This is American Music is an entry to the Real Show, a competition hosted by the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington. The contest asks student designers to solve design problems that have been submitted by design firms, as projects already completed. This design problem was to design a poster and T-shirt for a Rock & Roll revue. The concert series features four independent rock bands. With my poster and T-shirt, I wanted to capture the off-beat rock feeling. I illustrated the names of the bands coming from an old-style gramophone that connects to a flower. The gramophone is meant to represent the roots of the American rock bands. The motif is carried on to the T-shirt.