The cuts on this slideshow are from a series of posters I did as personal work, on 2010. This first piece was about time and how it seems to be running faster and faster. I was celebrating the gone of a brand new old year and the arrival of a new one. Which already has become an elder, by the way.
Can we accept that even an apparently complex and solid structure is completely possible to suddenly crumble? That is the idea behind this poster. The male figure struggling with his own fragility. Click here to see the poster.
Actually, this was the first piece. It was an experiment to see what I could find on my own creative process that could bring to my works more consistence. Working always on the same grid and trying to manipulate only basic elements of design, I wanted to know what could I achieve.
Birth, sun, ovule, yolk, a, b, c, points, squares and triangles; lines, shapes... The bases together representing the simplicity wich comes with every beginning. Evolution starts from the micro to the macro, from the simple to the complex... Well, I think you got it...
An attempt to distort the perspective of each visual element on this piece. I took inspirations from architecture and wanted to play around mainly with blocks, avoiding curved lines and forms. Like on the previous image, the grid became part of the composition.
From the question: "Can I really apply that creative process on professional projects?", I did this poster. It simulates an editorial piece about the actress Penélope Cruz Sánchez. I was looking for something fashionable, yet pretty simple.
"...He explained that success in ski racing, or most sports for that matter, was only 40% physical training. The other 60% was mental. And of that, the first 30% was technical skill and experience. The second 30% was the willingness to take risks." - Michael Schwalbe
Using the Fontfabric´s VAL free font , I wanted to simulate a festival poster, organizing all the info using numbers, colors and shapes as support for the typographic elements.
Using the Fontfabric´s VAL free font , I wanted to simulate a festival poster, organizing all the info using numbers, colors and shapes as support for the typographic elements. This is only a variation, a second version.
I was just exploring balance through proximity, size, position and shape contrast. The shadow projected suggests depth and an illusion of light. Also, the simulation of the shadow´s inclination creates an illusion of movement and of pass of time.
I was just exploring balance through proximity, size, position and shape contrast. The shadow projected suggests depth and an illusion of light. Also, the simulation of the shadow´s inclination creates an illusion of movement and of pass of time.
I was just exploring balance through proximity, size, position and shape contrast. The shadow projected suggests depth and an illusion of light. Also, the simulation of the shadow´s inclination creates an illusion of movement and of pass of time.
A chaotic composition where the goal was to use textures and blur to get a sense of depth and movement. Fontfabric´s LOT is the free typography presented on this poster.
Like in a spectacle, this poster is presenting its main elements as characters: illustration by Raphael Vicenzi / Fontfabric´s DAN free font / Typedepot´s Barrister Sans Ligth and composition by me.
It says Total Tension but it´s also a quibble for Total Attention, in portuguese. I wanted to use geometric shapes, strong color combination and the tension was expressed by sizes, position and movement between the elements. Yet, a lot of blur was used to enhance the drama of this scene.
I was studying The Divine Proportion and trying to apply to a graphic design piece, like a poster. Then I thought that could be a good exercise to create something on 3d, like a packshot from a simple product. As a result I got this gadget, which has my result of the golden ratio study on it´s back cover. The hole scene is extremely simple: the models were done with box modeling technique and were lit with a very basic three point light setup. I used an architectural material for all the parts with reflaction/refraction and phong shader for the others. Render was done with Mental Ray with GI + FG on softimage. Between the tweaks that I would still do are an adjustment of the aliasing and an increase of the main lights samples, to reduce the noise in the final image. It was hard to do this image because my notebook went crazy for a while until it managed to render it (lol).
Final Image
Wireframe
Light setup
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