Author Topic: Designing for London (Read 5773 times)

PhenomenalDesigns · « **on:** February 06, 2009, 08:18:19 AM »

In a way, im designing for London, the government or some kind of branch wants my school to design a knife crime poster, and the school pretty much picked me to do it (Before it was a compitition, but they pretty much said they will use mine if its good enough), so heres one, what do you guys think? Any improvements? This is my first proper design job (If used im getting paid for it) so all comments welcome, any help appriciated, even if its rude (So saying, it sucks, the background should be changed, would be a great help):

http://i218.photobucket.com/albums/cc100/phenomenaldesigns/sparealife.jpg

Click the link, Its too big to show on here in its true glory (I think it looks very nice when its big)

(Also i had to save it in JPG because of photobucket...)

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #1 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:20:51 AM »

Is that the start of it, its looking good.

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #2 on:** February 06, 2009, 08:39:25 AM »

Quote from: Blazinkaos on February 06, 2009, 08:20:51 AM

Is that the start of it, its looking good.

Yeah its just a mock, it only took about an hour, im trying to get ideas flowing so I can spend weeks on a single, GIANT image (Like 5000x5000)

gamerdude767 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:00:02 AM »

damn thats looking gooood phen

cant wait to see final piece!

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #4 on:** February 06, 2009, 09:18:05 AM »

Quote from: PhenomenalDesigns on February 06, 2009, 08:39:25 AM

Yeah its just a mock, it only took about an hour, im trying to get ideas flowing so I can spend weeks on a single, GIANT image (Like 5000x5000)

Wow that is huge..lol Well your doing good man cant wait to see the finish.

Alien_X · « **Reply #5 on:** February 06, 2009, 10:32:05 AM »

It is okay I guess for random web-art, but not as a poster .

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #6 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:00:44 AM »

hes not finished tho.

bustinthejustin · « **Reply #7 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:08:56 AM »

Looks nice, but you might wanna make the font a little different. If you want a poster that catches people's attention, the words should be easily legible. It took me a while to figure out what the words said. Other than that, I like it

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #8 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:13:31 AM »

or he can do the same font butt different color and over lap that with a black outlining of it.

robin1989 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 06, 2009, 11:21:47 AM »

i liek the concept but not the font

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2009, 12:00:26 PM »

Quote from: bustinthejustin on February 06, 2009, 11:08:56 AM

Looks nice, but you might wanna make the font a little different. If you want a poster that catches people's attention, the words should be easily legible. It took me a while to figure out what the words said. Other than that, I like it

Yeah, but the thing about have a hard to read poster, it makes you WANT to read it, its a phycological thing, its why they make some alcohol ones like that

This isnt going to be a poster BTW, if I get it, its going to be hung all around central London and maybe some billboards (So robin and nemisis, and anybody else in London, might see it)

H-Sauce · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:16:19 PM »

Awesome. Just... Awesome.

treemty · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2009, 03:22:13 PM »

I like it...but make it a bit easyier to read...a BIT

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #13 on:** February 07, 2009, 02:34:59 AM »

Ok, so im gonna make another draft very soon

Things to change:

Font

Anything else?

PspKicks316 · « **Reply #14 on:** February 07, 2009, 11:16:14 AM »

I like the font. It's nice and easy to read.

H-Sauce · « **Reply #15 on:** February 07, 2009, 12:02:18 PM »

Maybe the bottom behind the text (cloud bit) could be changed.

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #16 on:** February 09, 2009, 08:28:18 AM »

So, change the font? Some people like it, some people dislike it (I actually really digg it)

Im gonna work on a new one tonight as a draft and see if it goes anywell. Finnally, a chance to use 3DMAX (Never used it before lol)

H-Sauce · « **Reply #17 on:** February 09, 2009, 09:05:15 AM »

Maybe keep that font but along the bottom in a sans-serif font in italics "Spare a life, Just drop the knife".

By the way, what font did you use on that?

IndyChav · « **Reply #18 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:06:39 AM »

If im honest not your best work, Just spitballing here but ....

Right...

Scroll style bit of paper on a brickwall attached wit hscrews or nails or soemthign in the corners.
In the middle have the knife tearing through the paper with either blood coming from the bottom or for as more powerful effect maybe try it as a tear, Symbolises the emotional damage done to the families.

Then teh inspirational text however you want to place it.

Just a thought dont stab me =]

Alien_X · « **Reply #19 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:15:58 AM »

Cool, I have used 3dsmax alot recently, very good piece of software, however it isn't something you can pickup in 5 minutes.

