[QUOTE=Autumn;36063023]do you go to an archery school?
[editline]23rd May 2012[/editline]
i'm liking the choice of fonts (looks like Aachen for the title and something like Amatic for the handwritten bit?), but the "creating the future that we desire" font looks pretty out of place. also your tracking is way off on that bit
the colours on the logo work for me, but on the banner they're too saturated and you have 3 different greens and 3 different yellows/golds. if you kept the colours more similar to the logo i think it would look better
also does your school begin with B?[/QUOTE]
heh, close: our school mascot is a Green Archer, and our school colors are Green Gold and White, so yeah our palette has to stick that :P
The bow is supposed to look like a '13, school year 2013 and all that.
Thanks for the feedback, I'll fix the colors shortly. What else should be done w/ the logo or is it fine as it is?
yeah, I'm kind of a font-whore when it comes to these things.The title is actually ChunkFive though, but you're spot on with the Amatic. I'm a little stumped with the font for the 'creating the future' part actually, for the life of me I can't find a suitable font, so some help there would be great as well!
Loving this thread, guys! Keep up the great work :D
Don't know if we have any fellow roadgeeks on this forum.
Anyways, I made a vector in Inkscape using standard highway specs and then edited it in Paint Shop Pro XI.
I've messed around in PSPXI a lot, but I've never done too much advanced editing before. This piece takes advantage of a lot of inner bevelling, by the way.
[img]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/43307106/0/halgreerblvd.png[/img]
This is the first time I've ever heard of a "roadgeek"
[QUOTE=Meller Yeller;36151884]This is the first time I've ever heard of a "roadgeek"[/QUOTE]
Yea, figured there weren't many here.
This is our lair: [url]http://www.aaroads.com/forum/[/url]
Road enthusiasts, now I've seen everything
So, hi guys, first time actually posting in creatonist corner.
I'm going to buy myself a new tablet soon, but i can't really decide which one buy. Any advices? I was thinking about buying a Wacom Intuos 5L, but since there are no L's without touch function (at least in my region). I am torn between 5M or 4L, can someone tell me the difference between the 4 series and 5 series?
Or alternatively, can someone recommend me a tablet which you consider a good choice? (I hope this is the right thread to post this)
[QUOTE=elevate;36152171]Yea, figured there weren't many here.
This is our lair: [url]http://www.aaroads.com/forum/[/url][/QUOTE]
Here is a suggestion: At least do something like collect stamps. (Your road sign looks pretty decent as far as a mock-up road sign goes though)
[editline]1st June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=BananaMed;36154975]So, hi guys, first time actually posting in creatonist corner.
I'm going to buy myself a new tablet soon, but i can't really decide which one buy. Any advices? I was thinking about buying a Wacom Intuos 5L, but since there are no L's without touch function (at least in my region). I am torn between 5M or 4L, can someone tell me the difference between the 4 series and 5 series?
Or alternatively, can someone recommend me a tablet which you consider a good choice? (I hope this is the right thread to post this)[/QUOTE]
There used to be a specific thread about Tablets and such, can't find it atm. However, I would ask in the creative work that doesn't deserve a thread thread, and I would suggest showing some work first because in my opinion jumping into a tablet without having a decent traditional grounding first is pointless.
[QUOTE=BananaMed;36154975]So, hi guys, first time actually posting in creatonist corner.
I'm going to buy myself a new tablet soon, but i can't really decide which one buy. Any advices? I was thinking about buying a Wacom Intuos 5L, but since there are no L's without touch function (at least in my region). I am torn between 5M or 4L, can someone tell me the difference between the 4 series and 5 series?
