The 2011 one is the fourth edition of Sotoko Hotsak for which we designed the poster. When we started talking about it with the guys from Sinuose (the team that organizes this event) they told us that the musicians who were going to perform were Xabier Montoia, Anari and Joseba Irazoki, singer-songwriters of recognized prestige in the Basque Country and some of them also in Spain.
A singer-songwriter goes on stage with only his voice, sometimes accompanied by just a guitar. Hence, the concepts we wanted to convey were craftsmanship (as a result of doing everything yourself with few resources), warmth and loneliness. To represent the first two we made a traditional hand illustration and for the last one we came to the conclusion that the same loneliness that a singer-songwriter can feel on stage is transmitted by a lighthouse in the middle of the sea. For this reason we wanted to combine these two ideas by creating a visual metaphor: a lighthouse-microphone or a microphone-lighthouse. Voice, music, loneliness ...
