Internet Finds

Went looking through some poster designs,

I found some designs for the movies Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill and Inglorious Bastards,

the website where I found them, unfortually didn't state a name, so I couldn't look more into them.

But they are displayed in a style along the lines I want to put together, the simplicity design, with limited colour pallet.

I don't understand the design behind this Inglorious Basterds design, but it is the type of designs I like, enjoy to look at and explore. Simplicity and limited colour pallet.

The Reservoir dogs poster is simular to what I have been focusing on, the colours of the names of the characters. Although I do want to use a limited colour pallet, I just feel this is a good chance to produce something good and simple with colours.

This is the simple, the yellow dot just represents the character as she is known for wearing a yellow outfit, I do really like how this designs is simple and works, you understand what it is from it being a circle, which doesn't represent anything through the film.

Gluemarketing & Productions

08.10.2010

Gluemarketing & Productions came in for a talk today, gentlemen named Jonathan Smith and Oli, who was on the Graphic Design course last year.

They came in and explained there company and what they do and how they do it.

Gave us some pretty useful information about C.V's and how they should and should not be written, what to expect at a design interview.

Mentioned we should look into short course on the side of our course, experience a work load like you would in a industry.

He also said we should look into companies before agreeing to a interview,

Are they professional? Do they have a background? Any other things you should know.

He gave us a useful website called Linked In, which could be handy when getting yourself out there,

instead of using Facebook or Twitter and so on.

Aswell as having Glue Productions and Marketing, he also has a share in The Loft, which is a bar,

So after the talk he gave use a optional brief, whether we done it or not was up to us.

The brief is to design a flyer advertising The Loft, A5 or A6 was our choice.

From this he is looking for 3 designers from our course, to be able to do quick turn around designs.

I reckon I will give it ago, why not. Nothing to lose.

If I get to be one of the three, then great, of not, then no skin of my nose.

Group Tutorials

07.10.2010

We had a group tutorial, our group was filled by myself, Vicky, Lindsey, Leigh, Craig & Ben.

The idea was to go through out Rationale, State of Intent and the briefs we are planning on doing.

As our fellow students where informing us about there work we had to take notes and give feedback.

I feel mine went pretty well, got alot of positive feedback and was giving information I could put together to improve,

I don't feel I explained my briefs very well,

The Movie Marathon and LCA FC got positive feedback,

But my magazine design was criticised, which was fair, because I have yet to nail a topic, which is something I will be sorting out within the next few days.

And the promotion for a music artist was more or less the same, I hadn't picked and artist or anything.

As for that brief I reckon I could be changing it, as part of the 27Club which I had already started during the summer, but it could do with alot of improvement.

So I will also be re-writing that brief.

I feel I should re-write most of my briefs, as I haven't nailed the topic on most, just left them broad and wide open.

But overall I feel the tutorial did help me get more on my feet,

knowing what I have to do for the briefs, and the deadlines sorted with everything.

Existing Quentin Tarantino Movie Posters, Kill Bill

Besides Inglorious Bastards, Kill Bill is a movie of Quentin's that I can remember.

Remember seeing the designs around, on Billboards, bus shelters, even phone boxes.

This is the design I remember seeing around, I remember the fact it stood out with the yellow and black, a strict colour pallet. Once again I like this because it is a good use of photography, something that helps inspire me.

The two above, as you can see is the same design, but with abit extra added, feel they both have the exact same effect, nice use of colour, even with the addition of red.

These are one of my favourite sets, due to limited colour pallet which is something I am looking at doing for my set of posters.

Existing Quentin Tarantino Movie Posters, Jackie Brown

This was the VHS and DVD cover, but was also the movie poster used to help advertise the movie, along with a selection below, that focus on the characters. The design works for me, good use of photography, and then well put together and use of colour.

This is a poster that you can buy in the shops, out of the set, this is my favourite of the set, I am a big fan of using photography, and I feel the shot used is perfect, works so well. Nice design.

The four above I really like, they are like helping the range of the posters by having a poster for each character, same as the Inglorious Bastards posters, as did Sin City. But I feel it works well with the main poster, having a range, so people are seeing more of it, than just the one Movie Poster.

This one stands out to me, not as a good design, this one doesn't work for me, but its the fact that it has been done in full colour, and not the black and white designed used on all the rest.

Whether this was a chance for them to experiment. Just doesn't have the effect the others do.

Existing Quentin Tarantino Movie Posters, Pulp Fiction

Pulp Fiction is another classic movie by Quentin, probably the most popular and well known out of the selection. With a selection of big name actors as he does seem to draw in alot with his films.

Once again I wouldn't know know if the designs where scattered around the countries as I was only four years of age at the time, with this movie being released in 1994.

This is the only design I could find on the web, the rest where made by people who looked like they spent ten minutes on them, so I didn't want them up here.

But as for this, This is used for both VHS and DVD and was also the movie poster in 1994, and is still being sold as a poster in shops, a poster that you could but in your room or whatever.

This is probably the most famous image of Quentin's, they most well known and most seen.

