Siz: A4. Should be able to see this on school LCD screen by now. (I want go take a look myself tmr!) This poster is mad for a school-based event organised by the councilors. Since the theme is red and white, I immediately associte it with the typical Japanese School Sports Day, where student body is divided into Red vs White. They will all wear a white/red headband on the sports day and compete against each other...etcetc, that's what I learned from watching anime. lol. Good source of inspiration ^3^
So tomorrow my school will also be doing something similar except that we are wearing red or white shirts. (too bad it's not headband :(
Initially, I wanted the poster to be just red and white, in an attempt to employ the idea I got from a poster in my school last year. I hoped to achieve the similar impact using only two contrasting primary colours and stylised fonts. However, it turned out to be below my expectation...(lol!)
I went to look for inspiration from my picture bank on the disk. It serves the purpose of storing images which interests me in any ways (composition, style, color choice etc). However, since I don't have the habit of naming the file properly, it's quite difficult to trace back the original site or artist at times when I'm really interested in a certain style.
By the way, the face is mouse-drawn in photoshop! XD
Size of the canvas is to scale: A4. The font used is Carnivalee Freakshow, took some time to find it...oh it's also used in one of the posters for L4D2. I wanted the circus-like feeling because of the word 'carnival'. (haha I actually managed to rush this out together with the brochure xD) Grungy pattern paper were also used to add onto the 'ancient' feeling.
I favoured some of my initial edits in the early stages but sadly they weren't chosen :0
This poster is quite old already. It's done by a group of people so I can't exactly claim it as my work but I am still documenting it because I like the design, for my personal reference too. lol.
This poster was made last year to publicise my class' drama item: Flying Solo, it is something like a musical surrounding the storyline of a girl who dreamt of becoming a dancer.
This gives reason to the swirly calligraphy font, I can't remember who came up with the idea haha. The part that makes this poster significant to me will be the background, the transient and subtle use of colour matched my impression of the play.
One defect will be the awkward font and spacing of the words below. It looks too crowded and squeezed in that corner of the whole poster. As black is a rather dominant and obvious colour, the viewer's attention tends to be drawn towards the cluster of words down there instead of individual keyword in the sentence. If they were spaced out and aligned, the viewer would have a better impression of the details when they are trying to recall and not just recalling a lump of words. A synopsis could also be included to arouse their curiosity for the play.
As I rarely attempted a style like this, I think it would be good to just keep a copy of it for my future reference :)
I happened to receive a request from my teacher to design the cover for a sport event brochure. I thought it would be a good chance to practice and build up this portfolio so i started designing after my tests. It's also quite cool to have your own design printed for the whole school ^3^)/ Cheers!
I started off by brainstorming and finding inspirations online, newspaper would be a good source as well. Then I came across hurdles and high jump etcetc...the typical sport items. Initially, I actually thought of using high jump as my main subject matter since I was quite fascinated by its aerodynamic body movements. However, as I go on to experiment with expressing my ideas it didn't turn out as impactful as I wanted so I gave up on this idea in the end...
source: google pic
Then I went back to my first stage, looking for ideas online again. This time decided to try on hurdling! Actually there's much more images that I came across haha but here is just some important ones. I like the composition in the second picture! The other one is rather action-based and most sport photos are like that: meaning sideview of the competitor jumping over hurdles.
source: google pic
From here I proceed to the next stage: planning composition. As I don't really have much time to experiment with different ideas, I went straight into working on the idea of silhoutte. I learnt my lesson not to start working only one or two nights before the deadline.
