Responding to an Open Call Submission - 06.10.22
For today's lesson and mini-project, we had to come up with a submission for an open call for a graphic design project called Orpieau. The best way to describe this is to think of a poster (which is the size of 175 x 91cm) in which you can put up your own work. This can be a photograph, drawing, or something done in illustrator. But there are some restrictions. They are outlined below;
Specifications for the Poster
Size: 175cm by 91cm
DPI: 200
Colours: Can be colour, but this must be paid for, black and white is preferred, can also be 3D but will cost as well
As you can see, there is no subject with this, which means that anything can be put up on the poster, as long as the subject matter is fine with the company.
Initial Ideas
Seeing that this was quite open to anything, I brainstormed a lot of ideas down. Some of these ideas are really something out there, whilst some of them are generic ones that I thought of on the spot. These ideas are shown below;
For this open call though, I wanted to do something with illustrator as this would give me enough resolution in the final outcome for this poster. Seeing that it was going to be put up in either Canada or France, putting the map onto the poster felt like it was a good idea.
The steps to get the final outcome is shown below. The background was made using a graphics tablet and making sure that it looks like the gradient contours of a map. This was made using the blob brush tool. This would output the shape of the brush instead of a path. The next step was to trace around an image of a map of the country using the paintbrush tool in illustrator. This would output a path so that it could be joined up and then shaped. The triangle shape was made using the basic pen tool and connected together by aligning them.
To essentially invert the colours so that the lines are white and the map is black, I had to overlay them together and use the pathfinder tool. This would make paths for me by combining the overlays and simplifying the paths so that I could choose what shape was which colour and then invert the colours myself.
