Aftershow

Together with my Touch colleagues, I curated Aftershow, an exhibition and pop-up shop at Leith Theatre in collaboration with Edinburgh International Festival. (Images by Alistair Ferrier for Touch.)

Before its doors closed in the 1980s Leith Theatre played host to everyone from AC/DC to Thin Lizzy and Kraftwerk. When we learned more about this rich musical history we were inspired to do something to help the ongoing community efforts to restore the space, so we designed a series of banners and accompanying merchandise that paid tribute to some of these performances.

The whole Touch team got involved, building a Shopify site, hanging banners, sourcing packaging and creating a point of sale display. Plus, we got to enjoy all the Light on the Shore shows at Leith Theatre, albeit from the confines of the merch booth…