Unit 4 - Communication of Art and Design (illustrator)

Messing with text

HAIKU poems

illustrator logos 

pear logo

honey bee logo

Illustrator drawing

Visual recipes

Research

Development

Final piece

Music Festival

Poster Research

Fonts

These are some of the fonts I found and liked. I already have an idea of what genre of music festival I want to do and I think these fonts will suit it.

idea

I’m going to do a festival poster based around Dubstep music.

I want it to look very techy and futuristic, with a club light sort of background, dark and bright lights.

I want to use big blocky faded type of text for the heading and the main writing to look electro. ( similar to fonts on mood board )

I will search up similar posters to see the type of style other festivals use and find cd covers and videos of bands who specialize in that music.

I am going to call the festival, “BRISDUB 14”
I will draw a few different ideas i have, find out what i like and what goes think well. i will mix and match the ideas  to make the final version on the computer.

dubstep moodboard

The style of dubstep based artwork, as shown above consists of dark colours mixed with a few bright, glowing colours ( like club lights ).
It can have a techy look to it, which suits the genre as most dubstep is made on computers.


sketched ideas for poster

Development of ideas on computer

With this poster i added 2 ideas into one and added a few extra ideas into it, like the arms of the crowd from the lettering.

Design Report - Damon Ginters

Designing these posters was fun to make and I learnt a few new techniques when making them that became very useful.

One of the things I learnt to do was how to make the backgrounds fade into two different colours, which I used in both of my final designs.

I have learnt that its best to use as little fonts as possible which I did with my second poster, only using two type fonts.

When I was researching posters I noticed that the ones that used more bright colours caught my eye more than others, so I used more bright and noticeable colours when designing my final posters.

I sadly enough didn’t get to do as much research as I would have liked to do as I wasn’t able to do any over the holidays because I had no Wi-Fi for a month, but I did do my best when coming back to college to catch up.

When a was able to do research however I searched up some posters. I chose music festivals so that’s what kind of posters I searched. I tried to keep it in the Bristol area and found a few what I altogether liked and some which I liked certain aspects.

I wanted to base my festival posters around Dubstep and researched into two things, type fonts that went with the genre and dubstep inspired images which were put into a moodboard.

I used the research I did to help me within the designing, using a few of the fonts and using the images I acquired to inspire me.

I drew a few ideas I had mixing up a few of the images around dubstep I found and converted them into a poster look, putting my own spin to it.

I chose two for my final posters and started developing. The first poster came out how I originally wanted , with few minor changes from comments, making the 14 into a 2014 so viewers could understand it meant a year, i also changed the background shade colour and direction.

The second idea I ended up merging another to it and putting an extra idea I had to it. I think it came out better than they would do alone. With the extra idea to make letters into a crowd looked good and added to the feeling of being in a club raving with the base.

I would of liked to develop my techniques more. So if I was able to do it again I could make it look more detailed. I would of liked to make a logo for the festival to put on to make it look more real.

I would like to find out how to make text and images to fade, as one of my ideas I was unable to do and had to be changed because of it.
i would like to learn how to make the background into a cloudy look instead of the fading.

I think  the posters went well and I have had some good comments. I have had some bad comments which I would liked to of worked on, but sadly enough there wasn’t enough time.

I have made a few changes to both of te posters, mainly my first and final design.

My first one I rearranged everything at first and changed some of the text.

After I changed the background colour and added music bars into the design.

I like the last one the most and made it my final design.

My second poster I didn't change hugely, mainly a rearangement of everything and then after I added in sound bars and changed the fade of the background .

I like my final poster and I think from last week I have improved on it and made it better from my mistakes.