WEEK 14

This poster is from the Family Dog Studios from back in the 50's and 60's. I've always had this passion for psychedelic art and I would really like to make some of my own in the future. This poster has a melting quality that I really like. The words blend together as if they are all melting down the page. The colors fade from red, to blue, to green from bottom to top creating a nice flow of color. The contrast of light to dark creates its own feeling/mood of the overall picture. 

Here again is another poster back from the 60's when psychedelic posters were much more popular. Again we can see how all the words melt together and flow in form sort of creating an overall picture with the words them self. Most of the time these were used for music festivals or concerts, which is really want I would love to do. I love music and attending music festivals so it would be my dream job to be able to create poster and flyers such as these for big music festivals all over the world.  

CONTRAST

I found this picture on the internet to be very well designed and shows a great example of positive and negative contrast. There are 4 nice squares, all the same size right by each other, showing a nice, level, contrast to each other. The black and white of each picture really brings out the contrast affect. Each square has its own pattern and either a black or white background. I thought it was very interesting and a nice play on contrast. There is no confusion here for the viewer, everything is nice and symmetric. 

I found this picture to me a lot more confusing and a failed example of contrast. As beautiful as it is, there are a lot of colors and direction, no set patterns, more ambiguous. I fail to see where the contrast comes into play here. With so many colors and no pattern, I can't see it. In the first picture, we have a nice light to dark contrats, here there are a lot of colors, a lot of dark and a lot of light all mixed together.