Visual Research - Studio Brief 04 - OUGD406

Speaking from Experience.

I have chosen to look at current posters that use similar styles to which I would like my posters to represent.

Choosing to look at only posters that represent a word or phrase in a visual way to gather a healthy body of things to reference back on during my idea generation.

Tata&Friends

The following posters made by tata&friends represent rock bands by using effective iconography which is booth clever and imaginative as visuals.

I adore the layout they have used in these posters and can imagine myself using something similar myself. Not only would they work great as posters but they would work great as a book. This is something else I could use to represent my own designs. Colour choice is a bit of a weird one, I can't quite understand why they used yellow, but then again the versatility of such posters any colour would work.

Type choice is great, I think that it ties in with the style of the icons very effectively. Nice and minimal with plenty of space between elements also gives more appeal as it is not too overwhelming with content.

Musical iconography

By using famous scenes of album covers and video's, this designer has used an icon format to create some recognisable posters.

I think the main point of the style of poster I am trying to create is outlawing the need to have a title or explain the image more by putting a text on it. I think with a bit of analytics skill, which all creatives should have, you can come to a conclusion of what the posters is about just buy looking at the icon.

rastereYes

By using only linage. The designer under the name of restereYes has represented movies in such a way that would be difficult to differentiate, purely by placement and colour of the lines is the only thing that separates these ultra-minimalist movie posters.

I like the idea of using only straight lines but I think it would be lost in translation and conceptually speaking would not make much sense.

Making my designs look visually appealing to aspiring designers might is difficult as I want to engage them and make them want to read into the lines, these posters don't necessarily make me want to do this.