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thingsorganizedneatly: SUBMISSION: Tom Davie | Heavy Metal Typographic Poster | 2011 http://studiotwentysix2.com/ The use of the words real meaning to build a visual representation comes through well in this deception of heavy metal. A sense of weight to the word is instantly added due to the use of metals to write out the letter M. The way that heavy metal is spelled contrasts its meaning and its visual representation.
This Mad Men ad depicts the main character looking into what is essentially the view of women and men in that time period. However he is seeing this in the form of a store display, just like how other scenes of life are shown in reality. It creates the illusion that he is looking into his own reflection of life.
This poster I think is supposed to be a play on the posters for the movie Drive. The colors used sort of just fit Falcon so well that one could assume this is just a new advertisement campaign for Super Smash Bros. The colour gradient adds that Miami Vice/80’s feel to the whole poster and the cursive font gives a sleek style that already comes with Captain Falcon alone.
Pepsi Perfect is a fictional drink made for the movie Back to the Future. the mix of type give the logo a futuristic look along with the lines of the red and blue halves. The diagonals of the stick of the P guide the viewers eye towards the “new” version of Pepsi.
youmightfindyourself: I discuss the science of logos on GOOD. A play on the California Bear flag by a bubble tea company. This is a company that I have seen grow while following this tumblr and have seen the growth of their logo and their design process.
Not really sure on the plot of the movie, but the use of the DNA strand as the exhaust trail is effective. The use of colour adds a cold sense to a very exhilarating processes and is further brought down by the use of a black and white image. Even the way the type is and its “plainness” adds to the sense of drama and despair that I get from this poster.
dailymovement: Dr. Kent Weeks I think this ad is for a brewery in Brooklyn and if so than the text at the top is perfect. The use of hieroglyphs, which are symbol based and early forms of communicative design, is used out of context to show that beer is universal.
This is a clever ad in that it incorporates its surrounding into the ad itself. Having people that seem to be the actual size of a real human also adds to its effect. The people truly look as if they are “escaping” and going into a paradise, in this case Jamaica.