The hand rendered effect works well here with large spaces between each other. even the though the typography is thick and chunky.
http://www.taubaauerbach.com
This is a great typography has modern art deco feel, this is what I'm looking for as something fresh.
http://janinevilla.com
A great poster the pink and grey works well together. The layout makes it it look fresh but still has the typography and image art deco. A good well thought of contrast of the two mixed together.
http://www.itcfonts.com
The sunshine like lines are very old art deco and is a strong trade stereotypical mark of art deco.
http://www.artyfactory.com
I've been looking at Art Deco for that psychedelic thin image and typogrphy, this will be great help to produce a modern product of an art deco inspired typography.
I have decided from the crit to produce anniversary cards.
Silver - 25th
Pearl - 30th
Jade - 35th
Ruby - 40th
Sapphire - 45th
Gold - 50th
I Find these design inspirational, creative and the colours fit well and can tell Trochet shows a strong understanding of colour and depth from his typographic work, the delicate typography hasrelents to the subject.
this work is very percular but really fasating looks futurist using the starts and galaxy as background images tying in with hair and texture brown paper. very odd but the cover might relate really well to the band s album.
I put this image on my blogger because it reminds me a lot of David Bowie, as being somehting very alien and unknown.
The subject I have choosen is the tank man Tiananmen Square
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/tankman
June the 5th:
This is what I've written up from looking and researching a website called timeline.
Introduction to the tank man
Outside China he is known simply as Tank Man. Inside the country he is not known at all. No trace is to be found of the young man armed only with shopping bags that 20 years ago blocked a column of tanks rolling through Beijing. His defiance became the defining image of the student demonstrations crushed by the People’s Liberation Army.
Tiananmen Square Protests
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests began in April after the death of the liberal reformer Hu Yoabang, former General Secretary of the Communist Party.
On April 22, 50,000 protesters gathered in the square where Mao Zedong first proclaimed the People’s Republic of China The number of people attending rose steadily and the demonstration turned from a commemoration into a broader protest against the Government calling for democracy. By the end of April more than a million people had gathered in the square at the centre of Beijing. "In Beijing one in 10 of the population was joining in … all of the old people, all the little children, so it was massive," explains Jan Wong, a foreign journalist in Beijing at the time. "You had doctors and nurses and scientists and army people demonstrating. The Chinese navy was demonstrating, and I thought, 'this is extraordinary because who's left? It's just the top leaders who aren't out there.'"
The protests were embarrassing the Government and the Soviet leader, International attention focused on the protest as students began hunger strikes in the square. The People's Liberation Army troops attempt to occupy Beijing. A huge number of civilian protestors block their convoys on the streets. People of Beijing begin a dialogue with the soldiers, trying to explain to them why they shouldn't be there. "You had these … touching moments of the people appealing to the army to join them, and feeding them, and giving them water, and saying, you know, 'Could be your son. Could be your daughter,'" says Orville Schell, who was in Beijing at the time. "And you have these sort of doe-eyed, puzzled soldiers, who were mostly country people, weren't experienced with big city life, just wondering what was going on here. And not wanting to hurt anybody." The soldiers have been ordered not to fire on civilians, even if provoked. They are stuck -- unable to reach the protestors in Tiananmen Square and unable to withdraw from the city -- for almost three days.
The troops finally are able to leave, but the government views the whole episode as another humiliation and challenge to its power. "The party leaders feared that the whole edifice of communism was going to collapse," says journalist John Pomfret. "They needed to make a stand, and a bloody stand, to show their population, and in effect, to cow their population, back into submission."
As word spreads that hundreds of thousands of troops are approaching from all four corners of the city, the people of Beijing flood the streets to block them, people set up barricades at every major interstion. At about 10:30 p.m., near the Muxidi apartment buildings -- home to high-level Party officials and their families -- the citizens become aggressive as the army tries to break through their barricades. The soldiers start firing on the unarmed civilians with AK-47s loaded with battlefield ammunition.
"The first rounds of fire catch everybody by surprise," recalls human rights observer Timothy Brook. "The people in the streets don't expect this to happen." The wounded are taken to nearby hospitals on bicycles and pull-carts, but the hospital staffs are unequipped to deal with the severe wounds. Muxidi sees the highest casualties of the night; an untold number of people are killed.
