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My project for course: Introduction to Minimalist Graphic Design
My project for course: Introduction to Minimalist Graphic Design
by Anton Luzan @antonpavlovichnechehov
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antonpavlovichnechehov
I have created post on music open-air festival "Rock on lake". I started with basic forms like a tringle and a
square. I refused a circle, because I wanted a "sharp" poster. Then I build letters and a heart. They looked fine, but I felt I need to create a background and some elements to balance the poster. Finally I got a poster like below :)
rafael_bernardo
Teacher Plus@antonpavlovichnechehov love the type and the small icons you built. should you want to work more with geometric shapes, why not create the social-media icons with them as well?
antonpavlovichnechehov
@rafael_bernardo I added a second version with minimalistic icons - social media and GPRS. A twitter logo wasn't easy to do with simple shapes, now I can make it in only someway like on poster "version 2", but I will look for others ways to make the logo. So now I'm waiting for your opinion :)
rafael_bernardo
Teacher Plus@antonpavlovichnechehov oh yes, way to go! i see what you mean with the twitter logo, but i think that if you create a few variations with it, that you’ll find an icon you’ll be happy with. and what about the roman numbers? why are they not written in your type? what do you think about making everything more "one"?
this said, should you want to put some more time into the poster, here an idea: i noticed how you use different shades of black in the heart, which gives it a nice 3D-touch. now what about using this effect on the type as well? maybe you could also see what happens, if you rearrange the single letters or play with their size. here you have at least two possibilities. 01. you make it denser and bolder by leaving less space between the elements or making them bigger. 02. you give the heart the hero-role and make it the biggest element, while letting the typography shrink in size and have more of an "information-signage" touch.
01. could go towards a feeling of »event & festival« (one strong keyvisual and this here turns out to be the poster)
02. could go towards a feeling of »architecture & swiss design« (think about how to build a system, grid and composition to then break it)
last idea: get rid of the waves in the background and take a look at your poster on white or dark grey. now look which underlying structure or specific element/s you feel could be highlighted or accentuated by adding something in the background. what happens if a few big triangles or many small ones appear in the background?
and last last idea: maybe your final design is full of triangles side by side, but by using the gradients the heart and all the other elements become visible. should you want to try this option, i’d recommend to restart fresh. take all the experience you’ve made with the design so far, but take a completely new direction now. should the new design be completely different from what you did so far, that’s fine.
let me know, if you can relate to my feedback and feel free to consider only the parts, that sound interesting to you.
antonpavlovichnechehov
@rafael_bernardo thanks for your comment and ideas, I will try to do it and look what will work from it. I will try to make it as soon as possible and post results :)
antonpavlovichnechehov
@antonpavlovichnechehov Here I go again))) I made some changes in my project. Finally, I got a normal twitter icon, then I tried to rearrange a letter "R" and find a more good version of the letter. Also, I did minimalistic numbers instead of roman.
I started looking for new composition and tried to make it more bend, but I guess it was not a good idea. I also get rid of lines in background gave instead little triangles, which I gather in big ones. As I said, I don`t think this is a good poster design, but some parts of version 3 I liked and take them into other versions. At the end, I did 3D effect in main text, and it looked good.
After that, I went to swiss design and started from grid 9x9, and put every element, which I liked, and it seems for me very well))) But I don`t understand phases about "to break it", what it means?
By the end I created a poster in more festival style, made a guitar and names of bands in minimalist style, it also seems not bad, despite I was doing it more intuitively)))
rafael_bernardo
Teacher Pluscool, nice to see the variations. by "breaking it" i mean that once you organized everything neatly, you try to understand why it works, what you like about it. then you try to think of things to do with it, that contradicts the rule you create it. why? to "upgrade" the rule you made up. so for example if everything has a centric alignment, you can creak the composition by shifting some of the elements to a new layer, in which the "centric rule" doesn’t apply anymore. when you try different things, you will start noticing, that there are rules you don’t want to break, while other "mistakes" are okay to add tension or add some flavor. in short: first do everything the most right way you are able to do it and then do a rerun, only now, doing everything the wrongest way you can imagine. at the end, take some distance and ask yourself "what is really right and what is really wrong". maybe it helps to think you are doing a "good cop bad cop" game.
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