Poster Project Step 4

Here is my final project for the poster. I didn't put as many arrows as my original design because I thought it would have looked too clustered together. I instead added a coloured background with some noise and tiles so that it looks slightly pixelated. I also added a gradient stroke around the arrows and letters of the poster to add some sort of character to it. I still maintained the whole arrow concept at the bottom as well except with two arrows going side to side. Overall I like the way the words fall together how "Illegal" is within one of the arrows going down and the second arrow that is pointing down is used as the "L" in "Downloading" thus incorporating all the aspects of the poster within each other. And staring with the arrow concept I used the universal "Download" symbol as the "O" in "Downloading" and in "Crime" the "M" has an arrow in the middle to shape it out.

Poster Project Step 3

Here are my three thumbnail sketches for my poster design. I wanted something simple and that stands out. I decided to take the first design because it displays the message in bold and also connects to the topic. I have arrows pointing downwards indicating the "Downloading" aspect of it and then an arrow to the side displaying "Crime" to portray the fact that if you do illegal downloading it may send you straight to jail.

Poster Project Step 2

I went a little crazy in terms of finding examples of constructivist posters and ended finding more than four but these are the ones that I found stood out to me the most. Very plain and simple posters with "straight-to-the-point" type of portrayal.

Poster Project Step 1

After seeing many different constructivist poster designs I noticed that they are all straight to the point and use many shapes and straight lines.

I decided to take the idea of piracy and downloading content (Software, Music, Movies) illegally from the web. Many people in our times do download illegally and some of us don't realize the consequences that it may lead to if found guilty. In my poster idea I want it to stand out and just say it's meaning in bold so that there's no hidden message.

The target audience for this poster would be the general population in today's modern age who all use computers and the internet and have or have thought to download content illegally.

This poster will be able to be seen in many different places and can be posted up in schools, offices/workplaces, or even outside shop windows.

DJ Logo #2 - FINAL

Here is the final concept that I came up with for the logo. The bottom picture is what I started out with in terms of concept. I wanted to use those sun rays that I had made and give it a type of "glow from heaven" feel as well as a smoother shape such as the elliptical shape I came out with. I also added the DJ silhouette in the background to make it more appear-ant as to what the logo was all about. Also added little headphone over the "I" as well as a gradient on the "DIO" to emphasize the name and bring it out over the "DJ". This is my final logo design and am pleased with this and what is really nice about this logo design is that it is easy to change the colors around if need be such as the sun rays or letter colors. 

DJ Logo #1

First two concepts of my DJ logo. I decided to use half a picture of a vinyl to shape out the D. This "D" would be used for the beginning letters of "DJ" and "Dio". I then found a turntable arm to resemble the letter "J" and so I incorporated that next to the "D". In my first concept I added the "Dio" inside the LP because the inner label of it also formed a "D" and I thought it would be a clever design. Though I came to the conclusion that the "Dio" wouldn't be the part that caught people's eye. So in the second concept I decided to take the "I" and the "O" out and then shrink the turntable arm and have the needle rest on the vinyl as if it's playing. I then also incorporated headphones hanging on the vinyl as well and the sun ray effect in the background. I was not satisfied with this design afterwards and then decided to change ideas... P.S. I found a tutorial on how to make the sunrays on Photoshop.

Logo Project - Creative Matrix & 1st Concepts

This was my first idea going into this project. Decided to make a logo for a cannoli company. Decided to go elsewhere through this and had some other thoughts in mind instead. On the Thumbnail Sketches you can notice a completely different logo design for my DJ company and I started from there.