Class 5 - Poster and Plate Design 101

Intellectio

• What is your topic 
• When, Where, Why, For WHOM
• References and Sources 

Inventio

• Key arguments 
• What do I want to say 
• What do I want to tell 
• 30 second pitch - One phrase 

Poster Design - Honestly torn between everything - how to narrow - what is most important to me?

• Change takes time and perseverance - Transformation
• Discover your world :) - go out and PLAY
• 1 in 3 women will be raped in her lifetime :(
• Food Costs ;)
• Cheap Protein - Fast Food or Lentils 
• Cheap Vegetables - French Fries and K or Boiled Broccoli 
• Cheap Fruit - Juice or what ever is in season 
• Cheap carbs - Kellogs or Oats 
• Its about CHOICE 
• Willpower is a choice :) 
• Internet porn - violence and relationships :(

 Ok I will begin to research and think about these things in the mean time and on a happier note
the plate design

Ideas

• Art Deco or Art Nouveau (think Erte and Mucha) for Anthropologie or Kate Spade
• Islamic art of the Fatimid Period (think Alhambra and Taj Mahal) for Tiffanie's or Hermes
• Pop Art (think Warhol) or Surrealism (think Arp or Miro) for Agatha Ruiz de La Prada 
• Dada (think Magritte and Duchamp) for the MOMA or HunkyDory Home uk 

I am thinking more along designing one plate for Tiffanie's or Kate Spade, and a series of plates either for HunkyDoryHome uk or Agatha Ruiz de La Prada

Today we learned about Clipping Masks and Creating your own brush in Photoshop
 Fun!! - Yes I learned something again!!
 So clipping masks - Between two layers, and placing the layer on top that you want to fit into the layer below, in the layers window place your cursor over the area between two layers while holding down the option key; you should see the hand turn to a mini ven diagram and click - Yay!!
PS -you must make sure that the layer being clipped into (the one below) is on a checkered background - meaning part is invisible, or it wont really work. 

Also creating brush pre sets - To create your own brush - make a brush using a pencil or brush, then find Edit at the top menu bar, and then clicking on it go down until you come to "define brush preset".
Click and name the brush and then save it and use it! :)

Plate with clipped random brush strokes and dots. I have also added a gradient to the brush layer.

Large rose images taken from the internet and clipped into the plate.

Plate with white overlay onto which a pattern of graph paper is over top. Brush preset created of squiggle and replicated. 

Two brush presets created and put on plate in rotating pattern via transforms. 

Brush preset created along with imposed clipped image into plate, and text.