Poster

Concept 

My major is Animation and I also want to animation as my lifelong career. Miyazaki Hayao is my favorite Animated film director. From his movies, I felt that his works are sincere and courageous, there are many pure things are represented in his movies, it is like a fruit hard candy.

In addition, the action animation is also my favorite, the excited fight scenes, the dynamic camera angles and the inspiring music background, all the elements combine together to make my blood boil. The action animation feels like the super spicy chili.

I want to combine these two styles of my favorite and transform into my own style of my animation. Therefore, the hard candy and spicy chili came out from my mind. Then the idea has come, which is a hard candy with the chili flavor.

However, for my poster, I encountered a problem which how to express the candy is very spicy. I tried to use a candy with the red color on my poster, but it is not successful. Then I added fire behind the candy, but the image looks like a poor advertising. 

Finally, the ‘muse’ came to see me, I designed a candy with a chili form and it has the colored banding. The banding is used black color in order to differentiate the Christmas candy and I applied reification of the Gestalt principle for the chili candy’s body. In addition, I added the sun as the background. The Sun symbols the courage and the chili candy, pure red color all represent my passion. From the bottom of my poster, a pan at the beginning, then there are a bulb, a mouth, Miyazaki’s dodoro, a man who is holding a sword, a big hand. All these element express that my paining skills, my ideas, my purpose which bring laugh to the audiences, my inspiration all the factor like a big hand to support me to create my style of ‘chili candy’. I’m a simple person and I want my animation can give the audiences a lot of courage. Therefore, my poster’s structure keeps simple and I uses a black background to stand out the chili candy and sun.

Task

These three posters are all from Luba Lukava,world-renowned artist and professor. This collection swiftly and ably showcases Lukova's masterful use of metaphors and symbols to express themes that include peace, war, ecology, immigration, media, corruption, censorship, and Sudanese poverty. The first example, event it is called peace, the metaphorical expression is to satirize. She uses closure of Gestalt principle to create a peace dove on the center of this image. However when we see this image clearly, this peace dove is build by a lot of shapes which are missiles, tanks, soldiers etc. For the color, she applied blue and white which are all symbol peace and pure. 

When I see this poster firstly, I though this is quite interesting. It is called brainwashing, there is a washboard called 'Media' where is washing human's brain. But the man's face still is smile. All the elements combine together to express deeper meaning for media business these days.It gives afford for thought. She still uses simple composition which put the man in the middle with white background. There is no shadow and it is used pure color.  

Fun is the sun,very interesting, Luba uses quite pure blue color as the sea's color and also uses the same color to be the background. In addition, the light blue as the support color is used on the skin's color of the man. For this work's visual structure, it just like a normal life photo in order to represent deeper meaning.    

Week 9 Task 1

I uses several 'me designer' to arrange an axis in order to separate two parts, the main part is on the right where has some fonts.

 Radial, In general, all elements extend from a point of focus. However, I changed the point to a square, then I still followed the way which is a radiative trend.

For the principle of Dilatation, all elements expand from

a central point in a circular, but I applied the reification principle of Gestalt to make the structure looks like a raised disk.  

I applied the circle as the focus, then make a hole on this black circle. My purpose is that expressing the banding have two positions which are front and back. In addition, I also put the font the banding.

 I put several lines on this image firstly to make the Sudoku, then I selected different elements on each  grid.

I applied four shapes and arranged these as a line from large to small. In addition, I used some fonts as layered banding at the bottom of this work and applied a few of fonts around the first shape.

I used 8 black squares to arranged this image irregularly, then I applied the closure principle of Gestalt to represent 'Me design'.  

I made a line as the axis at right on this image firstly, then I played with these font and arranged them. Next I deleted the line, created some shapes on the there in order to express the axis. 

Final Postcards Design