go back to the clean aesthetic
i'm really excited about this new assignment for design class. it's to create a concert poster for a completely made-up band. i was in the printing room the other day, and there was a print on the wall of just a bunch of greytone pixels arranged in a square. and i think that was the starting point for my bizarre interest in chiptunes, which is the term for old school video game-type sound. and i began to imagine that the band i was making the poster for would be geeks who wire up their gameboys and nintendos to sample soundtracks from mario and pokemon and zelda, and also create their own compositions using the very distinctive synthesized sound of those video games. this is really just excuse to look at pixel art, of course. and listen to chiptunes. omg it's awesome.
you guys really have to listen/look at this. and this is the website of a pixel artist who's really great. he's created a whole host of characters out of pixels and they're just so intricate. and all the pixel cities you can easily find on google. the level of detail is so astounding that i begin to doubt that i ever described my sketches as "detailed". i want to abandon my education and career and join the pixel-art-circus. it's a little sad that i don't have the time to learn how to, and then do up a crazy detailed pixelscape for the purposes of this assignment but i really want to try it sometime!
so i've come up with a few compositions, but the crunching deadline (due on thursday, no mock-ups, just the final poster why???) and those months at ampersand dictate that i go for the minimalist solution, which features the ubiquitous space invader (or maybe modified to become fish) with a glow-in-the-dark border. gimmicky, yes, but we're dealing with hypothetical professional geeks here okay? (also because glow-in-the-dark is eternally awesome) my band is tentatively (the?) Galactic Fish but friends if you have better ideas, i'm wide open to them 8D i'm also thinking about presenting a publicity idea of making shit-tons of glo-stickers a la guerilla street campaign, because it's viral and so everyone on the streets will see the posters at bus-stops and on billboards, and then see those stickers at traffic lights and on random walls, which will really amplify the hypothetical concert's publicity. (again, also because stickers are freakin' awesome!) i am eight years old again. :D
you guys really have to listen/look at this. and this is the website of a pixel artist who's really great. he's created a whole host of characters out of pixels and they're just so intricate. and all the pixel cities you can easily find on google. the level of detail is so astounding that i begin to doubt that i ever described my sketches as "detailed". i want to abandon my education and career and join the pixel-art-circus. it's a little sad that i don't have the time to learn how to, and then do up a crazy detailed pixelscape for the purposes of this assignment but i really want to try it sometime!
so i've come up with a few compositions, but the crunching deadline (due on thursday, no mock-ups, just the final poster why???) and those months at ampersand dictate that i go for the minimalist solution, which features the ubiquitous space invader (or maybe modified to become fish) with a glow-in-the-dark border. gimmicky, yes, but we're dealing with hypothetical professional geeks here okay? (also because glow-in-the-dark is eternally awesome) my band is tentatively (the?) Galactic Fish but friends if you have better ideas, i'm wide open to them 8D i'm also thinking about presenting a publicity idea of making shit-tons of glo-stickers a la guerilla street campaign, because it's viral and so everyone on the streets will see the posters at bus-stops and on billboards, and then see those stickers at traffic lights and on random walls, which will really amplify the hypothetical concert's publicity. (again, also because stickers are freakin' awesome!) i am eight years old again. :D