Gallery: check out six posters (2011 - 2016) and behind-the-scenes production animations.

 

Olivia Hellman and Philip Chudy have worked on the annual, exclusive, limited-edition poster for Hardly Strictly Bluegrass since 2011, but this year was different.

From the start of the festival in 2001, Claude Shade, Senior Art Director and Photographer at Goodby Silverstein and Partners SF, was the creative force behind this much vaunted series. Claude’s passing in 2015 left a long shadow.

Olivia created the 2016 poster to double as a tribute to Claude, working with fellow photo artist Philip Chudy and a team that was intimate with the unique HSB festival ethos.