If you’re a fan of ‘90s alternative rock and attend concerts in the Boston area, chances are that you’ve seen the artwork of Nicole Anguish (Daykamp Creative). The list of bands her show flyers have advertised is growing into a who’s who of ‘90s alt rock heroes: Nada Surf; Tanya Donelly; Superchunk; Juliana Hatfield; and Letters to Cleo, to name a few. Below is some of the work she’s done in recent years and the inspirations behind them.

[Letters To Cleo // The Paradise, Nov. 16-18, 2017]

In late 2017, Letters to Cleo’s three studio albums were released for the first time ever on vinyl. To mark the occasion, the band performed each album in full for this three-night concert series. The poster Anguish designed features imagery from each of the three album covers: the white shoes come from Aurora Gory Alice; the grenade from Wholesale Meats And Fish; and the pavement / double yellow line from Go!

[Superchunk / Swearin @ The Sinclair, April 6th, 2018]

This was inspired by the Superchunk song “Green Flowers, Blue Fish”

[Nada Surf / Amber Arcades @ The Met, Sept. 16th 2016]

The Nada Surf song “Gold Sounds” inspired this design.

[Tanya Donelly @ ONCE Somerville, Sept. 30th 2016]

“I just wanted to draw her hair. And I don’t really draw faces,” Anguish says with a laugh. “It’s not because I’m like, ‘Oh, I think it’d be cool if it didn’t have a face,’ it’s because I can’t draw faces, it’s really hard[…] Sometimes I’ll look at—if I draw a person with no face—I’ll look at them and I can kind of see the face in there. And I think that’s kind of a neat thing, at least for me, that instead of having a face that is probably off or one eye is bigger than the other, at least if it’s blank I can just put my own face in there in my head…”

On how she came up with the illustration of Donelly with pixie wings, Anguish says, “That’s just how I see her. She’s just awesome, she’s magical.”

[Nada Surf / Elliot Moss @ Rough Trade, Sept. 23rd 2014]

The inspiration from this poster came from the 1965 movie Help!—specifically its depiction of The Beatles sharing an apartment with separate entrances for each member.

[Elvis Depressedly / Teen Suicide @ ONCE Somerville, Sept. 3rd, 2016[

“I like to do funny things sometimes and I thought it was funny,” Anguish says of this poster. “It gave me a chuckle.”

[“She Was Known For her Magic Power”]

“The Spoke Art Gallery contacted me a few years ago and they were putting on another of their Bad Dads shows which was… They would just ask artists to do something that was Wes Anderson related. And I love Wes Anderson so much. I was like, really!? Oh my god,” Anguish says.

This piece takes a scene from Moonrise Kingdom where the character Suzy sits reading a book in a window sill, but combines her with the character Margot from another Wes Anderson movie, The Royal Tenenbaums. Margot’s hair, wallpaper, and book of plays are imposed on this shot from Moonrise Kingdom.

[The Safes – A Tribute to Juliana Hatfield seven-inch, front and back cover]

The artwork on this recently released tribute to Juliana Hatfield was inspired by vintage medical illustrations. Anguish, who’d designed Hatfield’s Olivia Newton-John tribute album earlier in the year, helped connect The Safes to American Laundromat Records (Hatfield’s label).

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