Repetition and Color: Dynamic Gig Posters Made From Simple Sketches.

Create an effective poster design for your favorite local band or local event.

Research your gig. What is the band's style and sound? How do you plan on incorporating their style into your own style? We will be going through some methods and excersizes I uses to get some ideas on paper. Show some idea sketches and examples of your stylistic approach.

Once we have our concepts and subject matter sketched, we will take our sketches and use tools in Adobe illustrator to create simple vector art. It's always interesting to see the transition from the hand to the computer screen. Show the class your before and after.

We are going to be thinking about color, pattern, repetition and typography as it applies to our style. Some of the tools we will be covering in this tutorial are pathfinder, envelope distort, and clipping masks. We will also, think about an interesting or clean layout to present the content harmoniously with the design. Finally, we want to make sure our promoter has the files they need to promote the show.

Show the class what you came up with and how you incorporated color and repetition using the tools we learned.

Suus Lemmen

Graphic Designer

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