Poster for MICA’s Screening of Objectified (in progress)
I am creating a poster for MICA‘s screening of Gary Hustwit’s latest documentary, Objectified. In order to do this, I tracked pretty much every object I touched throughout the course of a day and then proceeded to illustrate each one. I wanted to allude to Build‘s poster for the film, but take the basic idea a bit further and put a concept behind it. I will post the final and printed version in my portfolio.
P.S. That image above is massive, just re-sized on this page. Download it or view it in it’s own window to see some more detail.
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
7 Comments
First of all; looking good. I saw you working on this in class… I like the sinks!
Second, hang that punctuation in that body copy.
Third, not feeling the Akzidenz. Normally I’m a huge fan, especially in bold, but in this case I would say go Helvetica or go totally-not-Helvetica. Since Hustwit is so related to Helvetica, I think it would be excused in this case.
Sorry for almost hitting you on your bike today.
Thank you for taking the time to comment, Colin. Word to hanging the punctuation. I went with Akzidenz to echo the type choices that Build made on the DVD, packaging, and official poster. It is not usually my favorite, but I think it is working here.
You didn’t almost hit me, I thought we were racing!
Hello–
Nice poster. Just a note though on the ‘…and put a concept behind it’ part. On our design the objects are arranged (in most instances) in order of a person day from getting up (alarm clock, toothbrush) – Work (car, notebook) to lunch (bottles, ketchup) – Afternoon (work: calculator / play: camera) – Home (car) – Relax (softer furniture) – Exercise (bike) – Relax (TV remote, Lounge chair) – Dinner (cutlery) – Bed (lights out)…then for the jetsetter (the plane). We also wanted to have at least one object from each designer featured in the film, all in all a lot of objects. We just felt it didn’t need to have the times of day (clutter).
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Best,
M
@Michael – Thanks for taking the time to comment. I did not mean to imply your poster did not have a concept behind it, but I must confess I did not recognize the chronological nature of objects in your poster. (Feeling more-or-less unoriginal right about now) Your piece has the added depth of including the objects actually featured in the film, something I obviously did not have access to, though I suppose that is probably for the best because if I did have that information I most likely would have made pretty much the same poster you guys already had.
Thanks again for the comment; you guys did a beautiful job with all of the Objectified packaging/posters/etc. I cannot wait to see the film!
Andy – No worries. I like the personal nature/journey/documentation of your poster. It would be interesting to see a few other peoples documentation of their day depicted in this nature.
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Best,
M
I appreciate your honesty in depicting every item you touched throughout the day. thanks.
@Christina – Thanks for taking the time to look at it!