A small poster project for my own enjoyment. I wanted to do 4 posters based on the "big" things.. Life, Love, Destiny and Death. And I wanted to limit myself to very few symbols and a fixed layout across all designs. You like..?
I have toyed around with a "White Rabbit" poster. For the uninitiated... White Rabbit is a song by Jefferson Airplane on the LP Surrealistic Pillow. And it is a song about psychedelia and pills :-) I wanted to stray away from the usual psychedelic interpretation of the song in favor of a colder and more formal interpretation with a focus on the pills geometric beauty.
I have enjoyed playing around with the heavy stuff. Life, Love, Destiny and Death. I wanted all posters to use an absolute minimum of elements, so I went with heart, paper boats, ocean, stars and land.
Life is the last of a series of 4 postes, Life, Love, Destiny and Death. I have been struggling with the Life poster. I am not entirely happy. Mostly because I can't make Illustrator do what I want to do. Silly thing! I wanted to convey something about navigating between a lot of different options or "lands"
So this is the LOVE poster out the series with Death, Destiny, Love and Life. I have been struggling with the last two posters, Love and Life, but I am quite satisfied with this Love poster now. Better now, than it was before, at least.
This is the "Death" poster. One of 4 posters about the "biggest things", Death, Life, Destiny and Love. There are rules to the game...
I only want to use a minimum of symbols. Paper Boat, Heart, Sea, Stars and Land. It was way more difficult than I thought it would be, because you start reflecting (as you should) on what these "big things" actually mean and "are"?
So the "Death" poster ended being a positive vision of death as "a solitary returning to a loving place". Which we may hope it is :-)
I found a nice stock of a paper boat which I made some variations over. Such a simple design, and such fun to play around with the symbolism of a fragile paper shape. I wanted to make a series of Love, Death, Destiny and Life, but the Life thing proved difficult to figure out. This is Destiny, but I am not super satisisfied with that either.
A spoof poster playing around with some old design elements. I have a small POD shop which is going nowhere, I believe, where I experiment with different kind of designs. Mostly canvas print, but I have also spent a LOT of time trying my hand at t-shirt print too. Which also went nowhere :-) But this poster is for the fun of it! Adobe Illustrator is like a box of candies!
Having fun with Adobe Illustrator and some old designs. The nails were originally a tshirt design which covered an entire tee in these nails. Looked awesome, sold absolutely nothing :-) So this is just a bit of boredom fun with a poster by the famous Hammerstein...
Been fiddling a bit with a pill themed poster. So much fun working in Adobe Illustrator :-) Probably not selling a lot of pills this design, though.
Bit of fun experimenting with some common shapes. I kinda like the colors and the pill, but the body builder shape, does not really look right. Tried different colors, but I believe it is probably the shapes level of detail, that puts me off.
Bit of fun experimenting with a design that was originally meant for some "t-shirt thing". I like the shape of the pills and the options they give for working with different color schemes. I'm honestly not really sure what kind meaning I want to convey with the title, but something about loosing your direction was on my mind. Made using Adobe Illustrator
Once in a long while, I get this feeling, that I really, really need to learn how to use pastel colors. And every time I realize, that they just are so bloody difficult to use!. So this was another "pastel experiment" with "something pill related"
Bit of fun with the title from an old song. My thinking went along a theme of erasure of identity.