The World Needs Interesting: Final Axial Posters

For this week's type process post I decided to process the music posters that I did. The axial system seemed as though it was going to be the quickest and easiest but soon after starting I found that this was not the case. To start both of my posters I looked around at different design websites and design magazines to see how they handle type and if they were using the axial system. I also wanted to get a feel for what other people were doing with music posters. After sketching out several idea's, I went to work on the computer. Out of habit, I tend to start out my ideas in black and white so that I don't focus too much on color. I immediately found a guitar that I wanted to use and from there I started playing around with the size and placement of it. Once the guitar was set I knew that this was going to become my axis. I made a lock up for the name of the band to fit the shape of the bottom of the guitar. Adding in the other text was a bit of a struggle with trying to keep hierarchy. I wasn't thrilled with how it came out but now it was time to play with color. Since the design was so simple I knew that I wanted to do bright colors. These bright colors ended up carrying into my second poster which I wanted to focus more on the type and less with a graphic element. I created a sort of design element at the top using the ACL Music Festival and then stacked type along the right axis at the bottom according to importance. After creating the poster and playing with colors I noticed a large empty space on the right, I went back and added a music note to fill the shape. I chose this certain note due to the shape and curl of it to counteract all the hard square geometric shapes I used with the type. Looking back I wish I saved photos of my posters as I went along so I didn't have so much explaining to do but I definitely learned my lesson for the next project!

Inspiration for project: one of my favorite music posters I found, not necessarily axial but I loved it anyways!