Or alternatively, can someone recommend me a tablet which you consider a good choice? (I hope this is the right thread to post this)[/QUOTE]
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Whoops, totally missed the tablet point :v:
Ohwow. I didn't know this thread existed. I'm still in highschool but I've been doing some poster designs. I would love some critique on them. This is the most recent one, I might post the other later:
[IMG]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/155/d/7/visage_gallery_poster_by_rhenae-d5296qf.png[/IMG]
I felt this one was kinda lacking compared to my other poster. He wanted something fairly simple and classy looking. Got payed 50 bucks though :D
Edit: It has a white border, you can't see it on FP :C
in the nicest way possible... i don't really think there's much to be said about it.
it's not designed, it's just put together without much consideration for anything, and it looks pretty bad
sorry :c
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36184143]Ohwow. I didn't know this thread existed. I'm still in highschool but I've been doing some poster designs. I would love some critique on them. This is the most recent one, I might post the other later:
[IMG]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2012/155/d/7/visage_gallery_poster_by_rhenae-d5296qf.png[/IMG]
I felt this one was kinda lacking compared to my other poster. He wanted something fairly simple and classy looking. Got payed 50 bucks though :D
Edit: It has a white border, you can't see it on FP :C[/QUOTE]
In my opinion, the white blobs around the poster don't do anything FOR the poster, and they detract from the other elements; not simple or classy. The pictures are not centered in their white borders. The information isn't organized very nicely and the colours seem to harsh. The font is kind of quirky too.
I would suggest if you have these nice colourful paintings, don't minimize them to a thumbnail at the bottom, try using it as the full background and organizing text elements within the content of the image. What better way to show what the event is about then to show some of the work. Having a nice colourful image -like one of those paintings- will much more quickly draw someones eyes than a black background with text and some thumbnails.
In terms of organizing the information, you are understanding the basics of it (emphasis on the title and time of the event), but here is what I would suggest. What we learnt in school this year is that with posters you want to categorize your text and visual information into roughly three categories: The information that will draw the persons eye from a distance and cause them to come closer, the basic necessary information (what, where, when), and then the tertiary information that they can read if they want to know EVEN more.
With your poster I would say that one of those paintings would serve as the attracting image, then the what (Landscape Paintings: Extracting the Essence) where (Quispamsis Town Hall) and when (May 9th - 31st, plus the Reception and Meet & Greet) should be emphasized as the second category, and the description would be tertiary and therefore smaller and less significant.
The first and most important change in my mind is to get rid of the white blobs around the image. I know you already got paid and I guess its being used already, but if you feel my critique is useful then hold on to it for the future.
I think you should get rid of the white splatters completely first of all. They just look bad in every way possible.
I'm not a fan of the font used for the body text either. Plus it looks normal at the top and then the bottom text looks really squished.
[editline]3rd June 2012[/editline]
Wow everybody really jumped all over this
Ohwow. Lots of feed back. I will explain a few things people touched on, the pictures are small since it was a gallery for a whole class, and I didn't really want to use just one persons work for it. maybe I should have anyway though. The white splatters were added on suggestion by classmates because the original was too plain. Probably a bad idea.
I think with this advise once I have time (aka school is FINALLY done) i'll try making a new version to show you guys. It's over but I still have all the photos I took of their work and stuff so why not.
Just since I wasnt as happy with that one anyway, can i get feedback on this one:
[IMG]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/155/c/0/prom_extravaganza_final_by_rhenae-d529agx.png[/IMG]
I got so much praise for this one at school it is what got me in to the position of doing graphic design for everyone who wanted anything -without pay :C-
Would be good to have critique on this one since I felt this was more solid when I made it.
Edit: nice to get real critique, school has just been a bunch of asskissing compared to this lol, thanks guys.
Also ignore the file compression I must have saved it badly when I sized it down, that definitely is not on the original.
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36184406]
[IMG]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/155/c/0/prom_extravaganza_final_by_rhenae-d529agx.png[/IMG]
Edit: nice to get real critique, school has just been a bunch of asskissing compared to this lol, thanks guys.
Also ignore the file compression I must have saved it badly when I sized it down, that definitely is not on the original.[/QUOTE]
That's what Internet anonymity is for ha, well this one is better because it is cleaner, but there is still quite a bit of work that could be done on it.
What I said about categorizing text and visuals for your other poster applies just as much if not more to this one since there is more text.
