Free ticket mockups

The perforation is the whole design problem. A ticket has to read as one piece before it's torn and as two afterwards, so the layout is really split across a line: the main body the holder shows on the way in, and the stub they keep or the gate collects. Both halves need to stand alone — each carrying the event name, a date, a number — which means the design can't just centre everything and hope, it has to work either side of the tear. The perforation itself becomes a design element, a deliberate break rather than an accident.

It's a small format doing a lot of jobs at once. There's the event identity, but also the practical furniture — seat and row, a barcode or QR, a serial number, terms in tiny type — and on real tickets that admin has to coexist with the artwork without swamping it. These cover concert and festival passes, cinema and theatre admits, raffle and cloakroom stubs, boarding and travel tickets, so they're often shown both whole and mid-tear to present the piece intact and the moment it's used. Seeing it torn is the real test — that both halves still say what they need to.