Tuesday 30 September 2008

Kris Roe Poster!!

This was a realy exciting project to take part in as I have spent one whole lot of time listening to the Ataris! So to design a poster for a show that involves the singer guitarist for one of your favourite pop punk bands is just amazing!!!!

Once again with this one I've been looking at Scott Hansen, and got inspired. This was a different process as I had a large amount of detail that needed to be included, pictures, logos, details...so to get creative visually was a part of the fun!!!

This was a cool one to do, because I used some of the techniques I got from a Scott Hansen tutorial with computer arts in photoshop and then some of my own ideas in illustrator. First time I've programme hopped on a piece in ages.

But here are the result as I went through them.

stage one!

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i thought that the rainbow across the image was a step too far, as looked a bit busy, so...

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Now on reflection, the text was all a bit samey, soo...

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will it look better with the added detail?

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maybe not, I thought it was important to look at the text the other way round...

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again it looks different, but I think the continuity of the top text being venue detail, and the price/date info being a different doesn't make good sense.

As always with me, you have to look to black and white...

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I had to change the contrast, as just a clean greyscale switch didn't work, so I upped the contrast a little so it was the details were clearer.

At this point I was happy with any of these really, but I prefered it without the extra detail, but this is work, not art! So it's not about what I think.

I sent it off to the client, and he had one addition and chose this...

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and thats that! I think it looks good and serves the purpose! Infact I am really happy with the end result, and yes I am rather excited about the gig as well!


EDIT....

Same shit different day...

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It would appear that InDesign's JPEG colour bias is different to Photoshop...

Peas oot!
Defy

Links
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The Ataris
Haddonfield! As I love these gays!
A New Day, also because they are awesome boys!

Thursday 25 September 2008

It's all about me!!

Sometimes the most important person is yourself, and I think I had forgotten that, whilst it's not the most important method of getting the word out and social networking anymore, but still an important one, I thought I would give my myspace a spring clean and a fresh new look!

I've been working on a myspace for a label about to re-launch, and learnt lots about coding and rather than just stitching shit together and hoping, I actually learnt what I was doing! So here it comes! The re-jigged re-styled Michael Partridge's myspace!!

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I'll probably make a new gif thing later, they look good!

I am rather happy with the top banner and the new logo's that I did, new font's etc...

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As always click on the lick and it'll look loads better!

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MYspace!