Have a look at these rules and the images related to them, learning is a lot easier with examples: [url]http://www.ibcdesigners.com/2009/09/20-rules-of-graphic-design.html[/url]
I couldn't find a better link for it, but we looked at it a lot while designing Zines this year.
(Also it looks like some of the text has been squished or stretched, this is something you shouldn't ever do. If you need to make the text fit, either fiddle with the size proportionately or adjust spacing between words/letters and spacing between lines a little bit.)
[QUOTE=Smeetin;36184532]That's what Internet anonymity is for ha, well this one is better because it is cleaner, but there is still quite a bit of work that could be done on it.
What I said about categorizing text and visuals for your other poster applies just as much if not more to this one since there is more text.
Have a look at these rules and the images related to them, learning is a lot easier with examples: [URL]http://www.ibcdesigners.com/2009/09/20-rules-of-graphic-design.html[/URL]
I couldn't find a better link for it, but we looked at it a lot while designing Zines this year.
(Also it looks like some of the text has been squished or stretched, this is something you shouldn't ever do. If you need to make the text fit, either fiddle with the size proportionately or adjust spacing between words/letters and spacing between lines a little bit.)[/QUOTE]
Yup!
I definitely need to stop stretching text then. A very bad habit of mine I guess XD I hadn't thought of altering the spacing, thanks.
What would you suggest I change on this poster for the categorizing, it is a fair bit broken up, maybe more size difference or what specifically? :)
Thanks for the link, I'll check it out more in-depth later since I'm chilling at my BFs right now. Looks useful :)
Well everybody has to start somewhere. I remember my posters for school, they werent many but they weren't that good at all.
[QUOTE=D3TBS;36188550]Well everybody has to start somewhere. I remember my posters for school, they werent many but they weren't that good at all.[/QUOTE]
I would be fascinated to see where people on this thread started. Your all making awesome stuff so seeing the early work would be cool :D
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36184406]Ohwow. Lots of feed back. I will explain a few things people touched on, the pictures are small since it was a gallery for a whole class, and I didn't really want to use just one persons work for it. maybe I should have anyway though. The white splatters were added on suggestion by classmates because the original was too plain. Probably a bad idea.
I think with this advise once I have time (aka school is FINALLY done) i'll try making a new version to show you guys. It's over but I still have all the photos I took of their work and stuff so why not.
Just since I wasnt as happy with that one anyway, can i get feedback on this one:
[IMG]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/155/c/0/prom_extravaganza_final_by_rhenae-d529agx.png[/IMG]
I got so much praise for this one at school it is what got me in to the position of doing graphic design for everyone who wanted anything -without pay :C-
Would be good to have critique on this one since I felt this was more solid when I made it.
Edit: nice to get real critique, school has just been a bunch of asskissing compared to this lol, thanks guys.
Also ignore the file compression I must have saved it badly when I sized it down, that definitely is not on the original.[/QUOTE]
Oh my
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36184406]Ohwow. Lots of feed back. I will explain a few things people touched on, the pictures are small since it was a gallery for a whole class, and I didn't really want to use just one persons work for it. maybe I should have anyway though. The white splatters were added on suggestion by classmates because the original was too plain. Probably a bad idea.
I think with this advise once I have time (aka school is FINALLY done) i'll try making a new version to show you guys. It's over but I still have all the photos I took of their work and stuff so why not.
Just since I wasnt as happy with that one anyway, can i get feedback on this one:
[IMG]http://th09.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/f/2012/155/c/0/prom_extravaganza_final_by_rhenae-d529agx.png[/IMG]
I got so much praise for this one at school it is what got me in to the position of doing graphic design for everyone who wanted anything -without pay :C-
Would be good to have critique on this one since I felt this was more solid when I made it.
Edit: nice to get real critique, school has just been a bunch of asskissing compared to this lol, thanks guys.
