POSTCARDS: TRIANGLE THEME

INITIAL SKETCHES

For my poster designs I was influenced from research on triangles and the artists I cam across. I started off with experimenting with different ways I could incorporate a triangle within my photo's like Jack Hardwicke + Julio Disano.

I really liked my final design as I felt it was abstract and fufilled the brief in a different way from what other people with the same theme as me used.

TRIANGLE PATTERN DEVELOPMENT

Using Photoshop I free hand made the shape using the line tool, I think tracing the image would have been a  quicker process the development of my work on the computer allowed me to develop my design further from its original.

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 1

DESIGN DEVELOPMENT 2

I really liked this design as a final as it was simplistic and clean cut, however when I tried incorporating my images inside it like a collage style there wasn't enough width within the lines to see it clearly.

  

To overcome this problem I decided to add some bolder lines around the shape.

POSTCARD + TEXTURE DEVELOPMENT

From my contact sheet, I decided to experiment with the texture photo's over the architectural photo's as I felt it went better with the design and my influential artists designs.  

I experimented with different textures and the alignment of the final pattern, until I found a series of designs I liked.

FINAL POSTCARD DESIGNS

POST CARD 1

POST CARD 2

POST CARD 3

POST CARD 3

POST CARD 4

 

POST CARD BACK DESIGN

For the design of the back of my postcards I wanted it to be simplistic and so I created a brush from triangle shapes and simply put it inside a square outline for the stamp part. I also added a small thin line to separate where to address would be written compared to the message.

ORIGINAL IMAGES BEFORE MANIPULATION

POST CARD 1

For this image I increased the saturation and contrast to make the colours brighter. For my pattern I coloured the blocks in so the image would be more prominent and I repeated the pattern to create a continuous texture. I also used the darken tool on the blend options so the image fitted within the pattern.

POSTCARD 2

For this image I simply used the lighten tool on the blend bar options so it fitted within my pattern design. I also opted for a black background so the colours would stand out vibrantly.

POST CARD 3

By using the contrast and colour channel I increased the saturation of colours and it highlighted the small leopard print patterns in the screen print texture I found. I finished the design by using the original black pattern design and added two of them.

POSTCARD 4

For this image I used the contrast tool bar just to make the colours stand out. For this design I just turned my pattern landscape and used a white back ground due to the bright colours in the image.

POSTCARD 5

I edited this image using the colour channel on Photoshop changing it from a dull orange and teal to a bright blue and pink. I then inverted my pattern to white to create a nice contrast and played around with the arrangement of it using the pattern twice.

PRINTED FINALS

 

Overall I was really pleased with the outcome of my designs, I felt some of them were really strong and some needed some more development  When they were printed the colour of them was slightly dull or pixilated, this is something I need to work on and possibly I should of continued working in CMYK mode instead of RGB which was something I learnt in my Photoshop tutorial.