Week 3 | August 13th, 2019 | Prasad Joshi

In the third week of Imaging, we were told to present our posters, the ideas behind them, and the principles used to create them.

My Topic revolved around the idea of “Save the Bees”. Bees are under a huge extinction threat in the 21st century and it is important for us to save them, because they pollinate plants and create more vegetation for humans to survive. Without bees, there will be no humans. Therefore, I made a poster that revolved around the idea of bees slowly moving towards extinction to make the audience realise the severity of the situation.

Gestalt Principles:
The principles that I used were closure (in the body of the bees), continuity (with the bees are moving towards the extinction symbol), repetition (in the bees and the hexagons), and symmetry (in the body of the bees).

After presenting all of our posters, we were taught how to use the blend tool on Illustrator. I explored how it can be used to create several different designs and also took advantage of the colour wheel in the blend tool to create different effects. Below is a little bit of my experimentation:

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Using the skills we learned in this class and previous classes, we were told to create a poster of our choice with these tools. I chose to explore these tools by creating a music album poster for one of my favorite artists: Taylor Swift:

In the background, I learned how to use the gradient window to create different gradient effects. I chose to use pastel and neon colors because that is the theme of the artist’s next album. I used the blend tool for the “AUG 23” writing, the rest was created by using the pen tool.

At first, I struggled while using the pen tool. I forgot to close the paths and therefore it was too late for me to fill colour in different parts of the drawing.