Headline Boards

Headline on Display

The Headline posters are up in Urban outfitters finally. I went down a couple of days ago and took some photos. They havn't really been displayed that well, but its nice to get my work up where so many poeple will see it.

Headline Screen Printing

I printed my final piece for the Headline brief today. It all went suprisingly smoothly. I took a lot of care mixing the right blue this time. I didn't really consider how important it is that you get the right colours previous times I have screen printed.

Headline Development

Some quick, early ideas for the headline brief.

After a few early ideas I settled on a layout similar to this. I wanted to keep my design really simple. I was originally planning to screen print the design.


After seeing these postage stamps from the 1912 Gordon Bennett balloon race I was quite interested in making my design in the style of a postage stamp.


Here I looked at some more adventurous use of colour. However I felt that my design was too similar to the postage stamps and I wanted to do something more typographic. I'm not an Illustrator and I felt this idea was relying too heavily on the image of the balloon.


So, I further developed the hand drawn typography which I had previously only used for the word 'Paris' so that it could become the centre piece of the poster.

I feel much happier going with this direction.


Experimentation with colour.


This is the stage I am at now. I did a test on A3 newsprint in sky blue ink. I chose newsprint because I wanted something fragile and ephemeral, like it really was a poster for the 1906 Paris balloon race. Newsprint also has an aged quality which I felt was appropriate.

I have to do some fine tuning to the design and make my final decision on colour and paper stock and the piece will be finished.

Headline

For my Headline brief I'm focusing on this funny little article I found burried on page 38 of the Saturday Guardian. It was first printed on the first of October 1906 and it covers the Paris hot air balloon race. I thought it was such a cool and nostagic subject that it would be good to base my brief on. I also thought that there would be a lot of interesting visuals that I could work with.

I started developing some type. I added the highlights on Illustrator, I tried a couple of different types. The top Paris has more pointed, narrower highlights and the one below has more rounded ones. I would have thought that pointed narrower ones would have looked better but I actually prefer the rounded ones.

Originally I just tried one word but then I thought I would try the whole title in hand rended type.
I am pretty happy with how they turned out. I am continuing to develope the rest of the poster.