Car Poster Comps

Here are my ten comps of my car poster.  I had a bunch of ideas, but i ended up liking the Classic Car Show the best, and so i just stuck with it through the majority of my sketches and all of these comps.  Since it was a car show i knew it would probably be in some center somewhere, so i just picked a cool city and gave it a name.  I think Colorado was a good choice, because then i started playing around with the idea of mountains in the background.  The top left design was chosen to be my final design, and i'm not complaining because i really enjoyed that one.   The person who reviewed my comps said it had some good balance.  The use of color in my comps is almost non existant because i went to do my comps with black markers in hand and then it hit me.  I gathered up some colors and started to work.  First of all i can't draw a car to save my life, so i drew some nice outlined cars in the same color as the real thing.  As for the mountains, i hinted at there appearance.  I think this poster would look good made up with water colors, or at least the mountains.  Well, i now know what im working on, time to get to work. . . 

Chili Cook Off Poster

Well, here it is, my chili cook off poster.  I was no walk in the park, well just a short walk.  Laying this guy out was no fun and inking him was even more of a hassle.  Once completed, i mounted and then scanned it in.  Made the chili pepper and bolts in illustrator, and than layed out the text in InDesign.  No doubt i'll probably forget to turn in those files for some time, maybe i'll just set this as my homepage so i can't forget!!!   

Ah, what a fun poster.  I didn't really want to do this one, it was mostly just filler.  But now that ive been FORCED to do it, i really like it.  the title text is so fun!!  The "bolts" were fun to make and look pretttty coool!!!  I wish i could've done more with the rest of the text, but i only have so much space to work with.

Chili poster critique

I thought this design followed all of the parameters of the assignment: no bleed, appropriate illustrations, and even though no information is given in the comp. it can easily fit into this layout.

The first thing i noticed about this design was that the title was missing, it instead had a big attention getter: "got chili?"  I thought it was pretty effective in terms of getting attention, but then what are people supposed to do?  the actual name of the event is absent, if it were placed under the attention getter, i think it would work a lot better.

Another thing that really caught my eye was the illustrations.  I thought they worked really well.  Also, the placement of text and illustrations gives the reader some direction, the text slides from the top left to bottom right.  It's just very easily understandable and the illustrations are fun to look at.  

The only thing left to mention is the lack of text in the comp.  It isn't really a big issue, i guess i just would've like to have seen it in here to know exactly where everything is going to go.  But since there is space blocked out, type can be easily placed in those areas. 

So all in all, i enjoyed this design, it would be awesome with a few tweaks here and there, hope the final thing looks good!  

Helvitica: Friend, Foe, or Font?

Finally remembering to write about the film we watched: "Helvitica"  I can honestly say that i liked it.  It was a pretty straightforward documentary, but it was funny, insightful and really appealed to my interests.  I really thought it was amazing how much around me uses that, it's a pretty plain font, my eye just passes over it.  Really effective in giving directions and for use in street signs.