BR posters. progress and mistakes

while looking at different art movements i was very interested in the shapes used in the art deco movement, so i wanted to try and use the "slotting together" of shapes in this image, i also looked at art nouveau and wanted try out using flowing organic shapes also and see what looked better.i started off trying to edit my poster by adding texture to the top brown section and the top red section, then playing around with fonts. when printing this it came out blurry i am not sure if it is the image or the printer i was using, i will try print from another printer and see how it comes out. the bottom info ( the web sight and the phone number) was not lined up properly. and the events info was not lined up properly. i also wanted to try using white so it would stand out more against the red. and try adding blue to match the hat at the top.

after adding the blue strip to match the hat i decided that the border reiver face was not a strong and more obvious border reiver face. so i decided to look up images of border reiver men. i also decided to look renaissance faire posters for inspiration on the typography and colour.

after finding the new face image i decided to add a more bold font and use black for the Border Reivers title. i also wanted to deepen the colours on the poster overall and the strip with the date and location i wanted to match the top of the poster for a separation of shapes.

i added the blue 'We Ride' to have a contrast against the red but i kept a looser more art nouveau font as i liked how it looked and instead of lining up the events in columns i decided to do it as a list. i also changed the positioning of the number and web sight at the bottom and i really like how it looks i then noticed Hawick was misspelled.

I am going to line up the events list so there is a straight gap in-between the writing and the ends line up, i aslo need to put a capital letter at telephone and i want to see if a bolder blue would look better.

I changed the 'We Ride' colour to match the colour at the top, also changing the events list to a font easier to read and changed it to a white with a yellow tint to it to complement the colour of the 'we ride' type. the typeface i used for the events list to me, dose not look correct. try using only two fonts.

i decided to research typography more.

Comments

Alice Potter

. Digital Media . Illustration . Surface Pattern . Alice Potter I decided to start my research with Alice Potter. I was interested in Alice Potter's work because it is very different to what i usually look at. Potter is a London based freelance illustrator and children's wear print designer. Design is something i am not sure i have an eye for, i do appreciate it but i don't tend to find myself attracted to it, or give it as much thought as i probably should. http://alicepotter.co.uk https://www.etsy.com/uk/shop/AlicePotter I love the colours in this one above, i like how simple it is, but it still translates as an apple. I like the dot print i think it adds a kind of sweetness to the design as well as add something to the flatness of it. I really like these, i love how happy they look because of the use of colour. Potter draws her work out in her sketch book and then moves onto illustrator where she uses the pen ...

Typography Investagation.

We have started a new unit, typeface and letterforms. I found this very daunting, because, it is a completely new, huge world to me that i have never explored... We watched a film about Helvetica and it was very interesting but like i said i feel really overwhelmed. I wanted to know what happened before more in depth and really look into it as best i could. I decided to calm my nerves by looking into the history of type face, and to, i guess start at the beginning... for myself. while researching i found out that a lot of people agree that the creator of typography was a German man named Johannes Gutenberg. But before he came along books needed to be scribed, by hand. Obviously this was very time consuming, So Guttenberg created Blackletter. I think this was modeled after the scribe's. It has thick vertical lines, and thin horizontal connectors. This was hard for printing, as it looked very dense and squished together. So then came Roman Type, the first roman type was cr...

Photography : Rommert Boonstra & Laurie Simmons

For photography i wanted to look at artists who use models or staged worlds for their photography because its not something i looked into previous years. From moodel i came across Rommert Boonstra. He is a photographer, poet and theater director. He also taught photography at several art academies.He is well known for his Staged photography and he has Four books are published about his photo works. He uses everyday objects to create these worlds... I am pretty taken aback with these photographs and i am surprised there is not a lot about these images online. The only words i can find to describe them is other worldly. They look like completely different words, like something you would find in science fiction comic. They are just amazing. What i liked about these is the way he has used light and shadows to create the illusion of above and below, in the first 2. He has also used composition and perspective to make you feel like you are inside the world its self. I like...

ArtMode

Search This Blog