Also ignore the file compression I must have saved it badly when I sized it down, that definitely is not on the original.[/QUOTE]
pls pls pls get new fonts!!! this poster is a lot better than the other one, but these fonts are just atrocious. DELETE them take it away from this earth pls delete it from my lifeee
[QUOTE=RockSauce;36192296]pls pls pls get new fonts!!! this poster is a lot better than the other one, but these fonts are just atrocious. DELETE them take it away from this earth pls delete it from my lifeee[/QUOTE]
And what free online fonts or default would you suggest would have been better for this poster? From what I couod find there were readable and looked right for the event. Maybe I was wrong though
You cant just say they are horrid without telling me why or what else to do though c:
[QUOTE=Rusty100;36191086]Oh my[/QUOTE]
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Anybody know of decent tutorials on line work in photoshop? Just simple stuff like this:
[img]http://pokingsmot.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/The-Glitch-Mob-Drink-the-Sea-Album-Art-468x468.jpg[/img]
[QUOTE=dgg;36193472][URL]http://losttype.com/browse/[/URL]
[URL]http://fontfabric.com/category/free/[/URL][/QUOTE]
Thank for the links, those should be useful. But what specific is wrong with the fonts I have? what fonts would be better? What differentiates them. I thought these fonts were good/okay so obviously there must be wrong in my idea of what works for a font on a poster. ?
Just telling me the fonts or giving me new ones doesn't really help me understand the problem :)
they're just... really bad. there's not really any better way of putting it
there *can* be a time and place for such fonts, but they are few and far between, and this is definitely not one of them. the title font is just horrible, looks like it belongs on the album cover of a 14 year old 'band'. the body font isn't actually so bad, but it looks out of place with the rest of it.
i mean the whole thing... there's just a bunch of different messages being sent out and it's difficult to work out what's going on (aesthetically)
the Prom Extravaganza font says 14 year old goth/emo band
the swirly background says hippies/techno
the italicised serif font says (the word has completely escaped me but) classy/civilised
and the dress sketch thing? i don't even know what that's saying
but even then, with the nicer font it looks like you've distorted it;
the text at the top is very compressed, more so than i think you would achieve just using kerning/tracking and 'Sunday February' etc. looks like it's been stretched to fill the gap
what program are you using to do this in?
[editline]4th June 2012[/editline]
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36198150]Just telling me the fonts or giving me new ones doesn't really help me understand the problem :)[/QUOTE]
they're just ugly, there's not a lot that can be taught about that. though, to be fair, you said you were n high school (and i don't know how american school systems work) but i'm guessing you're fairly young, at least compared to some of us here *ahem*...
when i was younger i think i would have probably thought that font was good too, just because it's quite interesting and looks 'cool', but learning about design teaches you why fonts like that are bad... even though there's no real reason i can say other than it looks bad!
The body font wouldn't be that big of a deal if it fit and wasn't stretched ten different ways making it look worse than it might actually be.
And not only is the title font just bad in general, but it's nowhere near legible enough to be the title of the event. Not that it's legible enough for anything else either.
[QUOTE=Autumn;36198335]they're just... really bad. there's not really any better way of putting it
there *can* be a time and place for such fonts, but they are few and far between, and this is definitely not one of them. the title font is just horrible, looks like it belongs on the album cover of a 14 year old 'band'. the body font isn't actually so bad, but it looks out of place with the rest of it.
i mean the whole thing... there's just a bunch of different messages being sent out and it's difficult to work out what's going on (aesthetically)
the Prom Extravaganza font says 14 year old goth/emo band
the swirly background says hippies/techno
the italicised serif font says (the word has completely escaped me but) classy/civilised
and the dress sketch thing? i don't even know what that's saying
but even then, with the nicer font it looks like you've distorted it;
the text at the top is very compressed, more so than i think you would achieve just using kerning/tracking and 'Sunday February' etc. looks like it's been stretched to fill the gap
what program are you using to do this in?
[editline]4th June 2012[/editline]
they're just ugly, there's not a lot that can be taught about that. though, to be fair, you said you were n high school (and i don't know how american school systems work) but i'm guessing you're fairly young, at least compared to some of us here *ahem*...
when i was younger i think i would have probably thought that font was good too, just because it's quite interesting and looks 'cool', but learning about design teaches you why fonts like that are bad... even though there's no real reason i can say other than it looks bad![/QUOTE]
Thanks that is a bit more helpful :) Even if it is only just elaborating it's ugly lol.
