CD Release Poster

I'm going to be honest, I was not feeling this project and was not overly enthused about the way mine turned out.

For this project, we had to make a poster advertising a CD release party for the band we did the Kiosk presentation on. When I first started the project, I did not have a necessarily clear idea as to what I wanted it to look like, I just figured that once I started, ideas would come to me as they usually do. Unfortunately, because I couldn't quite grasp how I wanted my work to look, I didn't really know how to start or what images to look for.

My first draft of the poster, I started with a completely different look than what I ended up with. I wanted something eye catching but with a quirky look and utilizing my negative space. After working for over 2 hours on my first version of my poster, I got so frustrated that I was going to stop and come back to it. I just hated what I was making. I decided to look for other images just in case, and I stumbled upon the one I ended up using.

One of my biggest problems actually turned out to be the band's name. For a poster, I wanted the name to be big, but not overly stretched down and still readable. I tried putting it diagonally but didn't like how that looked. So when I got it to a decent size, I wanted it to stand mostly on its own so it stood out (being placed between the teeth on the picture also helped).

I liked the background picture but honestly, I don't think it worked for this poster. I just couldn't wrap my head around what I wanted the poster to look like, so I didn't end up with the greatest finished project.

In fact, I'm not very satisfied at all. In a way I wish I could do this over, just so I would have the chance to redeem myself. I'm just not happy with the outcome.