Poster
Again,
I'm still a quest to look at as many posters as possible to broaden my mind for
the PKN poster. This one is from the student section of CMKY magazine for the Complexions Ballet. A little background
was given with the piece to give it context:
Complexions
Ballet presents a contemporary and continually evolving form of dance which
transcends the limiting traditions of a single style, period, venue, or
culture. The challenge was to create a design which would give a nod to the
traditional form of ballet while bringing in their ground breaking mix of
methods, styles, and cultures.
I
find this piece very captivating and creative. The typefaces used are a mixture
of hand-drawn upper and lower case letterform treatments, as well as, hand-drawn
script. The text itself creates the image of the dancer. The words that were
chosen, aside from the names of the principal dancers, reflect the piece to be
performed (gone, rise, moon, light &, fall). The designer uses a splash of
white to emphasize the lines of the body and magenta for the tu-tu. To add
interest and pull the piece together, the designer adds white to the center of
some of the letters. This piece is so clever and truly reflects the unusual
dance style that is portrayed in the explanation of the Complexions
Contemporary Ballet.
Oh yeah, it uses Paul's poster rule for only huge/tiny text - Complexions A Contemporary Ballet (Huge) and the rest of the text (tiny).
Source: CMKY Magazine, Volume 52, 2012, p61.
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