Alright, not gonna lie, not my favorite thing I've ever made. But, before I go any further, you may be looking at this thinking "it's not even finished!" Yes that is right, this is actually a process photo... and I'm not gonna show you the final because I messed it up a little in that open middle part. While this still isn't my favorite, to me this is at least presentable.
But let's get to the poster itself. First the positives!
I really like the colors on the poster first and foremost. To come up with this color scheme I took the picture you see in the middle right of the poster and put it in to the adobe kuler app to see what kind of colors they would suggest. Of all the color themes it came up with, I found that the schemes that utilized the most white black and red created the most interesting and clean look in regards to the object itself. The color scheme helped to make the poster easy to look at while not overwhelming the object itself.
I also like the idea for the font (although my handwritten stuff doesn't quite cut it) utilizing a sort of brush stroke type to pay a sort of tribute to the japanese origin of the teapot, while a bold but simple type provided a sort of contrast that kept things clean.
Also, I really liked the layout of the pictures, but honestly haven't quite figured out why exactly.
What I don't like on the other hand....
First the japanese writing. I really like the japanese writing on top, and the idea of using it in my final poster but here it simply looks to cluttered. I thought writing it in gray and lighting it up might help, but I'd definitely have to play around with that a bit and find out what works.
Also, to me there is simply too much white on this poster. While I really like the open white blocks that create nice open space, the amount of white everywhere on this poster makes it feel sort of bland and off putting to me.
Lastly, The lines I added on the side. I'm not gonna say much about those, because I simply had an idea, tried it out, and it just didn't work.
Any thoughts or suggestions? This is definitely just a preliminary poster, and there are gonna be some major changes, but opinions are always a great place to start if you want to make something really good right?
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