The poster advertises blink-182's comeback album "Neighborhoods" released after their 2005 breakup. The grayscale album cover contrasts with the black background to suggest a return to their musical roots. The band's name blends seamlessly with the labyrinthine buildings, representing the album's relatability. The graffiti-style font references rapper Travis Barker's inclusion on a track. Iconic New York graffiti and buildings symbolize the "concrete jungle" setting, relating to Barker's urban influences. Release date, album title, and band name are prominently displayed to attract audience attention.

1. Holly Taylor
blink-182 Album Advertisement Analysis.
The poster is an advertisement for one of the most popular and influential Pop Punk bands:
blink-182’s comeback album after their breakup in 2005. This particular poster advertisement is
much anticipated by many fans of the band and so therefore is quite eye catching with the white
font contrasting against the black/greyscale background. The main central image is the album’s
cover called “Neighborhoods”. The central image is in greyscale and creates a feeling of the
band going back to their original roots as the greyscale colour tone is conventional of the past
and therefore suggests that the band’s sound is similar to their old music as the grayscale is
quite traditional.
The band’s name seamlessly blends with the background of the labyrinthine structure of the
buildings for the band’s name to be structured similar to the roofs of the buildings in the
neighbourhood. This suggests that the band’s new album is relatable for everyone and the
band’s identity is established as being a relatable and engaging band for audiences to relate to.
The font used on this poster is complex, made up of different shaped straight lines in graffiti like
font. The graffiti style is associated with the “hip hop” genre, this is representative of Travis
Barker who has included a rapper as a special guest on one of the album’s tracks and so this is
represented through the font of the album’s name: “Neighborhoods”.
Characters
There are no particular characters
that feature on this album poster
and so this suggests that the band
are well established enough to not
have to provide any characters or
any images of themselves to
advertise their album, as they are
already well established and easily
recognisable just by their name
alone.
Iconography:
The iconic imagery in this particular
poster is the graffiti written on the
buildings which are supposed to
symbolise the concrete jungle that is
New York. Graffiti is typically an iconic
image associated with urban New York,
and so a relatable aspect is created.
The graffiti on the buildings are tributes
to friends of the band and band
member’s, such as the name “DJ AM”
which is located on one of the buildings
towards the front, was a close friend of
the drummer: Travis Barker. He died in
2009 and so his name featuring on the
buildings is a memorial and a tribute to
him. This creates a personal and
emotional connection with the
audience.
Setting:
The setting of this poster is New York
with all the buildings symbolising the
“concrete jungle” setting of New York
which creates quite a confined,urban
feeling towards the album,which
suggests thatsome ofthe tracks to
feature on the album feature Travis
Barker’s more urbanised roots.
Features of the poster
Below the album artwork for the Neighborhoods album features text which says: “Neighborhoods
The new album from blink-182, featuring “Up all Night”. The title of the album and the band’s
name are both in large font of the same size, which suggests the importance the band’s name is
when it comes to attracting people to purchase their album. The date is also in quite a large font,
with the date, title and band’s name in a similar size, this is so when the audience is looking at
the poster, they see the main points of interest in order to know when the album is set for
release. The band’s logo is situated towards the bottom left side of the poster and stands out
against the black background, which suggests that the band’s logo is a focal point of interest to