At least that's what Google translates "Die Kraft Liegt in Dir" as. I like this poster design for the simple, peaceful and minimalist look; the softness of the city background and the subtle ripped paper/rubbed paper edges. Design by David Jesus Vignolli.
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Showing posts with label poster. Show all posts
The Power is in You
Command Posters from Atmostheory
Love these simple and clever posters using commonly used commands. It's funny how embedded these commands are — I didn't even have to stop and think "Cmd-S" = Save, I just read it straight. From Atmostheory.
Everything You Ever Wanted to Know about Typography: Ligature, Loop & Stem Poster
Everything you ever wanted to know about the the actual parts and pieces of a font is on this elegant typography poster from FPO.
No Coast Craft-o-Rama Poster
Folk art with sophisticated color scheme and a little grunge: poster from No Coast Craft-o-Rama event.
Conserve Rain Water Poster
An eye-catching poster. I like the contrast of the bold umbrella icon and the subtle cloud texture.
Type Heavy Posters
Sometimes the challenge of focusing on the type with little or no other graphics can make a poster even more interesting.
Inspiring Posters from Communication Arts
Here are some of my favorite posters from the most recent Communication Arts Advertising Annual. I love the Grammy poster's use of type to create an illustration, the clever Photoshop twist in the Minnesota Zoo poster, the rich hand-sketched texture of the Harley poster and the cool blue grace of the Shams-e-Tabrizi Festival poster.
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Bocage Shoes
I love the beauty, delicacy and amount of detail in these two illustrations for Bocage Shoes by Vania Zouravliov. I only saw one of these ads/illustrations in Communication Arts but Adfeast has both posters.
Northern Ohio Railway Museum posters
I seem to be on a vintage kick. I like the vintage styling of these posters and it's interesting to dissect the posters and notice all of the elements (fonts, colors, arrangement, styling) that contribute to this feel. I'd like to figure out how to create the light rays from the trains in the first poster.
Seattle poster
This Seattle city neighborhoods poster shows how inventive one can get with just typograpphy. Ork Posters also has other city neighborhood posters available.
Incidentally, Seattle is on my mind because I'm going there tomorrow. I'll be back to writing here in about a week when I get back.
Afghan Star poster
This documentary poster stood out for me because it's so subtle. The colors are subdued, the vector art and ornamentation minimalist, the font appropriate for the topic. The design ties together all of these pieces and becomes a total greater than the sum of its parts. Beautiful, simple, full of impact.
Ocean's Twelve
I know this movie came out quite a while ago but this is still a great poster design. I love the overhead perspective, the simplicity of form and color, and movement in this design.
HistoryShots & American Political History Poster
In my search for vintage design inspiration, I stumbled onto HistoryShots, a beautifully designed site that "creates high-quality information graphics that provide context to interesting subjects, time periods and events." I like the muted colors and design of this History of the Political Parties poster. It's fascinating to see the twists and turns the American political parties have taken.
Indie Film Posters
Last week Smashing Magazine had a post featuring 40 indie film posters. These three were my favorites:
- Zoo, for the startling and unusual cropping of the horse
- Paris, Je T'aime, for creative use of the Eiffel tower, subtle background texture and the typography border
- Taxi to the Dark Side, for texture, composition and use of the US flag as a shadow
Perspective Text Movie Poster
I like the white space and perspective text on this poster. I figured the perspective text would be a quick and easy trick. Well, it wasn't easy, at least for me. I tried a lot of different things in both Photoshop and Illustrator before finally finding a series of steps in Illustrator that mostly worked. I'm really curious how the designers made this one because this is my best shot (at least with the time I have available) and it's doesn't match the original 100%.
Here are the steps I used in Illustrator to create the perspective text:
- Type my text in and color it.
- Apply perspective to both pieces of text on a purely eyeballing it basis. The Illustrator way to distort in perspective is to select the Free Transform tool, start dragging a corner handle and then hold Shift+Option+Command and drag down.
- For the smaller text: Rotate 29 degrees, Shear -30 with an angle of 29
- For the larger text: Rotate -25 degrees, Shear 40 with an angle of -25
- Add figures and other elements.
Almost Black and White Movie Poster
This poster caught my eye with it's strong contrast, simple layout and use of black and white in a sea of color posters. But once I looked closer, I saw that the black and white of Kate's face is actually has a very slight sepia tint and the scene in her sunglasses has a slight bluish tint. Gotta love subtleties like that.
I often use MyFonts What the Font to discover the name of fonts I see used in publications or posters. It works great if the letters aren't touching but has problems with letters that overlap or are very thin. But this time, I just eyeballed the font as Helvetica Neue and it's pretty close.
This was a pretty straight-forward recreation:
- Black background.
- Insert type and apply gradient to title
- Type some random overlay text. Add a layer mask and render clouds. Use the paintbrush to erase parts of the image I didn't want.
- Insert a woman's face, use CS3's Image > Adjustments > Black & White feature to get the black and white look I want. Crop it with a layer mask.
- Duplicate face and use splatter to roughen the image a little. Opacity at 40%.
- Create selections for both the left and right of the sunglasses and insert image of the mountains. Adjust color as necessary with Hue Sat.
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