Designing my poster.

 Yesterday, i came across one of Andy Warhol's famous poster on the baseball team "Reds". The poster, was to advertise the team and sport, and Warhol, had a passion for the sport. The picture consists of one of the players from the team "Pete Rose", duplicated four times, in different corners, with different colour backgrounds. Also the badge of the team is in every bottom corner of the picture, along with the players name.

Now it was time to think of a simular design i could make, with a different  badge, logo and character. I then thought, what do i have a passion for, which is motorbikes, and then i decided, to base my poster on my idol "Valentino Rossi", who rides in the Moto GP, which i watch every sunday.


First, i got a decent resolution picture of him off the net.

I then had to separate the bike and him from the background, which i decided to use photoshop for.






This is the image placed in photoshop. After using the magnetic lassoo tool, to trace around the character, to separate the bit i need and did not (background).











This image is of the character, placed in a new layer, with out his background. Simply just copied the selected lassoo into new layer (Apple J).











 This pictures show me creating the background squares, the titles, that will be placed next to the rider and his name.

 All i simply did here, is create the boxes, using the rectangle tool (U). Then using the paint bucket tool to fill in the colour. Then more rectangle tools to create the black background that surrounds the name of the team in the moto gp series (Yamaha). Then lastly using the text tool (T) to create the titles of the team and the name of the rider (Valentino Rossi, Yamaha).









 

After positioning of the above picture, all i had to do is place the rider, and then the badge.
 I had to find the Yamaha badge, and import it into Photoshop. Picture below shows this; Note that this is the genuine colour of the badge. 

 Here you see that i have used the magic wand tool to auto-select the background of the badge, where you can see the "running ants" indicating what i have selected. Then i simply chose the colour of the backgrounds i have in the poster, using the eye dropper tool, then clicking on the background of the badge, with the paintbucket tool.

Lastly, after colouring in the badge, four different colours, i just had to place them onto the poster.







Giving me the end result as.......

 Lastly all i have to do is take a JPEG format of this file, to my local printing shop "Wasps Printers" and print this file onto an A3 size page, to give it that extra poster effect.

Box Development

Yesterday, I started to create and build my box.

 As you can see i have created all my sides and bottom of the box. I did this by cutting my wood, with an electric saw, filing down all edges to give smoothness. Then i had to drill holes in the corners to screw all the box together. Now all i have to do is cut the top of my box to size, and place hinges on it, to enable opening and closing of the box. Then finally spray paint the red band all the way round the box, using masking tape to block areas that I don't want to colour, and use stencils to show writing on the box in the specific places.  

Andy Warhol

After choosing my chosen artist/designer, i have been looking at some of his work, deciding on some ideas for my box.

His famous piece on Campbell's soup can, i have actually found the box, that the soup can are found it.

I am thinking, maybe, create my box as a replica of this, with the simular fonts and type used in the actual box. However, i think i am going to possible make my box out of wood.

This is a good design to have as a sort of wrapping paper, that would surround my box. I would modify mine slightly though, and have a different person on the front, i.e myself. Then all i have to do is take a photo of myself, place it in Photoshop, and change the channel, giving me this distinct colour effect.

New ideas and picking a topic!

After being set this assignment, i was fairly confused as what to do and what topic to pick. I had looked through all the topics, and nothing appeared to be interesting to me. After speaking to people, i found out that i didn't necessarily have to choose a topic on the brief, but i would have to check with my tutor, if i was allowed to do my project on this topic.
After looking at a range of other topics to base my project on, i come up with basing my project on pop art. There are several reasons for me choosing this. The first reason is because I found this topic a lot more interesting, and more 'my sort of thing'. I also did a very simular sort of project on a chosen artist back in my secondary school, which was on pop art. I chose Richard Hamilton, and i really enjoyed creating that project.

After look at a number of artists that are involved in pop art, my most favourites are Richard Hamilton, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.

After basing my previous project on Richard Hamilton, i am more obliged to base my assignment on Andy Warhol or Roy Lichtenstein.

Below is numerous pictures, showing some of their art work:

Andy Warhol:

 

Roy Lichtenstein:

                                                           

New Project- Time Capsule

I have been set a new project, which is to create a hand made box, that is a sort of Time Capsule. It will be based on a designer or Design Movement. In the brief their are a list of Historical Periods and Designers. These are as followed beneath:
Art Noveau
1910's flat colours
Machine Age- 1910's-1930's
Constructivists
Bauhaus
American 40's-50's
Post Modernism
The Memphis Group
Machine Stamp
Handmade

Each category has a list of desingers, within this topic area as well, that i can choose from.

I have to completely make the box hand made, which will include all my own designs over it, i.e. wrapping paper, print etc... It will consist of an A4 Posters and Leaflets, Some post cards, and an A5 booklet, which will include my essay on it.
Lastly, i will be using 3 main software packages to create this project. These are:


Adobe In Design (.indd)

Adobe Phostshop (.psd)

Adobe Illustrator (.ai)









I will have to be well aware of time management in this project, as it is divided up by the christmas holidays, so i will have to get as much work done in class, so i am not distracted at home with any luxuries.

Final 3D Boxes

Today, i finally created my 3D boxes, with a drop shadow, to give the picture definition.

This picture shows the front of my box, the top and right hand sides.

This picture shows the back of my box, the left and bottom hand sides.

















NOW I AM BLATANTLY FINISHING CRIT, AND THEN GOING DOWN THE PUB!

My overall net

Here is the finished net for my product...