Behold This Year's Burning Man Ticket Designer: Arin Fishkin
"Creating this ticket is more or less equivalent to printing money, since each one is valued over $200," notes San Francisco-based graphic designer Arin Fishkin, who created this year's Burning Man ticket. "Security features include embossing and two separate foil stamps, including one holographic. The ticket is also meant to be a tiny piece of art that builds enthusiasm and communicates the theme of the event (this year its Metropolis)."
Claiming that this was "more demanding per square inch than anything I've ever worked on," Fishkin has also worked with other local, very SF-y businesses like Bi-Rite, Bi-Rite Creamery, and the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, just to name a few.
Fishkin -- who has been attending Burning Man since 1996, and have been doing design work for them since 2004 -- went on to tell us how she landed this coveted design gig, explaining, "The process starts with a call for submission to a group of pre-selected artists, there were about a dozen submissions presented anonymously and the final decision is the founder's, Larry Harvey's."
What's more, this is only the second Burning Man ticket designed by a woman. For more information, visit arinfishkin.com.
Tickets for Burning Man 2010 went on sale last week.