Concept

Poster Concept

By Al Holt (4565)

With a slogan such as “Me Designer” I wish to take a more broad approach to deliver a visual representation of myself. What I have put together on my mood board will lead to the eventual construction of my poster, all the characters and ideologies have been an inspiration for me at one point or another, therefore I intend to give a sort of dark stylisation to my creation. On top of that I also hope to give off a gritty, dirty persona to the poster, or at least one that will inflict those feelings in the viewer. Christopher Hitchens once said in an interview, “If you can write, you can talk”, I intend to base my poster around this ideology. Where does design come into play? Well in terms of design, the construction of language uses the principles of design as much as any image. I intend to follow Gestalt Law as I construct my poster, implementing factors such as “closure” and “similarity” for maximum effect. Now this idea is still raw, but by combining typography and facial structure I hope to compose a gritty and descriptive image, think the poster for Pink Floyd's “The Wall”*. The poster hopefully be composed of text (original), although at this point this is highly theoretical as I do not know whether it will be able to convey the grotesque. 

Pink Floyd "The Wall"

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