It's Showtime!

Hi,
I got back from Dominican Republic last Monday after spending two amazing and insightful weeks there with my family to finish this poster commissioned by employees of Iceland, Penzance. The charity event is in aid of Alzheimers Research UK.
At the event, there will be karaoke, a buffet and a charity auction. Pete Caradine will be performing a tribute to Neil Diamond as well as music from the 60s and 90s. As you can tell, it's a pretty eclectic event so I had to be careful to avoid those generic musical cliches such as microphones, stars, musical notes etc...

My idea was to create a poster made up of different typography. I had some lovely brown paper and used this as a background on which to paint on. I had to include a photo of Pete Caradine from a promo that was sent to me. The photo was amateur and therefore not the best quality. It was very dark so I changed the brightness/contrast and hue/saturation until it was clearer and fitted into the poster's asethetic better. I cut around it roughly in photoshop and pasted it on digitally. This added a scrap-book quality to the image and luckily the standard of the photograph has accentuated this.

I had a go at hand-rendering all of the logistical info by hand but wasn't happy with this and decided to use a digital font for this aspect of the poster. I don't think it has detracted from the poster's overall aesthetic.

Initially I was informed the entertainer was called Paul, instead of real name, Pete. This resulting in me having to paint "ete" of Pete and layer it over the "aul" in Photoshop, adjusting it's size and hue/saturation until it blended seamlessly. This of course was not a great problem because Photoshop is fantastic. But it gave me an appreciation of illustrators 30 years ago who no doubt would have had to repaint a section of the poster and neatly collage over it as best as they could. I am thankful I was born now and not then!

So what do I think of it overall?

It is eye-catching which is important. I like some panels better than others. The "Buffet" panel is stylish and striking. I am not so keen on the type I rendered for "All proceeds go to: Alzheimers Research UK" but the main thing is all aspects of the poster are legible and the good bits balance out the mediocre bits to result in an image that I am pretty pleased with. I also designed some admission tickets and another simple poster all of which the client was very pleased with- phew!

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As always, thanks for reading and check in soon.

Alison.