Any fan of the muppet show will recognize the muppets that are displayed in this picture. This is a really cool minimalist approach to drawing the muppets and I thought it was so interesting that you can recognize them just based on a few shapes. It’s a testament to how popular the show is, and how talented this artist is that we can tell who these muppets are just by looking at a very small amount of simple images. I thought this was a cool graphic and needed to be shared on the blog. Check out the original post by clicking on the picture!
In redoing this project, I wanted to try and still incorporate the Target logo into my design, since I felt this was an important part of the poster’s message. However, I wanted to try to connect the idea of hunger with the target image, which I don’t think I was completely successful in doing last time. With this redo, after experimenting with various ideas, I ended up placing text in the target image, making a sort of montage of ideas related to hunger. I think that this connects the two ideas more effectively, and the starkness of the white background contrasted with the poster’s central image helps to communicate that idea.
I was at a loss of where to start when re-doing my poster. I wasn’t really thrilled with my original design and wasn’t sure what elements, if any, I could keep and use in redesigning it. I had originally had a lot of ideas but they were all too complex for me to execute effectively with my limited skill with Adobe products. I ended up just using several simple shapes to create my design. I tried to play with perspective, but I guess none of the elements really worked together.
After going to office hours several times I began to find a direction to go in. I knew I needed to reduce the number of elements I had on my page and make it less crowded and complicated. I began by zeroing in on the road. I made the whole background black and made yellow lines. I really liked my can, and decided to place that at the end of the road in order to indicate “the end of the road for hunger.” Orange and black are the accent colors for Friends of Night People, which is why I chose to make it the color of both my type and the label on the can. I chose yellow for the type on the can in order to keep consistent with the idea of the yellow lines in the road.
Another element that did not work in my favor in the original design was the font and how it was set up. In this re-do, I chose Helvetica because the clean lines went well with the lines in the road. I also chose to stack the sections of type to go along with the strong linear theme. I italicized the work ‘Run’ to give it the appearance of being in motion. I also eliminated some of the text that I had that was unnecessary, such as the full address.
Overall I am more satisfied with my redo than my original design. It is a lot simpler, the lines are much cleaner, and it is a lot friendlier to the viewer’s eye.
For this re-do I decided to completely overhaul my poster, since I wasn’t able to execute my original idea the way I wanted to. I decided to go with an outer-space theme, and make Birthright about having an “out-of-this-world experience.” I went for an all black background and tiny ellipses with various glow effects on them to resemble stars. I then took an image of the Israeli flag and went to Photoshop to turn it into a spherical object that would most closely resemble a planet. I then put a small image of earth in the background to show the departure from earth to another planet. I wanted all the type to integrate into the poster, so I made it white and chose Gill Sans Ultra Bold to give it a sort-of “spacey” look. I then put a white overlay on all of the text as well as a white drop shadow to make it look like it was glowing, similar to the stars in the background. Overall, I would say this poster came out a lot better than the last one, and that choosing a different theme for it was a good idea.
Rationale of the Poster Redo
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Jianglin Gui
Following Prof. Harper’s suggestion, I change the Script Font, which is hard to read, to Copperplate, which belongs to the class of Sans Serif. And I changed to black to dark gray in order to emphasis the title “Butterfly Exhibits” which is black. Then I add effects to the letters so that they look rougher and more balanced in my poster together with the pixel image and title.
Another change I make is that I put all the text upward a little bit because in the original version, the button of the poster seemed crowded due to the too much words.
And I pay more attention to the details: I create more rulers this time to make sure 1> the space between “save the colors of nature” and “butterfly exhibits” and the space between “Butterfly Exhibits” and the information downside is the same 2> the height of the title and that of the sub-info. Is the same (so that the sub-info. won’t looks too heavy). 3> the blank space of the poster’s top and that of the button is the same (I ignore the first pixel of the butterfly’s antenna because the color is too light to be noticed and won’t affect the poster’s center-of-gravity position). 4> the centralized text is actually in the center position (I count the distance by creating and moving rectangles, the way that the prof. suggested in class before.)
Hope I can get an Ace~
Rationale is posted in server.
I was asked to make the reflection of the dog more realistic and to make the type of my original poster stand out more. I increased the opacity of the window font to make it more legible and I increased the size of the font on the sidewalk. I kept most everything else the same because I liked the style and the integration of type that I had achieved in my first turn in. In order to make the dog’s reflection more realistic, I found another photograph of a dog and live traced it in Illustrator. I then distorted it in photoshop to get the perspective right. After bringing it back in Illustrator I reduced the opacity to make it look like a reflection. I feel that it looks much more realistic now and more cohesive with the rest of the poster.
Rational
I decided to go in a completely different direction for my poster redo. My previous poster tried to capture a child-like feeling through using bright colors as toy blocks to spell out “toy drive”. After meeting with Professor Harper during afterhours I realized that although the idea made sense, it was difficult to read due to the multitude of bright colors. I then decided that it would be best if I completely started over.
For my poster redo I decided that I could effectively convey my message in more sophisticated style. Since my poster is for a toy drive for Children’s Hospital Boston, I decided to incorporate a winter/holiday feeling. I made the background to be a deep navy blue gradient. I then used the paintbrush to integrate snow flakes on the blue background. I think the background effectively conveys a winter atmosphere!
After creating the background I then used the shape tool to create boxes/presents. I decided to make the presents appear in the traditional Christmas colors, red and green. In order to generate ideas for my new poster I researched vintage Christmas posters. I then found several old holiday posters that all had one thing in common, cursive typography. I chose to use the font, Snell Roundhand for the entire poster because I believe it brought a classic and holiday feeling to the poster
Even though the poster project has already been completed, I couldn’t resist posting this awesome example that I found while searching for website inspiration. I am absolutely in love with this poster. Graphically enthralling and full of life.
For my poster redo, I changed my font choice to Skia. I think that Skia, a more modern, san serif, fits my illustration better than ITC Lubalin Graph Std, my previous font. I also reduced the size of the type under each fire truck, because the larger type took away from the illustration.
