Introduction:
I designed a vintage poster from the 60s. This poster advertises a band called 30 Seconds to Mars with one of their famous logos, the bird.Description:
Inspiration |
a band poster since my life is intertwined with music. I decided to highlight 30 Seconds to Mars since their band culminates several different logos and philosophies that a vintage poster would illuminate. I searched many styles of vintage posters and discovered they include geometric patterns, bright colors, mixed media, and curvy words. I incorporated these designs in my sketches and poster.
first draft |
I started by making the basic design of the bird in Illustrator. I image traced a picture of the bird and placed a teal background behind the bird. Then I changed some of the colors and deleted the extra white background. I saved this as an image and imported it into Photoshop. Then I placed a geometric pattern behind the picture of the image and blended them together with the vivid mask to bring out the retro colors of the 60s. I also created a new layer where I painted and blurred bright colors, which can be seen over the black text "30 Seconds to Mars"to incorporate more vintage colors.
final |
I noticed many band posters have curvy text, so when I added my text, I found a font that didn't have clean and cut edges. Then I used the warp tool to make the words even curvier. For example, I used the fishbowl warp on the number 30. Then I added some mixed media to the background. I placed a newspaper into Photoshop, then cut out, copied, and pasted little sections of the newspaper. I placed them around the top of the bird's wing and flattened the layers so I could apply the same effects to all of the small pieces of newspaper. I then deleted the original newspaper and used the eraser tool to blend and fade the newspaper pieces into the background.
However, I was not finished yet. I had peer revisions, where I discovered I should improve some aspects of my poster. I decided to move the text away from the edge of the paper and add some more vintage textures.
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