Illustrated Rock Posters
Documentation
A course by Jorge Alderete , Illustrator and Designer
About the video: Documentation
Overview
“In this lesson, I will tell you how to document me graphically: looking for reference images; seeing what, historically, has been done before in relation to that band or that festival; reading texts that can contribute content to our work and, of course, listening to music.”
In this video lesson Jorge Alderete addresses the topic: Documentation, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Rock Posters. Learn to design a poster and turn it into a stereographic poster with 3D effects.
Partial transcription of the video
“Well, now we are going to start working fully With this particular project. First there are basic things that we learned at the time the order arrives. We already know who it is, what kind of event it is, what is the band or what are the bands They are going to play and so on. So that is a first information that will help us a lot when it comes to start landing an idea. To make our poster. In this case, I specifically already know many things I will show you about this project. It is a festival, that implies that they are more than one band. There are several bands that are going to play of...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Rock Posters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
3D, Advertising, Poster Design, Vector Illustration
Jorge Alderete
A course by Jorge Alderete
Argentine by birth, Alderete traveled from Patagonia to La Plata to study Visual Communication Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts of the National University of La Plata and has embraced his passion ever since.
His work has been published in various specialized anthologies, such as Illustration Now and Latin American Graphic Design (Taschen); Illusive, Pictoplasma, the Los Logos series, Latino, and Play Loud (Die Gestalten Verlag); and Place (Actar) and Kustom Graphics (Korero), among others; and his work has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world.
He is the founder, together with Juan Moragues, of the record label Isotonic Records, which specializes in instrumental rock, and he plays the theremin in the musical group Sonido Gallo Negro and does live illustrations during the shows. He has designed more than 100 pieces of album art for groups such as Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, Andrés Calamaro and Daniel Melero, Lost Acapulco, Twin Tones, and Los Straitjackets.
In 2008 he published his book, Yo soy un don nadie, in which he celebrates his first 10 years in CDMX. A year later, he founded the Vertigo Gallery together with Clarisa Moura. In 2012, two books that compile his work were published: Sonorama and Otro Yo. At the end of 2014, together with Harkaitz Cano and the Basque musician Fermín Muguruza, he published his first graphic novel, Black is Beltza.
Since 2015, he has been a member of AGI (Alliance Graphique Internacionale).
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