Hi Isaltino, thanks for posting your project. Here are my comments:
First, I appreciate seeing the variations of color experiments and poster designs. It’s always a good idea to create alternative designs—then you can select the one you like best, and if needed, make refinements to that design.
For me, your blue and pink color compositions are the strongest expressions of simultaneous contrast. I like the composition with the circles best—I’m happy that you chose it for your poster design!
The blue and yellow transparency illusion compositions are very successful—for me, the yellow shapes emerge and the blue shapes recede.
On the posters, I recommend working more with the type treatments, and perhaps consider using colors in the backgrounds.
On the transparency poster, the type at the bottom is definitely in the right position, but the wording needs to be fixed. The type should read:
Learning from Albers
An exhibition of color experiments performed
by students in a color workshop.
The placement of this type, aligned vertically with the yellow shape, is perfect.
The size and placement of the main title at the top looks good. Since black is the default color for type and therefore the most predictable, I would make the title blue, or perhaps the gray middle or “child” color of the overlapping shape.
The vertical stacked type on the left side is not a good idea—I would find a different treatment for this type.
Regarding stacked type, Ellen Lupton states in her excellent book “Thinking with Type”:
“Roman letters are designed to sit side by side, not on top of one another… Stacks of lowercase letters are especially awkward because the ascenders and descenders make vertical spacing uneven, and the varied width of the characters makes the stacks look precarious.”
For more information about stacking type, check the “Vertical Alignment” section of “Thinking with Type.”
The typography on the blue and pink poster looks good. The only change I recommend is to correct the wording in the subtitle to read:
Learning from Albers
An exhibition of color experiments
performed by students in a color workshop.
I think that’s it! Again, this is an excellent project overall. If you decide to work more on these designs, please post them and I will add comments.
2 comments
Hi Isaltino, thanks for posting your project. Here are my comments:
First, I appreciate seeing the variations of color experiments and poster designs. It’s always a good idea to create alternative designs—then you can select the one you like best, and if needed, make refinements to that design.
For me, your blue and pink color compositions are the strongest expressions of simultaneous contrast. I like the composition with the circles best—I’m happy that you chose it for your poster design!
The blue and yellow transparency illusion compositions are very successful—for me, the yellow shapes emerge and the blue shapes recede.
On the posters, I recommend working more with the type treatments, and perhaps consider using colors in the backgrounds.
On the transparency poster, the type at the bottom is definitely in the right position, but the wording needs to be fixed. The type should read:
Learning from Albers
An exhibition of color experiments performed
by students in a color workshop.
The placement of this type, aligned vertically with the yellow shape, is perfect.
The size and placement of the main title at the top looks good. Since black is the default color for type and therefore the most predictable, I would make the title blue, or perhaps the gray middle or “child” color of the overlapping shape.
The vertical stacked type on the left side is not a good idea—I would find a different treatment for this type.
Regarding stacked type, Ellen Lupton states in her excellent book “Thinking with Type”:
“Roman letters are designed to sit side by side, not on top of one another… Stacks of lowercase letters are especially awkward because the ascenders and descenders make vertical spacing uneven, and the varied width of the characters makes the stacks look precarious.”
For more information about stacking type, check the “Vertical Alignment” section of “Thinking with Type.”
The typography on the blue and pink poster looks good. The only change I recommend is to correct the wording in the subtitle to read:
Learning from Albers
An exhibition of color experiments
performed by students in a color workshop.
I think that’s it! Again, this is an excellent project overall. If you decide to work more on these designs, please post them and I will add comments.
Olá Richard Mehl, muito obrigado por suas preciosas recomendações. Fico feliz por seus comentários!
Log in or join for Free to comment