Moogvertisements

I sort of just realized I forgot to upload these ad designs from a couple of weeks ago. Whoops!

  

My intent was to create sort of a surreal collage using this bird book I had lying around and a collection of old restored Russian photography I found in the GSU library. The tagline is supposed to work on two levels: missing, as in "missing out" on, by of course not owning a Moog synthesizer, and missing, as in "longing for," referring to the nostalgic warmth of analog synths.

Teach Me How to Screen Print

Seriously, though. I took a printmaking class at the newly named University of North Georgia (previously Gainesville State) this past spring and it was absolutely amazing. Learning several printmaking processes has come to be the primary inspiration to any of my artwork. Although I did linocut, monotype, etching, and intaglio printing, I unfortunately never screen printed. Which brings me to my current project, the event poster design. Naturally, graphic design and printmaking go hand-in-hand. I found some beautiful screen printed posters by a Chicago couple that completely blew me away. I've never seen graphic design approached in this manner at all. Check them out.

Here's a poster they made for one of my favorite bands, The Antlers. I hope to approach this project with a similar sense of abstraction and boundary-breaking as they have in their amazing designs.

Inspiration

Beth Hoeckel is a collage artist that has been particularly inspiring my work during this project, go check her stuff out.

Side note: unfortunately I missed my class this morning. I woke up around 9:45 or so to find my power had gone out and my alarm clock was reset. My backup alarm on my phone never went off, either. It really sucks because I was up until about 2 am finishing my ad-designs. So I apologize to my classmates, if you guys are reading this, that I wasn't there for our progress critique. I really wanted to see everyone's work so far. I'll most likely post mine here, but I don't like to post my work usually until I think it's finished. Sorry I wasn't there and see you all Tuesday. (:

Meow

I've been wrestling with a few taglines and throwing out some initial ideas but I think I've got some general layouts and images ready to assemble into these things. I'm designing advertisements for Moog's synthesizers. I'm thinking a lot about cats and birds.

p.s. I can't seem to post on this thing regularly enough. whoops.