Brighton Fringe Postcards Experiments

Brighton Fringe Postcards Experiments

Step one I rotated the canvas 90% and dragged a photo in which I free transformed it and made fill the A4 screen. This was only if you wanted a photo and colour in the post card

This sort of Photoshop technique is simple. First I duplicated the layer and on the Background, step 3 I made got the bucket tool and put the colour to purple and changed layer 1, after doing so I dragged it over the top of the photo.

The I wanted to use typography so I got the writing tool enlarged the size and changed the colour back to white from purple and went to bold italic on the typography style. Then step 5 when I was pleased with the size of the letters I went to layer, merge down and then on the rubber tool I changed to magic rubber tool and deleted the insides of the letters so it showed the Brighton dome in the background.

After that, I was finished though on some of the others as you can see I put shapes in that mirrored the shapes of the letters below and did step five over again. Here are my experiments in the way of Pam and Jenny.

As I started to get tired with the simple, dull post cards, I moved onto developing the layers of my Photoshop and the colours as well adding ink splashes and making it more of a creative piece of art and detailed design for a postcard.

After doing so we found out the theme of the brighton festival which is where these designs are for though I only started putting the logo on towards the end, and made a range of different post card varities all ranging in the colours they showed and their size of the Brighton dome. 

Brighton Fringe Festival Post cards

Brighton Postcards

The steps I took in creating this postcard was first to take the image of the brighton pavillion from the Ldrive, and uploaded it into photoshop, step2 I edited the image and converted it into a black and white copy and took most of the filling of the building out of it and then took changed the Image with filter to "sketch" and converted it to the colour blue, step3 I used th gradient tool for the background colour blue and then the "magic tool" to delete the colour blue out and then overlayed the image with drips of ink and "brighton fringe 2012". I like it, but I could of had it bigger and more stripes of white say 2 instead of 1.

step 1 I used the same process as in post card 1, but this time I converted it to a black and white Image and made it larger, keeping a grey background. Then I used blue and purple drips of ink from the Ldrive and then "Brighton fringe festival 2012" with a purple and red writing to show the frequency of it going from blue to red. I like it but I could of scaled up to dome and made parts of it darker with smaller text and drips in it.

I took an Image of a person looking out to the beach in brighton from the pier and then corveted it into to a smart image and cut it out, then I used the gradient tool for the inside of an image, fiorst with the rainbow and then with orange and yellow. I put text into the Image and overlayed it ontop, then with the second image I used the transform tool and warped the text to make it wavy as if in the shadows. I like the white space and text in the foreground of the images.

I took a different image from Ldrive into Black and white and then used the eraser tol to remove the bottom part of the Brighton Dome. Step2 I made a new page and copied a Image over the page and again used the eraser tool to remove the bottom part of the image, then once done I used the eraser tool for the sky inbetween "BRIGHTON" and ontop and then selected what was tleft and copied it iver to the background Image fo the Brghton Pier and then copied the Brighton Fringe Festival on to it. I liked the Image of the brighton dome with its pure black and white, but I think if I changed the "BRIGHTON" to balck and white and scaled it down to look part of the Image it would look more together and the "Brighton Fringe Fetsival 2012" would stand out more, thoughas it is it looks pretty good with the Brighton text overlaying the background with colour and standing out more.

Art Timeline

Events that Influenced Art

Visual Typography

Avant Garde

I really like this one because it gives a sort of wild, circle, curved shape and a fantasy, magical look to it its new, advanced yet different. Avant garde is just that its explorative, experimental, and innovative just like this artist movement, I think that the words experiment this art movement well, its funky, creepy and wild looking.

Love

I really enjoy doing this sort of art, Love as a word its strikes me as growth, fearless, happy, adventures and this makes me feel happy myself especially when drawing it or thinking about it somewhat strong and foundational, its flowing and infinate, I think the curves and flowing long stylish letters gives us an indacation of that realable power love is.

Horror

This is opposite to Happiness, its horror and that in its self gives us an indacation of what it is and means, horrendous and unthinkably evil. I don’t like the thought of this and that’s because its cruel, I like the drips and the method you can create horror buts its meaning makes me feel surprised at what conflict does happen through both good and evil, but in the end truth will previal.

Calm

When I  think of this I think of happy memories done through the milk of human kindness, and the help and service that goes on through the world in helping others and loving others to become better and improved. Development is the real meaning of what calmness gives to me and that its that life is all about becoming happy and desiring goodness, happiness, and a real sense of inner peace.

Machine

The movement part of art, machine, strong, automatic and fast. This word expresses to me the feel of speed and strength, Its robotic and powerful that is why in my words ive used lots of fantastic looking lines and shapes that look like body armour and parts that should be on cars, and this gives me a feel of advanced era’s and how the world is moving on and improving industrily.

Conflict

I really like the movement and sharp edges you geet in conflict and layers you get with letters moving on top of eachother, and also the 3-d effect you get with the words and also the voilent expressoinism you get with the spikes and curved lines making the lines look like knifes.

ED Fella

ED Fella

ED Fella was born in 1938 in Detroit, Rome, he is an artist and graphic designer who’s work has an important role on the influence of contemporary art. ED worked as a commercial artist designing brochures and illustrations, he practiced at this style of commercial sale art for 30 years and worked with drawings and typography. He has since devoted his time to teaching at California institute of the arts and his own self-published work has appeared in many design publications. In 1997 he received the Chrysler Award, in 1999 an honorary Doctorate from CCS in Detroit and in 2007 he became an AIGA medalist.

His work contains a grid-less typography, his style has outstanding use of hand writing and grid layout with an interesting use of colours and the way he uses a range of text and type face all in different styles, he is a free lance artist using pencils, ballpoint pens, crayons, Knives and other materials such as black and white paper. He ahs always don’t it by hand never using a computer.

Jonathon Barnbrock

Jonathon Barnbrook

Barnbrook is one of the most well-known creative studios in Britain.
Our team of designers specialize in producing initiative ideas, corporative identities, CD covers, custom fonts, websites and magazines. Our clients range from international museums to charitable  organizations. We have worked and won many awards in the area of motion pictures working for clients such as the BBC and Grey advertising alongside producing self-initiated projects. Barnbrook also releases original fonts through Virus Fonts that are used extensively worldwide. Our contribution to graphic design was recognized by a major exhibition at the Design Museum London in 2007.

I really like Jon Barnbrook’s art work and how he uses landscape photos of posters, scaffolds, building sites and then photos f labeled books he’s developed and folders or leaflets, also how he creates more an effect by using typography to express it. I like how he also uses typography to show different stories and themes.

Barnbrook is one of the most well-known creative studios in Britain.
Our team of designers specialize in producing initiative ideas, corporative identities, CD covers, custom fonts, websites and magazines. Our clients range from international museums to charitable  organizations. We have worked and won many awards in the area of motion pictures working for clients such as the BBC and Grey advertising alongside producing self-initiated projects. Barnbrook also releases original fonts through Virus Fonts that are used extensively worldwide. Our contribution to graphic design was recognized by a major exhibition at the Design Museum London in 2007.