Illustrated Posters
The composition (Part I)
A course by Xavi Forné , Designer
About the video: The composition (Part I)
Overview
“In this lesson we choose the size of the poster and we add the first graphic elements. We will have to clean the images and resize them to create a scene full of action.”
In this video lesson Xavi Forné addresses the topic: The composition (Part I), which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustrated Posters. Design a poster for an event, movie, or concert.
Partial transcription of the video
“We go to one of the strong points of the poster design now that we have the selected images that interest us we are going to develop the composition and for that we are going to see how we prepare the images that we have downloaded or scanned to mount it well. The first thing we're going to do is create a new document, not we're going to need a lot more than the layers and a little text preferences and such but that already we'll see it later, from moment the layers and that's it. Let's make a new document. The important thing is, that this to 300 of resolution that is the minimum resolutio...”
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Course summary for: Illustrated Posters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Advertising, Fine Arts, Poster Design
Xavi Forné
A course by Xavi Forné
Xavi Forné started making his first posters 15 years ago as a hobby and is now one of the most respected Spanish artists in the field.
This designer, illustrator, and musician is the brilliant mind behind Error! Design. He's worked alongside international bands such as The Black Keys, Red Fang, Soundgarden, Wilco, Anathema, Neurosis, Russian Circles, Ólafur Arnalds, Mineral, Turbonegro, Pissed Jeans, Nada Surf, and Tortoise, as well as with some of Spains most prominent bands like La Maravillosa Orquesta del Alcohol, Berri Txarrak, Love of Lesbian, Standstill, and L.A.
He is the founder of The Poster Collective, the first concert poster portal made up solely of Spanish designers, and in his spare time he has hundreds of musical projects on the go.
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