Vintage Travel Poster - Redesign

Using only Illustrator make an 11x17 vintage travel poster inspired by an original poster.  

Find an authentic vintage travel poster (or posters) online to use as a launching off point for your new design.  Post the poster(s) you find to your blog.  Here is a link to a gallery which specializes in early travel/destination posters. I have provided this link because if you do a Google image search for "Vintage Travel Poster" the majority of your results will be contemporary (new) designs. It is important to me that you find an authentic antique travel poster to pull inspiration from.

http://www.charlesmichaelgallery.com/product-category/travel-and-transportation/   

Analyze the original poster's design characteristics and consider how you will REINTERPRET them into the redesign of your poster.  You should also think about what qualities of the design make it look vintage and incorporate those stylistic qualities in your redesign as well.

Additionally, I want you to find another photo (DO NOT USE AN EXISTING ILLUSTRATION, DRAWING, OR CARTOON! USE ONLY PHOTOS) that you will use as the basis for an illustration to incorporate into your travel poster.  Just as in other projects where we have translated photos into illustrations you should find a way to make it your own.  You do not need to follow the photo exactly.  You can exaggerate or simplify aspects of the photo to give your illustration unique characteristics.  It is also important that it has the same "vintage" quality as the rest of your poster.  If you would like to "freehand" an ORIGINAL illustration from your own imagination without using a photograph that is even better.

Think about the typeface you will use, the placement of the title and how the overall composition will be laid out. YOUR TEXT CAN NOT HAVE A STROKE ON IT! 

It is not necessary that you keep the original travel destination of your found travel poster.  If your poster was originally Italy you could change it to Kentucky or even a fictional location.

You should start experimenting with these tools:

-pen (with all tools found underneath the pen tool as well)
-direct select
-pencil
-paintbrush (with brush library)
-pathfinder
-blob brush
-gradient
-live paint bucket
-clipping mask 

THE ONLY TOOLS YOU CAN NOT USE ARE IMAGE TRACE, AND THE SYMBOL LIBRARY

YOU HAVE 2 CLASS PERIODS TO WORK ON THIS POSTER. THE POSTER SHOULD BE POSTED TO YOUR BLOG IN .PNG FORMAT BY THE BEGINNING OF CLASS TUES. April 2nd.  

EXAMPLES:

ORIGINAL             REDESIGN

   

SOURCE IMAGE

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ORIGINAL              REDESIGN

ORIGINAL              REDESIGN

SHAPE, PATTERN AND COLOR HARMONIES

Create 3 different patterns each 10" x 10" made up of REPEATING compound shapes that each employ the use of a different color harmony.  Here is a link to an Illustrator file that shows you different color harmonies:  Color Harmony Illustrator File  You can use the eyedropper tool to sample the colors to insert into your patterns.  Think about where your patterns begin and end within your art board.   You may want to use the PATHFINDER and ALIGN tools to assist you when creating your patterns.   

Attendance will not be required on Thursday March 7th. You will have access to the computer lab during our regularly scheduled class time. You will have 2 in-class periods to work on this assignment. Name each of your documents by what color harmony you are using.

Make sure and post the .png version of your projects to your blog by the beginning class on Tuesday March 19th.

ANALAGOUS

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