Artist Peter Coffin began his work with the iconic designs of LA's Colby Poster Printing Company in 2008. Over the years, he solicited artists and friends to contribute their dream concerts-invented lineups for impossible gigs-and combined them with the colorful poster backgrounds. This effort resulted in 2017's Imaginary Concerts, a collaborative monograph depicting show posters curated from the lineups of more than 75 contributors. The result was a stirring celebration of music's vast conceptual universe.Coffin's roster of concert daydreamers includes Yoko Ono, Sasha Frere-Jones, Lydia Lunch, Quasimoto and many more. Featuring original typesetting by artist Adam Turnbull, Imaginary Concerts Volume 1 and 2transports the reader further into Coffin's uncannily evocative, nostalgia-tinged and personally revealing realm of musical what-ifs.

Downtown Los Angeles's Colby Poster Printing Co. famously churned out their iconic "show print" posters from 1946 until 2012. Peter Coffin's Imaginary Concerts grew out of experimenting with the print shop's patent eyeball-attracting inks and exhibiting a series of eighty text-less posters in Colby's tricolor gradient style, allowing the viewer to "what if...?" imaginary line ups into existence. After displaying the posters worldwide, Coffin enticed a handful of artists, authors, and otherwise daydreamers to depict their wildest concert bills in black letterpress. Co-published with Printed Matter, Imaginary Concerts collects and displays over 70 submissions against the hazy, horizontal color bands encouraging your cranium to creep its deepest concert fantasies.