Self Publishing - The Poster

Using the resources available we were asked to create posters, with simplicity in mind. Designers such as Anthony Burrill, Experimental Jetset and Hort create striking posters with the use of typography and simple colours. We where tasked to create posters from fortune cookies. A fortune cookie is a small biscuit containing a slip of piece of paper, or a "fortune", on which is an aphorism, or a vague prophecy. I opened my to read 'Find the silly in the serious' After lesson I decided to play around with the piece on Indesign and Illustration to see what else I could do with it.

We were then asked to create a poster using lyrics from 'This must be the place' given to us in groups:

Home is where I want to be Pick me up and turn me round I feel numb - born with a weak heart I guess I must be having fun The less we say about it the better Make it up as we go along Feet on the ground Head in the sky

When I got home I used an online fortune cookie and got a cheesy line which read 'once a gentlemen, and always a gentleman' and led on to tell me the right guy for me was just around the corner. The quote itself is from Charles Dickens so I decided to play around with it on illustrator.

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