Poster experiments

This is the original photo of a rubbing I done over a stencil, I put it in Photoshop and picked the letters that I wanted.

Then I changed the levels, making the black and white stronger, and moved the image to Indesign.

I added some text and a photo to the poster.

And then experimented with colour. I think the blue cyan looks best. The magenta doesn't really suit because he's male and the white title is lost on the yellow.

Then I started to play around with the layout of the poster.

I think the one above (left) is the best.

Using the same title. I changed the colour, and inserted an image of some text about Crouwel  in the background.

Looks a bit like Si Scotts work

These are made from paper, thought they were really cute, and I'm loving all the swirls and girly-ness!

Si Scott

I have some different fonts cut out from magazines in my sketchbook and some of them have swirls on the ends. Padraic suggested looking at some of Si Scotts work, which has swirls incorporated.

Scotts work is really impressive, it looks really complex, but the text always stays the main focus.

Tutorials

I came across this site which has some nice Photoshop tutorials. I'm going to put it here and hopefully i'll remember to come back and try them out at a later date.

I particularly liked this one

And this one. The tutorial for this one had some nice steps in it, reminding you to choose a theme, define composition structure (grids) and other wee reminders.

Superhero

Thought this was quite nice, especially the P and H it seems to catch your eye when you look at it.

Hand type

These are some photos from todays class the three complete banners and then my individual part.

Stefan Sagmeister

Ive looked at Stefan Sagmeisters work before, i like how he creates it out of natural objects. Its a bit like our project which we had to find natural typography.