Studio Practice: Traditional print experiments and feedback

Gradient experiments inspired by Caribbean sunny skies and the season the carnival is in, the bright colours brought to Leeds with the amazing costumes, in the form of a gradient. For many of these experiments the top half of the print worked brilliantly with a contrasting stripe but many mixed together on the bottom half making more of a muddy colour. Type will hide this, and need to try the first type style I made on the best outcomes.

This type style was inspired by one of the posters from the moodboard making the visitors really look to read it, with 'yea' underlying the spirit and good feeling of the festival. Using this design as it isn't as busy as my second meaning these mix of colours won't make it too hard to read and look at.

These were the most popular to submit favoured for their suited Caribbean colour contrast, energetic typography (a huge association to the carnival with dancing and live music) sharing a positive experience of the carnival through the piece to the viewer. A collective celebration of the carnival in honour of it's 50 years bringing the carnival and design typography together with a hand drawn element to celebrate the humble community sense to the piece with a dash of glitter, as if the piece had been in the carnival itself full of lavish sparkling outfits dancing and music.

The language used is to express the carnival's popular points and show it's energy and happiness intertwined with the composition of the lettering, the variety to showcase the mix of communities and all positive outcomes of the carnival on Leeds.

Feedback

preferred mixed typography expressive
-exciting, more subtle due to type flow
-has a n energetic rythmn to it

-shouldn't add as it already has colour and glitter with a variety of energetic text

I had considered adding more flicks of colour to represent the feathers of the outfits but within feedback I was assured this was enough and if I added it would lower the impact and look too much (which the carnival is, but for exhibition purpose I will not add more)