What is Kerning/Tracking? (yeah as you can tell I don't have a proper education in this)
Canadian school system actually, but close enough. I'm in grade 12.
I used Photoshop for poster making. :) I don't really use it for anything else, but it has functioning text unlike my other programs.
I think I'm definitely getting the message I should not stretch text lol.
Okay, so here is a question, since it was one I had while I worked on that poster (and seem to have solved in the wrong way, by getting an overly detailed and flouncy font)
How would it be best to bring attention to the title with more than size and colour? I felt it needed a more detailed and fun font (it is a highschool event, so fun seemed a requirement) This was, fascinatingly, the most legible of the fonts I found which seemed good for that.
Better thing to have done would have been? :)
[QUOTE=MedicWine;36194361]Anybody know of decent tutorials on line work in photoshop? Just simple stuff like this:
[img]http://pokingsmot.net/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/The-Glitch-Mob-Drink-the-Sea-Album-Art-468x468.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I would do lines in illustrator / flash, and import / paste into photoshop, because the pen tool in photoshop is a bitch.
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36200109]Thanks that is a bit more helpful :) Even if it is only just elaborating it's ugly lol.
What is Kerning/Tracking? (yeah as you can tell I don't have a proper education in this)[/QUOTE]
they're to do with the spacing between letters. kerning is involving the space between single letters in a word, whereas tracking involves the whole word (or paragraph)
[img]http://www.outsmart360.com/alley/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/6-TRACKING-AND-KERNING.jpg[/img]
with most good fonts (again, i can't think of the word, but i mean well recognised fonts that are known for being of a high standard) the default kerning/tracking is pretty much fine, with just a little need for tweaking here and there, but with less standardised fonts there can be a big need for manual kerning, so it's worth having a little read up for the future
here's a little tutorial thing i just found which is only 2 pages long but seems to cover the basics - though to be fair the concept is pretty basic, it's just using it effectively that takes a bit of practice
[url]http://mos.futurenet.com/pdf/computerarts/ART148_tut_3.pdf[/url]
ooh, and there's a little game (which i'm sure has been posted here before) where you can see how your kerning matches up to what would/could be considered the standard in good design)
[url]http://type.method.ac/[/url]
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there's also leading, which is the space between the lines of text
[img]http://www.planetoftunes.com/dtp/dtp_media/fonts_typography/leading.gif[/img]
[QUOTE=Rhenae;36200109]How would it be best to bring attention to the title with more than size and colour? I felt it needed a more detailed and fun font (it is a highschool event, so fun seemed a requirement) This was, fascinatingly, the most legible of the fonts I found which seemed good for that.
Better thing to have done would have been? :)[/QUOTE]
giving the title some space to breathe would be a good start. at the moment it's all very cramped up at the top. i would leave twice the border between your title and edges of the poster that you have at the moment, and the bullet points need to be redone and probably repositioned lower down the page. if you really want to draw attention to the title then it should be the only thing at the top of the page, possibly with the exception of a little strapline underneath explaining the event, so they have some idea before they continue reading down the page.
if i'm honest i think that dress sketch needs to go, or be redone, 'cause at the moment it's a bit difficult making out what it is
the date should probably be a little bit bigger or more prominent, since it's very important information
the admission text is all over the place right now, left and centre (i think?) justified and too much leading
the sponsor names you could probably do in a nice condensed font, as i don't think you have any legal requirement to have it at a specific size for readability, and that would mean it could take up 2 lines at the bottom instead of 5, which gives you even more room to play with
if i'm honest there's not a lot about it i wouldn't change, but those are my 2 cents on how some improvements could be made
A quick logo i made for my friend. Feedback?:]
[IMG]http://img138.imageshack.us/img138/7882/bentleybeatslogofinal.png[/IMG]
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