[Project 4] Checkpoint 3/8
First Sketches
I knew that for my poster series I wanted all the posters to be minimalistic, but still capture the “essences” of the artists so just one look at the individual posters would tell viewers which artist is represented by which poster.
For the xx, I knew I wanted to use their iconic “x” somewhere on the poster. Everything else could be added in to complement the “x”.
For all the posters, the image placeholder would be the logo for my festival, Spring Daze. The first poster kind of mimics the xx’s album covers, in that there is just one x in the middle, with a black background. The only problem I can see with the first poster is that I’m not sure where the actual band name would go. However, if the x is enough to get the message across, I think it should be okay.
The second poster plays off of the “x” idea more, except that I now use two x’s to both display the artist name but still give the 50-feet impression to viewers.
For the last one, I tried a 3-column grid, with most of the information in the middle column, and the “x” now scaled considerably larger compared to the other two posters. During our class in the Rare and Fine Books room, the curator mentioned to not be afraid of scale, so I thought I could play around with that idea in the last poster.
For the Purity Ring poster series, I was inspired by the set up they have whenever they perform live:
They have two curtains of light on either side of the stage, and a setup in the middle that functions as both an instrument and a lighting device.
The background for this series would probably also be all black, and the graphics would be a light color. The first poster was inspired by the circle in the backdrop of their live setup, but also because they feature a circle/circles on their website and on their most recent album. This poster would pretty much split a two-column grid.
For the second poster, I thought of keeping the circle but also adding some graphics that would act as the curtain of lights and frame all the information on the poster.
The last sketch features the instrumental light setup. I like this one because from afar fans would know that it is a poster advertising Purity Ring, but also it is interesting enough to grab someone’s attention from afar even if they didn’t know who they were.
Keeping with the all-black-background theme, I also tried to make the Ta-ku posters more minimalistic. The first two posters feature Ta-ku’s logo, although for the first poster I’m thinking of also adding a floral background that is reminiscent of his EP album covers.
The second poster models the layout that he has for the EP album cover above. Since this layout would be extremely minimalistic I might add in some of the floral themes to accent the poster.
The last poster would just feature one big flower in the middle and have the rest of the information complement the flower.
I also drew up some preliminary sketches on the logo for my festival:
