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Jean Carlu - BOTH BARRELS - 1941 Poster Fix

[iamalexanderwalch]

Jean Carlu - Kubistische Zahnpastawerbung aus 1927. Das besondere war damals, daß die Pasta überhaupt nicht auftaucht. Ort: @museumgestaltung #jeancarlu #gellefreres #altereklame #werbeplakat #kubismus #art #design #lithographie #frenchdesign #1927 (hier: Museum für Gestaltung Zürich) https://www.instagram.com/p/B6pfcfWIdXV/?igshid=1k5myynq0w3xo

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‘Say Something’ poster series + Evaluation

Over the past few days of planning this work, I have refined my digital skills and even my hand-rendering ability. I did this through my research responses and idea generation stages. These are both abilities that I will be able to take forward to the projects to come, and even beyond that. I feel that even in the short period of three days, I am a lot more confident at responding to designers through the process of drawing as when responding to the two artists that influenced my ideas I pieced together elements I liked to populate two sketchbook pages. Through designing and creating this series of posters, I have explored a new style of working, although digital, each poster was created in an ‘Art Deco’esque style. 

On Tuesday, I looked into a range of artists and designers who’s work inspired me, from Jean Chassaing (Art Deco Posters) & Jean Carlu (distinct styled posters, to; Malika Favre who uses a digital process to create simplistic, vibrant and modern looking pieces. I particularly like her ability to blend large groups of people effortlessly, to create a flowing and interesting piece of work. My main influence for these posters however was Jean Carlu, his anonymous human form style enticed and interested me as it was unusual and geometric which is something I believe looks amazing.

After looking into these artists, I responded to two of them as they greatly inspired my ideas. This then allowed me to take my ideas forward with the process of thumbnail designs, focussing on scale and composition. I created an initial four designs, then took a step back and resolved them to develop them further. After creating the thumbnails I took them onto the mac to complete them.

I found when composing the posters on Illustrator that finding the right balance of scale and layout was a difficult task, however through peer feedback I was able to achieve a selection of posters that I am reasonably proud of. I particularly feel the gradients and human forms within the posters worked very well. However, it did not completely achieve the effect I initially desired. I feel as though if I were to do these posters again, exploring the process of screen print would be beneficial, and create a much more authentic effect.

Overall, I am quite pleased with these poster designs and will definitely implement this style of working within my future works, in and outside of college.