Friday, 25 December 2009

Lynx Postcards

Recently I went to the pictures for Orange Wednesday's, whilst there I came across these Lynx postcards for Lynx Bullet.


The reason these stood out to me because initially they made me laugh with what's being implied - basically some sort of sexual activity.

The only concern would be, is it right to have these in a cinema? There is children who won't understand the image, maybe the location of where these are used would work better.

Tuesday, 15 December 2009

Anagrams

An idea I had for a poster for the Kitchen of meaning brief was based upon the idea of using anagrams.

When I did this for the title 'The Kitchen of Meaning,' there was over 52,000 results. Most of these didn't make sense but yet on the other hand some of them had a bit of humor in them.

Anagram website - link


Exploiding Type

Whilst working on The Kitchen of Meaning brief, I had an idea of type exploding on the poster.
I researched into this, this are a few examples I came across.

With this piece the question is can you actually realize it's exploding text? It just looks like things cramped together in the centre of the page.

This piece of type I like. It's clean and with the added effects (like the blurred edges) it represents movement. This is also good for the readability - it's clean and easy to read.

This piece I really like. Also it's not the text exploding itself, something is going into the text and then exploding I still like it. I love how powerful it looks, my only concern is how far could you push this with it still being possible to read.

Poster Research

During the brief The Kitchen of Meaning I came across a poster, which I found very clever.

This was the poster;


The poster is for a Greek Literature even with Irvine Welsh.

The thing I like about this is how they've repeated a simple word, but from that word they've made another word (porno) which is more powerful and moving. What was the reason to doing this?

Invite Research

A few examples of types of invitations.
This was for a brief called The Kitchen of Meaning.
The reason why I researched into invitations, was because I had the idea of to create a poster in a posh/stylish way, basically like an invite. This to me represents a good sense of style and swagger.

A very basic design for an invite. If this was handed to me I wouldn't be that interested due to the style of the flyer, doesn't make me feel excited, there's no real 'WOW' factor about the design just very basic.

On this flyer, I like the chosen typography. This represents a posh event. With this type of font I always presume it's a wedding invite which is straight away a special day, which is also something people would be interested in and looking forward to.

A museum invite, never seen anything like this before, was very nice idea. From the small shots lucks a very basic and clean design, nothing to complicated gets the point across straight away. Only criticism is in my opinion the logos are too big especially the one in the bottom
right corner.

Another wedding invite, the downfall to this one is that there's too many type fonts being used in it. On an invite I'd only want to see one type font being used. Also the use of imagery in this design is very basic nor appealing.