H-Sauce · « **Reply #20 on:** February 09, 2009, 10:18:19 AM »

Quote from: IndyChav on February 09, 2009, 10:06:39 AM

Just a thought dont stab me =]

I lol'd. I made a random one earlier, it suck cotton balls.

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #21 on:** February 09, 2009, 03:13:40 PM »

Quote from: frostBYTE! on February 09, 2009, 09:05:15 AM

what font did you use on that?

Rob Dylan

Quote from: IndyChav on February 09, 2009, 10:06:39 AM

If im honest not your best work, Just spitballing here but ....

Right...

Scroll style bit of paper on a brickwall attached wit hscrews or nails or soemthign in the corners.
In the middle have the knife tearing through the paper with either blood coming from the bottom or for as more powerful effect maybe try it as a tear, Symbolises the emotional damage done to the families.

Then teh inspirational text however you want to place it.

Just a thought dont stab me =]

Nice idea, I will see how hard it would be, if I cant find a stock image of a knife in that position I have to draw one in illustrator or 3dmax, which is quite hard, and time consuming

Quote from: Alien_X on February 09, 2009, 10:15:58 AM

Cool, I have used 3dsmax alot recently, very good piece of software, however it isn't something you can pickup in 5 minutes.

Yeah, im still kinda a noob to it and ive had it for a while and used it to play around from time to time

BTW, ive been working today, following a video tut I had on my HDD, but I really didnt pay attention to it just some of the steps he took (The advanced ones, like clipping many of the layers, curves etc) since it was in spanish or portuguese

I made it in a true A3 size, 3508 x 4961, 300 DPI, im going to print it tommorow using the professional colour printers in my art department

Its one of the biggest canvases ive worked with, it ended up with the PSD being over 300mb, I couldnt even save it as a PNG since it would take too much space and even when I save it as a compressed JPG its still about 10-15mb lol

Hit me up on msn if you guys wanna see it, ill send you the crappy 10-15mb jpeg

Its pretty much the first time i used loads of the tools from illustrator, and then imported them into photoshop, I can truly say it looks quite professional, although didnt turn out anything like the tutorial (I did miss many steps lol)

robin1989 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 09, 2009, 05:20:47 PM »

in PS you can scale it down by a certain percentage in pixel size see - how it looks at 50% pixels

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #23 on:** February 09, 2009, 11:29:24 PM »

Quote from: Mactastic Mendez on February 09, 2009, 05:20:47 PM

in PS you can scale it down by a certain percentage in pixel size see - how it looks at 50% pixels

it will lose alot of its detail but I will scale it to about 20% and upload it here, 50% is still way to big

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #24 on:** February 11, 2009, 07:41:29 AM »

PhenomenalDesigns what software you using to make this photoshop or something.

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #25 on:** February 11, 2009, 08:17:24 AM »

Quote from: Blazinkaos on February 11, 2009, 07:41:29 AM

PhenomenalDesigns what software you using to make this photoshop or something.

The really big one that I havent shown yet, I used Illustrator and Photoshop together

Adobe illustrator, and adobe photoshop, both in the adobe creative suite

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #26 on:** February 11, 2009, 08:26:15 AM »

what does adobe illustrator do. like does it do crazy stuff with the fonts and that.

PhenomenalDesigns · « **Reply #27 on:** February 11, 2009, 11:42:12 AM »

Quote from: Blazinkaos on February 11, 2009, 08:26:15 AM

what does adobe illustrator do. like does it do crazy stuff with the fonts and that.

Nah the text was done in photoshop, just an overlay made in illustrator and the shattering glass in illustrator since illustrator has really good 3d tools, they should really implement it into photoshop when they make cs5

Illustrator was pretty much first made for drawings, that were vector based so that you could make them any size without losing quaility, whereas photoshop is bitmap, where its all pixels, so you can get much more effects on it, and it looks better, but make it massive, and it looks horrible

Its hard to explain though, if you have it, then have a look at it and see if you get it, if not, dont invest in it, only invest in it once you have mastered photoshop

Blazinkaos · « **Reply #28 on:** February 11, 2009, 07:09:19 PM »

wow cs5 is coming out lol.
I have cs2 or cs3 im not sure. But its a sick program just gotta practice more with it still learning.

pranav41 · « **Reply #29 on:** February 20, 2009, 02:55:00 AM »

i really like it , but its not so readable , a change in font , would be GREAT ! , but stick to the slogan resting on the knife ,

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Author Topic: Designing for London (Read 5773 times)