June 4th
At about 1:00 a.m., the People's Liberation Army finally reaches Tiananmen Square and waits for orders from the government. The soldiers have been told not to open fire, but they have also been told that they must clear the square by 6:00 a.m. -- with no exceptions or delays. They make a final offer of amnesty if the few thousand remaining students will leave.
Later that morning, some people -- believed to be the parents of the student protestors -- try to re-enter Tiananmen Square via Chang'an Boulevard. The soldiers order them to leave, and when they don't, open fire, taking down dozens of people at a time. According to eyewitness accounts, the citizens seem not to believe the army is firing on them with real ammunition. "After a little while, like 40 minutes, people would gather up their nerve again and would crawl back to the corner and start screaming at the soldiers, and then the commander would eventually give another signal … and they'd shoot more in the backs," remembers journalist Jan Wong, who watched it all from her hotel room above the boulevard. "And this went on more than half a dozen times in the day." When rescue workers tried to approach the street to remove the wounded they were shot.
No one knows for certain how many people died over the two days. The Chinese Red Cross initially reported 2,600, and then quickly retracted that figure under intense pressure from the government. The official Chinese government figure is 241 dead, including soldiers, and 7,000 wounded.
June 5th Suddenly a slight figure in a white shirt and black trousers, a shopping bag in each hand, dashed out into the road and stood waiting as the tanks approached. The lead vehicle halted. It was a breathtaking standoff. The lone man stood firm. Would the tank run him down?
It moved right to go around him. The man waved the shopping bag in his right hand then danced a few steps to the left to block the tank again. The tank swerved back left to avoid him. The man waved the bag again and stepped to the right. Both halted. The tank even turned off its engine. Then the man switched his bags into one hand and jumped on to the machine. He banged his fist on the metal monster and appeared to talk to the soldiers inside. After a few moments he clambered back to the ground and resumed his blocking position. The tank driver even opened the hatch, perhaps to talk.
Then a man on a bicycle darted out from the roadside. Two others followed on foot, hands in the air, rushing to hustle the unknown man out of harm’s way. He was never seen again.
It has become an image forever identified with the defiance displayed that spring by students and citizens demanding greater freedoms and more accountability from their Government. The identity of Tank Man remains a mystery.
Han Dongfang, the leader of a workers’ union during the tumult, said: “I don’t think anyone in the world can find this person . . . Who he was is not important at all. What is important is that he was there, and by his act he gave encouragement to a lot of people.”
To this day, who he was and what became of him remains a mystery.
Internet
Photographs of the face-off are banned in China and blocked on the Internet. Few Chinese have ever seen the image that for the rest of the world symbolises the student movement of that spring in 1989. Private Internet companies that run search engines, chat rooms and web logs, including U.S giants Yahoo, Google and Microsoft are required to censor themselves, and to provide information about their users to Chinese authorities.
The still and motion photograph of the man standing alone before a line of tanks reached around the world over night. It hit headlines on all major newspapers and he became one of the most important people of the century. Shame that in his country he is unknown.
Same idea I was doing for my book covers but using tv program instead of films.
exergian
The cover has a very simple delicate style with the thin lines and coloured blocks down the side it reminds me Peter Saviles work.
http://www.wayshapeform.co.uk
again the same the use of colours looks stunning and simple not exactly what it's about though.
I had the same idea of producing my poster to have the images on both sides and folds open as on full image of the background.
It would be a good thought to think about having colour on one side to grab more attention.
or having the information on the image but worried it might spoil the image. this has not spoiled but what would you put on the other side.
Slightly changing the original image makes it stand out more and the graphic designer a style a trade on it. stamped his mark. But is it necessary? it works but I think it would depends on what image as some photographs done need to be 'styled' or 'modern up'.
these are fantastic and simple work produced by Olly Moss, really simple and cleaver, and if you have seen the film you can work them out quickly. This is an example I want to produce something simple and cleaver. He uses basic shapes rather something detailed and decreative. The colours are also important to these covers they are all back and white and red relating very well to each film. It's amazing how well thought out these books are and you don't need to have a pritty detailed cover to grab the attention of the buyer. Many buyers might reaconise the cover because they have seen the film first and wanted to read the book. for example I watched t Fight Club and then read the book. weirdly I thought the film was better than the book!
