Movie Poster - KATYN

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Portfolio layout

Junior Portfolio Layout.

Collaboration

A collaborative effort my Milena and myself. I really like the way it turned out. I feel that my illustrations and Milena's handwritten type compliment each other.

business card

A simple idea I threw together since I didn't like anything else I was coming up with.
This popped into my head and I went with it.
Seems it fits in with the theme of my work lately.

self brand idea

Self-branding is such a strange process.
This is an idea I had a little while ago. A take on Art Chantry's work I saw once.
I don't think this totally speaks for what I want to portrait, but I tried to keep it simple.

I thought about the original idea more, and thought a series based on a different idea might have more of an effect.

Idea.

This is an idea I had for the poster project, but wasn't sure how to do it. (figured to go photograph it now). The first image is a stack of (roughly) 2,000 pages - our new Health Plan that most of us have not really bothered to look into.
The second image is a stack of Harry Potter books totaling (roughly) 4,000 pages. Most nerds and pre-teens have read these books.
I'm aware that the health reform is probably written in legal jargon we'd be hard-pressed to understand, but I found it funny. Are we really going to trust the "spark notes" version of the health plan we read on news sites?
The idea I had for the text was either the number of pages, or "fantasy" and "reality." But I didn't really like either enough to commit to them.

18 x 24 Poster

For this semester

Plans for this semesters work.

Poster idea 4

Continuing the band/tour poster ideas, this was the only one that was done on the computer alone.I want to expand on this, and am sketching up ideas for it. I will post later to show progress. My idea was taking the organic feel of the music along with the obviously (in some cases) layered and textured effects and combining them.

For an idea of the bands/the direction, check these links.
OXBOW - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36X67CTUQrU
JESU - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0PYwPMnUCM
Bohren & der club of gore - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_WWX6Yfu2g
ISIS - http://www.myspace.com/isis

Infographic Poster (from November)

I set out to create a loud, obnoxious infographic about music and noise. My only debate is whether the font fits, or whether the colors compete too much with the image. Perhaps I've been looking at it for too long.

Poster #3

I really wanted to experiment with handwritten, illustrated text and came up with this.
Contrary to popular belief, my only inspiration for this was 4 years of sobriety, cheesy comedies and a little bit of P-Funk.

Took me forever to settle on the colors.

Oxbow poster

This poster originally had a hand-written quote all around it, but I didn't like how it came out. I experimented with a different style than I usually do, but too many different ideas made the poster look unfinished and "wrong", rather than the idea I originally had.

I like this, but I feel that something else needs to be done with it. Either go over the type in the background more or make it smaller and add a lot to it. The idea I have is to take the idea of he album name NARCOTIC STORY and add the song names as someone would write them in a journal. After some experimenting, I feel that this fits better than anything thus far, but I'm willing to look into more fonts.

Not trying to make this appear too "cartoony," while retaining the illustrative quality.

Tour Poster 1

This is an idea for a poster I got while looking through a book of Japanese artwork that a friend got me. I chose to do a hand-written type of ink text to the poster to try to give that idea of japanese calligraphy without using Japanese characters.

It's a poster for an experimental NYC band
bloody panda (http://www.myspace.com/bpanda),
with Isis (http://www.myspace.com/isis),
Sun for Miles (my band - www.myspace.com/sfmdoom),
and a friends band - Echoes of Yul (http://www.myspace.com/echoesofyul).
Not a real tour, but one can dream.

I was going to add color to the illustrations, but I ended up really liking the tri color (black, white, red) approach. Any input is appreciated.

New BW / Type only posters

Update* I added this ^ one because the first was bothering me for some reason. I like this new font I tried out (mamma gamma), but I don't know if the arrangement is working well enough.

So I wanted to take a different approach for these.
The first two (what does your day...) I like the most, but I'm not sure if the lines of the circles are competing with"DAY" in the second one too much. For the third, I wanted to keep it simple, to fit with the quoted text. The bar of text in the background in the last one are all the performers playing this show. I tried to keep all of these posters from overloading the page with huge type since I usually do that and wanted to explore different methods.