Graphics - Posters
Posters
Bit trickier to display on a small screen as these posters I did for myself, university clubs and commercially are meant to be large scale on a notice board or similar. As conveying a large amount of text, these are somewhat small to fit on a laptop screen.
Three of these are university notice board posters were designed for an audience to pause and read once their grabbed so have lots of information to absorb. These are the hardest to display due to the text size when shrunk.
Three of these are university notice board posters were designed for an audience to pause and read once their grabbed so have lots of information to absorb. These are the hardest to display due to the text size when shrunk.
Student Halls Complex Entertainments Committee Invite Poster
Another poster intended for stay at Brunel University. This time the brief was to build interest and invite involvement in a student hall complex entertainments committee.
This one was intended to grab attention whilst competing against night club nights and various others.
The key part was a bizarre and naughty sexualisation of a muppet gone bag. This combined the Hellraiser horror movie key villain Pinhead and the film puzzle box that was supposed to be the gateway into the realm of forbidden pleasures or a sexual nature.
Innocent puppet character of students childhood gone wicked and bad to lure students in curiosity wise.
Once attention grabbed it explain things such as this will be to organise into Hall complex competition, parties and activities.
Again the student tactic of information and contact information tabs was employed. Now this would be a QR code for the smart phone generation.
Ideally these dould be double sided on doors to student halls rather than just notice boards, as more likely to be noticed.
This one was intended to grab attention whilst competing against night club nights and various others.
The key part was a bizarre and naughty sexualisation of a muppet gone bag. This combined the Hellraiser horror movie key villain Pinhead and the film puzzle box that was supposed to be the gateway into the realm of forbidden pleasures or a sexual nature.
Innocent puppet character of students childhood gone wicked and bad to lure students in curiosity wise.
Once attention grabbed it explain things such as this will be to organise into Hall complex competition, parties and activities.
Again the student tactic of information and contact information tabs was employed. Now this would be a QR code for the smart phone generation.
Ideally these dould be double sided on doors to student halls rather than just notice boards, as more likely to be noticed.
College Extreme Sports Club Invitation Poster
This was a very early poster an adventure sports club designed for mid 90s students.
It combines a futuristic Sci-fi feel of an Star Wars X-Wing and Battlestar Galactica Viper fighter, surf board, snow board, kayak, jetski and similar kit powerful logo, with a tattoo feel made of the BXT initials.
It was intended to have a feeling of strength, speed, sharpness, pride, streamlined energy and identity belonging.
This was with a nightclub flyer feel, bright and colourful.
The poster had to include initial meetings information, be welcoming to all, to encourage the shy & timid to get involved.
Also to recruit executive members and list some of the activities.
Contact details were also needed for those who could not make initial meetings.
It combines a futuristic Sci-fi feel of an Star Wars X-Wing and Battlestar Galactica Viper fighter, surf board, snow board, kayak, jetski and similar kit powerful logo, with a tattoo feel made of the BXT initials.
It was intended to have a feeling of strength, speed, sharpness, pride, streamlined energy and identity belonging.
This was with a nightclub flyer feel, bright and colourful.
The poster had to include initial meetings information, be welcoming to all, to encourage the shy & timid to get involved.
Also to recruit executive members and list some of the activities.
Contact details were also needed for those who could not make initial meetings.
Friendly and Polite No Dogs Poster for a Barber Shop
A barber came in to Prontaprint asking for some sort of poster to say dogs were not allowed.
Whilst initial ideas were along the lines of a typical road sign approach then a rather graphic version showing dog jumps on barber, barber decapitates customer, perhaps the one owning the dog, something with a little more tact was asked for so came up with this.
Something much more colourful, with a very friendly dog explaining that it’s not that the shop owners did not like dogs, especially friendly ones as the customers may say ,“But he is really friendly” to try and sweet talk the staff into letting Fido stay.
The problem the poster states is it is exactly the friendly dogs that are the problem. This is done in a polite but no nonsense rational and logical manner, pointing out how with cut throat razers used against clients necks, the most vulnerable part of their body to blades could easily be jogged givig a lethal wound with the slightest jog.
The boarder adds some elegance to it
Whilst initial ideas were along the lines of a typical road sign approach then a rather graphic version showing dog jumps on barber, barber decapitates customer, perhaps the one owning the dog, something with a little more tact was asked for so came up with this.
Something much more colourful, with a very friendly dog explaining that it’s not that the shop owners did not like dogs, especially friendly ones as the customers may say ,“But he is really friendly” to try and sweet talk the staff into letting Fido stay.
The problem the poster states is it is exactly the friendly dogs that are the problem. This is done in a polite but no nonsense rational and logical manner, pointing out how with cut throat razers used against clients necks, the most vulnerable part of their body to blades could easily be jogged givig a lethal wound with the slightest jog.
The boarder adds some elegance to it
Student Radio Show Poster
My student radio slot poster whilst at Brunel University.
My show was to include a feel and music style that was very different to the same, bland boring mainstream content that covered the airwaves over the last couple of decades going back to the original pirate radio vibe.
To be wild, exciting, rebellious, outrageous taking inspiration from film such as “Pump Up the Volume”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “Private Parts”, “The Boat that Rocked” and others much more American in feel. The music was to cover genres like Rock, Metal, Nu-Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Base, Grunge, Brit Pop, have some swearing to show energy and expression and have a feeling of cheeky naughtiness and out outrageousness. The rebel feel also was intended to get political with a phone in talk show element, the more controversial the better.
Some American teen movie and Skins TV thrown in, elements of bawdy Carry-On films and also getting intelligent thinking on issues likely to affect students and the world in general adding an intellectual element.
My show was to include a feel and music style that was very different to the same, bland boring mainstream content that covered the airwaves over the last couple of decades going back to the original pirate radio vibe.
To be wild, exciting, rebellious, outrageous taking inspiration from film such as “Pump Up the Volume”, “Good Morning Vietnam”, “Private Parts”, “The Boat that Rocked” and others much more American in feel. The music was to cover genres like Rock, Metal, Nu-Metal, Punk, Hip Hop, Drum and Base, Grunge, Brit Pop, have some swearing to show energy and expression and have a feeling of cheeky naughtiness and out outrageousness. The rebel feel also was intended to get political with a phone in talk show element, the more controversial the better.
Some American teen movie and Skins TV thrown in, elements of bawdy Carry-On films and also getting intelligent thinking on issues likely to affect students and the world in general adding an intellectual element.