As you are adding things to your poster, consider some of these tutorials for illustrator!
They really help you to learn the software as you follow along.
I was just watching this music video, and it seemed pretty graphically inspiring, I really like how they mix animated graphics with live action video, especially the t-shirt animation.
I thought this was a really cool commercial, it made me want to go try to make a slinky out of sticky notes.
After flipping through some of the posters in class today, one really just sticks in my head: the pear with the writing on it. I am just hooked… So I went online and googled fruit images, and low and behold I found a couple more cool ones to check out:
http://technabob.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/03/apple_logo_rainbow_fruit.jpg
http://bp1.blogger.com/_OKRn9Z4VF8k/Rn_0bxJBYHI/AAAAAAAAASU/x6UrzfpN4Y0/s400/fruit1.jpg
http://eschenck.typepad.com/ernie_schenck_calls_this_/images/banana_medres.jpg
http://ny-image2.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.29593362.jpg
Now, I would love to do something creative with fruit (is it wrong to choose an organization/event based on what I want to put on the poster?). It may not end up this way, but if anyone runs across an event with fruit in it, please let me know.
Oct 7th bring roughs to class to show.
Due date has been moved back to the 14th of October
I don’t watch too much television, so I was unfamiliar to the “Six Feet Under” show Professor Harper brought up last class as having one of those cool and inspirational opening credits. So I found it on youtube for my own entertainment and I am posting it on here for others to see as well:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6WATB9PFdE
Definitely very interesting. I like how a lot alludes to death without being overly gorey or violent or without directly saying “this person is dead.” Even up until you see a toe with a tag on it, there is very much a sense of death evoked by the muted colors. Check it out…
I was just browsing some album covers that i thought were really cool. So many of them incorporate some pretty sweet graphic elements. Here a few I liked:
Just wondering what album covers some other people find appealing.
Concerning Project
- Feel free to use objects around you for textures, e.g. stuff in your pocket, on the floor, etc.
- You are encouraged to play around with a flatbed scanner
- You can extrapolate on a not-for-profit logo in your own design, e.g. Obama Logo in “Change Rocks Benefit” poster
Gestalt Principles
- Tools for structuring a message via visual communication
- Whole is greater than the sum.
- Proximity: Shapes in logical proximity make sense. Good: Known shapes, repetition
- Humans like things simple, easy to interpret
- Simplicity makes concept easier to convey across a broader audience
- Similarity
- Continuation: Use of color, using a line/path to express movement or direction (swoosh)
- Closure: Can recognize objects even when it is not completely closed. Your mind takes care of the rest.
I was looking for posters on google and came across this website. It has some pretty cool band posters on it. http://gigposters.com/
-matt conte
Posters are fun stuff! Get to do a lot more funk than with a resume.
Look Deeper
Ask yourself why are you feeling/reacting.
How does your reaction relate to the structure, shape and color
Look at it in the abstract
Deprives us of subject matter we consider indispensable
You don’t have to be literal to express an item, or a feeling/emotion.
Leads us beyond the distractions of practical particulars: the obvious. Think beyond the obvious!
Wassily Kandinsky 1910
Famous artist
We can find our lives reflected in abstractions.
Book: Picture This By Molly Bang
Red Triangle: Strength, Balance…
Little Red Riding Hood portrayed with shapes and colors
Vertical shapes: exciting, active, energy, upward movement, against gravity, rising up.
Diagonal shapes: motion, mountains, tension, falling, at the tipping point.
Triangle: Flat base = Stability
Color and placement: Triumph; objects in top half feel more “spiritual”
Heavier: objects in bottom half have more “pictorial weight.”
Separation – Center of attention
Sharp points: Knives, weapons
