Havana's latest

Here is the most updated version of my poster. I am still playing with the idea of adding a little color. The designer that I have usually sticks to black and white, but on occasion will throw in a splash of color. I am thinking about changing the color of the "eat" but, I do kind of like how subtle it is as is.

Any suggestions would be great.

Alex beltechi: Camelot

yes it worked. Alright i finally have my work on the blog. Not going to lie this has been a way hard but fun project. I learn a ton of new things in photoshop and i really am happy with how it turned out.

Farmer John

Here is my poster. Is it final....ummm not really, but it is sooooo close..well maybe kind of close.

Anyways Alexis Marcou breaks up his image and then incorporates his font with his image and that is what I end up doing with my poster. I took a picture of a farmer and then emulated the font with how the image looked. Like I said before, this is pretty close but yet I think that there is something that I can do even more. OH! I will also add my font alphabet in too but it might take me a day or two :)

Adolfo Correa and My Mona Lisa Font - By Devo

My Challenge was to combine Adolfo Correa, and my Mona Lisa Font.

After I started my project, with my painted background... and Mona Lisa face sketch... I found this picture by Adolfo... it became the inspiration on the last stage of my final poster.


I love how my font turned out. I do not like how my font looks on my alphabet above. I wanted to keep the font ruff, to reflect a renaissance hand style type that I was going for. Turning that into a digital image, messed it up on the alphabet. The ruggedness turned into just ugly stuff... But how it looks on the poster is how my font should look. I am very happy with how it turned out there.

I painted the background on canvas, trying to emulate the unfinished drawings/paintings of DaVinci. I think that turned out well. I used what I could see in the Mona Lisa landscape as my reference, and a few of his hand drawings as style reference.

My take on Adolfo is that he likes Visual Confetti, not my favorite. By trying his style though, I created something totally different then I ever would have created on my own. I am very happy with how it turned out. I finished by cropping my image, I think the use of two thirds rule, and open space on the top left... was just what the finished poster needed.

HAVANA

My font is based on Havana Cuba; super obvious.

I was inspired by cigar packaging and baseball uniforms.

I wanted it to be chunky and reminiscent of the early half of the 1900's when Havana was in its Prime.

As I was doing research on Havana I found out that it was the place to be. There were more theaters, casinos, and live entertainment then New York back in the day. The zoo in Havana was also a main attraction. After the whole political thing went down in Cuba, Havana pretty much fell apart. Many Cuban's were struggling to put food on the table. To poke fun at the situation a local changed some of the signs in the zoo from "don't feed the animals" to "don't eat the animals."

My designer is Si Scott, who does these really elaborate and intricate typographic posters with a lot of line weight variation. I thought that it might be interesting to try and capture some of the variation in line weight with the different shadows and how they contrast the bold weight of the cutout design itself. Not quite there yet. Any thoughts would be great.

Type poster and alphabet

My alphabet is based on Johnny Appleseed.

I wanted it to look twiggy and sort of wild the way branches are.

My inspiration for my poster is based on Colin Lee's Dulce & Gabana. I wanted to include some flourishes, but not so many that it becomes overwhelming.

SOUTHERN BELLE & Sumeco:

Hand-drawn typeface: Southern Belle

And here's my poster. What do you think?