a gig by the ambient/punk band Deerhunter. The posters contain no faces, instruments or descriptive elements; put plainly the posters have nothing literal to do with the band. It is in Munn's combination of static hatching with an assault of clashing colors that the artist creates a design pralleling the band's sonic mission. Several popular bands will be featured in the exhibit including: Radiohead, Death Cab for Cutie, Modest Mouse, Beck, Explosions in the Sky and The Flaming Lips.