Sunday, October 23, 2011

Love this cover!

If you aren't a member of designers.mx you should really join. I am seriously inspired by all of the work that people are putting up. You do have to be invited to be a "mixer" but thats ok, because you can just listen to the mixes while looking at all of the beautifully designed covers. 

[My goal for the next few months is to get to be invited}

I am really into this cover/and the mix by Justin David Cox.  From a glance it appears to be a photo, but NUH UH! its a hand drawn image with a sweet burlap texture. very smart.


Wednesday, October 5, 2011

The Graphic Imperative: Advocacy Posters

 “The poster is the prime field for experimenting with visual language. It is the scene of changing ideas and aesthetics, of cultural, social and political events.” – (Pierre Bernard, French designer | Grapus)


Our first project of the semester was to create a pair of advocacy posters. Possible themes for the project included dissent, liberation, racism, sexism, human rights, civil rights, environmental and health concerns, AIDS, war, literacy, and tolerance.

Among our research resources was an on-line exhibition The Graphic Imperative: International Posters for Peace, Social Justice, and the Environment, 1965-2005 (www.thegraphicimperative.org). The Graphic Imperative was a select retrospective of forty years of international sociopolitical posters. The 111 posters in this exhibition emphasized the issues of our turbulent times and endeavor to show the social, political, and aesthetic concerns of many cultures and divergent political realities.

Of the pair of advocacy posters that I was to design one used type and image and the other used type as image. I was to chose: 1) the actual advocacy group that would sponsor the message 2) the specific issue/message of the poster 3) the targeted audience that the poster seeks to address and 4) propose the remedy or action for the specific issue/problem.


typography as image version

typography & image version