E.C. Post 2

For this set of images, I thought about having them as one of my regular posts, however they seemed more like an advertising campaign that genuine artwork. Don't get me wrong, it is still good design, but I need some extra credit.

Again, these designs are very simple and if you can't already tell this is a campaign for Foster's beer, with the spokesperson from the Crocodile Dundee Movies. Looking at the billboard first, you can see simplicity...big words, big can, spokes man...Now you want a beer.

The second image from the same book, is more of a magazine advertisement that gives all the specs about that tasty beverage. You can see the repetition of the big beer can, and spokesperson so it will catch your attention again when you drive to work.

To me that last image looks more like something that you could see either on TV or even in another magazine. Just to think, you are reading the horoscopes in the morning, you see the second ad above and think "hmmmm." You take off for work and see the billboard, and think "hmmmm." You get off work and pick up a newspaper and find this third image as an ad in there and think "hmmmm....thats it time for a beer!"

Nice simple advertising campaign.






hmmmm....

Post 10 - for 03/25/08

Well in this billboard design that I found, it is simple but to the point. At first I was not going to put this on online, however I looked deeper into the picture and found out that graphic design was a great part of this image. For one thing, it looks like it could be done by a child, just roughly painted edges of billboard material, but no. If you can zoom in on this image, you can see that on the edges of the black areas, there are still areas that seem to be on fire. Someone, a graphic designer, had to add those little touches in there. Besides the rough edges, take a look at ol' smoky. It seems like he has a shadow from under his hat to shade out his eyes, a highlight on top of his hat to show the sunlight coming down on him, and the overall texture of his fur. All those elements lead to graphic design--but it is so simple!

Post 9 - 03/11/08

I found this billboard ad in that nifty book again.

I liked this one because I am a Pepsi fan and it has some truth to it about recycling and makeing new products out of the old. I know that there is not too much graphic design in it the overall images, but you can see that this billboard ad is an older one since they had the old Pepsi logo on it and design on it. Since I am on the subject, has anyone really looked at the newer pepsi designs with all the crazy lines and shapes on it. To me it is almost getting to hard to really understand that it is really pepsi, except for the fact that Pepsi has the blue cans. I work in retail, and we get alot of customers who accidently pick up Diet Pepsi instead of regular Pepsi because the designs are so alike now. They really need to go back to something more simple. On the other hand, you look at the Coke products, they seem to still have the simplistic designs on their cans and bottles. No matter where you go to, you can recognize a coke product.

Post 8 - 03/06/08

Well for this post I found a neat Billboard that I believe has to do with adoption and helping out the pet population.

I liked this billboard due to the underlined problems that the world is facing with both pets and people. If you haven't noticed, they are all dogs and cats that are standing upright as if they are real people. For me, I understand that they are all strays trying to stay alive, but to get the point across they are all upright like humans.

The other part of the image that I can see; being that are all upright like humans poses the fact that they are all humans, but portrayed as animals out on the streets. If you think of the homeless population across the world, especially in the big cities, there are hundreds of them. When someone encounters them, the treat them as skum of the earth, or as filthy animals. Well they can not help being the way they are. The world just goes on with its life and leaves them behind.

I really do like the overall attention to detail and the dedication to all the other figures in the background as well. That must have taken alot of time and work to get something that well to come out.