Mini-book

Here's a page from my mini-book. I'm planning on adding a texture to the background and changing the colors a bit, but I've got the basic layout for one. I'm also thinking about knocking out the photo of the band so they're just white. I need a lighter color instead of dark, I think. I've got a similar thing going on here I want to emulate on the other pages, but with a lighter color:

Avatar vs. Papyrus

I saw Avatar about three months ago, and Papyrus bothered me. It wasn't until a few days ago that I actually compared the title typeface with Papyrus and noticed they were different.



Papyrus is pink. For some reason, and I'm sure more than a few artists involved with this movie fought it, but Cameron's team used Papyrus as a base, but changes the widths and strokes. This is especially evident in this screenshot:



You can see the "pits" in the letter are identacle, the stroke has just been widened.

I just wish it was something else.

Random 1

Too much? Too random?

Heads of State City Posters

Many of you know I'm doing a daily poster series focused on Lost. It's made me more interested in posters and poster design, and I ran across these very simple, awesome posters yesterday.

They take an iconic part of the city and simplify it, and they're beautiful. It's something I'm trying to do for my Lost posters, so it's very inspirational. I think NYC is my favorite.

A Bit of Poster Process

I've put together two gifs so you can see the very first version I put together on my computer, which I've already posted previously. Here though, they're compared with my final that will be presented on Monday.

The few changes for the first one were mainly just positioning elements and hierarchy, but I also added some coffee stains for texture an "grunge." See for yourself!



The other one had more substantial changes. At first I had used rings of gouche to paint the Who logo, but I didn't like it much so I painted the new logo in Photoshop and imported it. I also changed the typeface from Helvetica to Univers 45. This gives a much more "airy" feel than the heavier Helvetica.

Inspiration Post!

Here's a few things I've enjoyed over the last week. First off, art related, graffiti scrubbing. It's actually cleaning, because the artists remove the dirt in only specific areas to show pictures, instead of painting on the walls. There's a few photos where this is done in Africa here:

http://www.inhabitat.com/2010/03/10/reverse-graffiti-south-african-artists-tag-walls-by-scrubbing-them-clean/

Another fun thing I saw this week was accurate movie posters, from College Humor. It's a great idea, and something I wish I'd thought of. The only really inaccurate one is District 9, which is, in fact, about aliens. But with transparent symbolism.



http://www.collegehumor.com/article:1802286

Lastly, an RBG lamp that I kind of wish I could have.

Who poster number 2

Just threw this together. I'm probably redoing the painted part.