2011
Digital collage of salvaged game imagery
11 x 17 inches
I was recently asked to create a poster for Atlanta's Little Tybee. After a lot of layering and a lot of recoloring, I am quite proud to present the present image.
First off & most importantly: before you read any further, you need to check out Little Tybee:
If you check out their playlist on Myspace, I would like to suggest in particular the songs "Orchard", "Fallen Bird", and "Nero". Also, if I may recommend the first song of their I ever heard, the aforementioned video "History".
Aren't they good? This is exactly why, when Brock Scott asked me to do a design for them, I was all kinds of "YES"!
About the poster:
When Brock Scott asked me to make a poster for Little Tybee, I quickly hashed out some of the larger elements, the "skeleton" of the design, if you will:
As I worked on the design, the idea of overlapping totally different spaces began to color my decisions. A large, possibly busted-open beehive at the top, dissolving into mountains, which seem themselves solid enough until you realize they are emanating from thin air in a sunset at the extreme bottom.
I really liked this play on pictorial space and it also helped guide my organization of the foreground objects as well. At the more insectoid, mathematical top of the design, everything is very organized and symmetrical. At the bottom, things are totally asymmetrical and surreal. However, there's still a little bit of symmetry in the waspnest flower at the bottom to keep from cutting the design in half (between totally symmetrical and totally asymmetrical; Montagues and Capulets!) and pull your eye down to see all the fun stuff going on in the corners.
When I was building the bottom left corner, I took a cue from the album cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". The weird assortment of everyday things is based completely on the Magritte-ish feel of Pink Moon's front and back cover. In fact, for the longest time I thought Nick Drake had simply used a Magritte painting for the album; is anyone else with me on that?
My last major addition to the design was the floating castle and the pink ship. I needed something in either the left or right of the middle to pull your eye up out of the bottom to keep things moving. I did have to fix all the achromatic blacks in the floating castle, though. It made the castle waaaay too heavy.
The dissolving effect with the sky and the smaller honeycomb pattern was done using the Lighter Color layer effect on the blue sky layer. Easy as pie!
Digital collage of salvaged game imagery
11 x 17 inches
I was recently asked to create a poster for Atlanta's Little Tybee. After a lot of layering and a lot of recoloring, I am quite proud to present the present image.
First off & most importantly: before you read any further, you need to check out Little Tybee:
If you check out their playlist on Myspace, I would like to suggest in particular the songs "Orchard", "Fallen Bird", and "Nero". Also, if I may recommend the first song of their I ever heard, the aforementioned video "History".
Aren't they good? This is exactly why, when Brock Scott asked me to do a design for them, I was all kinds of "YES"!
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About the poster:
When Brock Scott asked me to make a poster for Little Tybee, I quickly hashed out some of the larger elements, the "skeleton" of the design, if you will:
As I worked on the design, the idea of overlapping totally different spaces began to color my decisions. A large, possibly busted-open beehive at the top, dissolving into mountains, which seem themselves solid enough until you realize they are emanating from thin air in a sunset at the extreme bottom.
I really liked this play on pictorial space and it also helped guide my organization of the foreground objects as well. At the more insectoid, mathematical top of the design, everything is very organized and symmetrical. At the bottom, things are totally asymmetrical and surreal. However, there's still a little bit of symmetry in the waspnest flower at the bottom to keep from cutting the design in half (between totally symmetrical and totally asymmetrical; Montagues and Capulets!) and pull your eye down to see all the fun stuff going on in the corners.
When I was building the bottom left corner, I took a cue from the album cover of Nick Drake's "Pink Moon". The weird assortment of everyday things is based completely on the Magritte-ish feel of Pink Moon's front and back cover. In fact, for the longest time I thought Nick Drake had simply used a Magritte painting for the album; is anyone else with me on that?
My last major addition to the design was the floating castle and the pink ship. I needed something in either the left or right of the middle to pull your eye up out of the bottom to keep things moving. I did have to fix all the achromatic blacks in the floating castle, though. It made the castle waaaay too heavy.
The dissolving effect with the sky and the smaller honeycomb pattern was done using the Lighter Color layer effect on the blue sky layer. Easy as pie!
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