uwe..the unsung poster you would of never seen...til now...
This is my poster for the whole series for the Culinary and Cultural film series 2006.
February 16, 2006
February 15, 2006
Culinary and Cultural series poster
February 13, 2006
Can this wait til I'm old, Can I live while I'm young...
Afternoon to all, so after what was predetermined to be a crappy morning, turns out pretty damn good. I guess you have to ask yourself, "Am I breathing?" Once I finally got home a little bit ago, I flipped on the Olympics, and drowned out the announcers with some jams from Phish. Phish, Who I thought to be the greatest band ever when there not too drunk, gave me an idea, to check out there gig posters, and if your into that whole hipster, vintage, jams, check these sites out, theres more bands, but these links bring you to the Phish posters. The second link is one poster, but everything about it is appealing. The poster has good depth, vibrant colors and the vintage feel, but with a little tweak to it as well. The placment of the type and image are awesome in my opinion. The image really helps bring your eye down to the other info.
http://www.gigposters.com/posters.php?band=1319&s=46
http://graphics.boston.com:80/bonzai-fba/Original_Graphic/2004/08/06/1091808964_1553.jpg
I was trying to get another site up here but it directs you to something different thast requires a password, but there was a poster for the phish coney island show and they twisted and played with an image of a rollercoaster and the name phish, so that the the word phish was the rollercoaster, my favorite poster by far.
Im gonna make some pizza and soak in all my glory for the next hour or so,
B
P.s. this entry seems like a diary somewhat.
P.p.s. damnit Im even doing the P.s. things in a letter/diary. I gotta go...
BLOG, BLOG, BLOG...
Holy crap! so many great posters out there... its hard to retain information about everyone. Since were talking about designing for theater and music posters, I searched for just those designs on the internet. I found a really cool image from the movie fiddler on the roof
http://www.footlightsgallery.com/imagelg/fiddler2.jpg>
It has a great contrast of positive and negative space, its not too busy, and has a very playful feel to it in terms of imagery and type, just like most of the movie is. Some things I have noticed throughout theater, film series, and music posters are alot of scrapbooking type, bubble (lmost cloud-like 60's vintage) type, and do not rely too heavily on a grid, however alot of vibrant colors and symmetry, especially with the music posters. some decent examples can be found at
http://www.wolfgangsvault.com/Static.aspx?Type=Category/Category_CA.htm&CategoryID=CA
February 12, 2006
researching #1
As I was looking through a Graphic Design annual from the library, I noticed that most advertisers or designers put most their "punch line" or eyecatcher not just on the paper as type, but they include it or fix the image, so that soem of the type is the image or is in the image. Also, as I am looking at two page layouts, alot of them have the type on one side and a very powerful image on the other. A third thing, Ive noticed and Im thinking Ive noticed these things because I like the idea and have used some what of this kind of solution in my design layouts. Anyways, designers use color boxes and transparent them down to say 50%, so you can see behind the box and really makes a good use of space. As I discover more design ideas and such, I will blog accordingly.
February 6, 2006
Film series poster
For our first assignment, we were asked to design posters for the Department of Foreign Languages and Literature's Spring 2006 film series. There were 5 posters total, and I designed the poster for The Cook, the thief, his wife, and her lover.