Zikenstock
The context
Zikenstock is a volunteer-run alternative-rock festival held in the cattle market of Le Cateau-Cambrésis. Nineteenth edition, three days in May, nineteen punk, oi!, ska and hardcore bands, free camping and free entry under twelve. Ticketing belongs to two resellers, Placeminute and Ronce Records: the site takes no money, it makes the case. That constraint set the structure. Since the transaction ends somewhere else, the page has one job — carry a cold visitor to the outbound click certain they have seen everything: the line-up, the times, the price, the place, what is included. One page, eight sections, no navigation to learn.
The reasoning
One page, not a site
A festival is decided in a single visit. Splitting the line-up, the schedule and the prices across three pages adds two chances to give up between wanting to go and paying. Everything sits in one vertical column, and the menu does not navigate — it scrolls. Six anchors: artists, schedule, tickets, gallery, information, shop.
The poster is text
The nineteen names are set in decreasing sizes, from Krav Boca down to Oi Boys: the hierarchy of the poster reads at a glance, and every name stays selectable, copyable and indexable. A festival whose line-up is a JPEG is a festival nobody finds while searching for The Toy Dolls in the north of France.
Three days visible at the same time
The schedule has no day picker. Friday, Saturday and Sunday are three columns side by side, each band on its real slot, from 15h00 to 01h45. That is exactly the comparison a festival-goer makes before choosing between a 29 € day ticket and the 69 € three-day pass; hiding it behind a tab hides the argument for the pass.
The price arrives with what it contains
The three tiers — 29 €, 49 €, 69 € — sit in three cards that each repeat the same four lines: days covered, free under twelve, food and bar on site, free camping. The repetition is deliberate. Nobody scrolls back up to read the small print on another card, and the three-day pass carries its “Le + malin” tag without having to explain it.
The exit to the ticket shop is announced
The buy button says what is about to happen: Acheter un billet — Placeminute, dès 29 €. Both resellers are named at the foot of the ticket section and again in the footer. A disguised outbound link costs trust at the exact moment trust is worth most; an announced one costs nothing.
The photographs do the work text cannot
The feel of a punk festival is not described, it is shown. Yann Plastic Bertrand's prints from previous editions open the page as a tilted collage and come back full-frame further down, credited. No generic imagery and no stock crowd: only Zikenstock.
The practical questions, in the order they are asked
Four numbered cards close the page: camping, children, merch, getting there. These are the four objections left once the line-up has been accepted. The last one gives the exact address, avenue du Maréchal De Lattre De Tassigny, with the landmark that actually helps on the ground — next to the vehicle inspection centre — and a link to the map.
Quiet on the surface, loud in the detail
Near-black, one red, a condensed face for the headings. The scrolling banner of what is included, the grain of the prints and the offsets of the collage carry the energy; everything else holds still, so that nineteen names and their start times stay readable on a phone, in the street.
What shipped
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