Because of a ticket’s ability to serve as a keepsake, the world of ticket design has evolved greatly. A great ticket can make your next business event stand out. You can continue your branding efforts right through to your ticket designs.

Below are just a few of the best and most unique ticket designs that have been created. Get inspired!

1. Popcorn

2. Breakaway

3. Taste of London

4. Burning Man

5. Tamarack campground

For the first annual pig roast at Tamarack Campground, visual artist Theresa Garritano designed this retro ticket to give the event a sense of history as well as promote the main draw. The information is organized in a neat and stylish way, definitely appealing to individuals who love pig roasts to the event as well as giving them a memorable souvenir.

6. Beautiful Losers

7. A Night With Bossa Nova

8. Muskats at Milton

9. Annual Festival of Design

10. The Wolf

11. NTU fashion week

What is a fashion week without a fashionable ticket stub? For the biggest week in their year, Nottingham Trent University tapped the audio-visual company Un.titled to design them a sophisticated ticket that would appeal to the audiences that might soon become customers of the graduates.

12. First Class Travel

13. Montreal Jazzfest

14. Ancora music festival

To reflect the many attendance options presented by the Ancora music festival, graphic designer Christina Paone created a minimalist set of admittance tickets that presents the main information in a concise way while giving the event an avant-garde image.

15. Through the Life of Leger

16. Bauhaus exhibition

What we have here is an extraordinary ticket design from Henning Humml that stylishly catalogues the artists in the BauHaus Weimar 90 Jahre exhibition in Berlin. Aware that certain fans might come for a particular artist, Humml designed the ticket to serve as a promotional vehicle as well as a tool for admittance.

17. Drowning in a Fishbowl

18. Cigars Under the Stars

19. KORP

20. MMM Ticket

Graphic designer Raul Reis created this playful and effective set of tickets for the MMM Portugal shopping center. These tickets are sophisticated enough to be family-friendly while appealing to pre-teens and teens, the main customers of the malls.

21. Creative event poster and ticket

22. Möde

23. Stache Bash

24. Triumph of the Ordinary

25. Unleashed

26. Air Univers

27. Placido Domingo

Aleksey Belyalov created a real winner for a concert given by star opera singer Placido Domingo. Aside from its unique design and texture, the ticket is actually split into three parts making it more like an invitation to an exclusive event than a public distribution tool. The envelope is separate from the ticket and there is even vellum paper displaying the seat number of the customer for added elegance.

28. Fusion Music + Arts Festival

29. Event Ticket

30. Monophone

If you’re looking for a ticket design that catches the eye immediately and draws the attention of the consumer to the exact nature of an event, then this Randy Raharja masterpiece is something you will like. Filling his space with unique illustrations of various musical instruments as well as the names of some of the larger sponsors and performers, there is little doubt as to the nature of this event.

31. Design Film Festival

32. The New Scene Theatre

33. Ticketmaster

34. One night pass

35. Golden Ticket

The idea of the golden ticket has given rise to far fewer winning endeavours than one might think but this golden ticket for a radio campaign is an obvious exception. Featuring gold foil on the back that could be scratched off to reveal a possible prize, this golden ticket definitely raised the excitement level! It effectively combined a lottery-ticket concept with a design inspired by Roald Dahl’s Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.

36. Ten Year Reunion

Brittany Giles is the Social Media Specialist at The Printing House.

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