Existing Quentin Tarantino Movie Posters, Reservoir Dogs

My favourite out of the Quentin movies is Reservoir Dogs,

Below are a few designs that where put together for the movie, including promotional posters.

I was only 2 at the time, so I wouldn't know if they where put around, on billboards etc.

This is the movie cover for the movie. Used for the DVD and VHS,

By what I could find, it doesn't look like many here designed, more or less the one above was the only one used to promote the movie.

The two posters above focus on the colour, what colour that person represented, Mr.White etc.

So far that has been what I have been doing myself with my designs.

This designed I feel just doesn't work, poorly designed, back in the early 90's maybe it was a appealing design,

but I don't feel it has that edge for the modern day.

Existing Quentin Tarantino Movie Posters, Inglorious Bastards

I have looked into alot of work by illustrators and designs but I am yet to have spoke about the already designed work for the movies that I have selected to focus on.

Starting with Quentin's most recent film from 2009, Inglorious Bastards.

This was the movie poster that was designed to advertise the film,

you could see this poster around all cities on bus shelters, billboards, just spread around areas, was well promoted,

as for the design I really like it, limited colour, how the title has been messed about with to fix in with the imagery.

Works really well as a promotion for the movie.

This was designed for a special edition cover for the released DVD, to understand this I think you need have seen the film to see how they clash, but on a personal view I think its a really good, simple, effective design.

From these three, this one above stands out to me most, great use of photography, great shot.

Good mixture of colours, stands out to the others because the use of colour.

The three above I found whilst browsing the internet, I never seen any of these around myself,

but I love the use of photography, the dull grey colours, mixing in well with the red.

Noma Bar, Guess Who? Book

Aswell as Negative Space, he also has another book released named Guess Who?

Its based on celebrites, and Noma doing what he does so well and doing illustrations of people and using something to do with the subject matter to reveal the face.

A few pages from the books_

Kenny_ This design I had seen him use in a earlier piece, but not for Kenny, same design with the lit match, but not with the same character in the back drop.

Rocky_ The simplicity of using a boxing glove for a eye full of blood, relating to the film and the character, using some objects in context.

Jeremy Clarkson_ This is favourite of the set, not a Clarkson fan, but I love how Noma has gone about this illustration, using roads, the gears for his face, which is pretty odd but they work, and the wheel rims for the bits of grey in his hair.

Bob Dylan_ This is spot on, looks exactly like Bob Dylan, using a guitar for his glasses and harmonica and stand for his mouth, using two instruments he uses in context. Brilliant.

This is exactly the type of ideas I want to use for my Movie Posters, clever images being edited with items in context to the subject matter.

I think I will have to look into getting this book, unfortually it is not in the Library, so I will have to look else where, but I need to get my hands on it.

Noma Bar, Negative Space Book

Just a few more posts about Noma Bar,

This time it is about the books he has released, this post is about the book Negative Space.

Here are a few pages from the book_

This is the front and back cover of the Negative Space book,

His cleverness shows again, head being used for the cover, body being used for the back and the spine being used for the dogs collar, its simple, clever well thought designs like this why I like his work.

The book looks really interesting, just looking at some of the double page spread that I found on the internet have drawn me in, and made me want to view more of the book,

Just filled with his simple, well thought out designs.

I will have to go the Library to see if they have this book in, and the other book, Guess Who.

I really should make sure I get hold of these books as the designs could be a real big help with what I am attempting to do for this brief.

Noma Bar, Faces

When looking through Noma's work, along with the IBM and a few others I have looked through, noticed how much he loves to mess about with faces, and illustrating faces in different ways, using punctuation and letters, and items get used alot.

With the other blogs, below are examples of what I am talking about_

This was the cover to a G2, which is a smaller paper in The Guardian, the title being "Why Iran is going nuclear: The inside story" and as ever, he has based his illustration of a face, with something to do with the subject matter, in this case a nuclear bomb.

On a personal view, the two images above, don't work any where near aswell as all the other designs I have seen, just doesn't have that clever effect with the design, just using a "?" to make up some facial features, in these cases nose, and eyes.

Magazine designs, the G2 one I mentioned earlier on this blog. But I wanted to mention the Spok, from Star Trek design, used for the magazine, Esquire, using the Spok symbol for the eye, compared to the work I have seen him do, this isn't the best, feel he could have done more with it.

The designs based on war, seem to always catch my eye, nuclear logo making up the face of the soldier. Simple.

This is one of my favourite Noma Bar designs, Pulp Fiction is a personal favourite, but along with that, one of the posters I plan to design is based on Pulp Fiction, so this could be a large help, obvious I am not going to rip it off and copy, but it is something I can look at and inspire from.

As you can obviously see, he loves to mess about with faces and using items along the lines of the subject to full fill the imagery.

Compared to his other work the faces don't appeal to me as much, some are brilliant, some are average, and some I feel don't work, but that is my personal opinion.

I prefer his work of using negative space, which he has designed a book about, which will be on a later post.