Poster Design- Week Four

This week I chose my concept and created three dimensional pieces that celebrated the rubber band. I then photographed the star shapes and manipulated them in Photoshop to begin the finished poster. The concept of the finished poster is based on stars and constellations as they are celebratory in nature. The background colour reflects the colour of the night sky. The colour of the text reflects the colour of the rubber bands. I placed smaller versions of the stars in the background so it would look like a night sky.     

Poster Design- Week Three

This week I began to develop two concepts and began thumbnails for my poster design. One of my concepts was creating a figure out of rubber bands and stretching the limbs in an exaggerated manner to portray the rubber bands elastic quality. The other concept was to make star out of rubber bands by manipulating the rubber bands. As a star is a special and celebratory symbol it would fit in well in celebrating an everyday object.  

Poster Design- Week Two

This week I began to experiment with the elastic band as a material. I made three dimensional structures and designs with the rubber bands. I discovered I could manipulate the elastic band into different shapes and designs. Seeing as I can manipulate the elastic bands into multiple shapes I may use this to create an image for my poster.  I also continued to develop visual concepts.

Poster Design- Week One

This week we began a new brief entitled “Celebration of Everyday Objects”. In this brief we were given an everyday object to celebrate my object being the elastic band. We were asked to look at the salient properties of the object and create a poster that celebrated those properties. I began this brief by researching the origins of the elastic band. It was invented in 1845 by Stephen Perry and it was originally used to hold documents or paper together. I then thought of the many different other uses of a rubber band as well as the physical properties of the band to begin developing the concept for my poster.