Monday, February 28, 2011

Norwegian Wood Poster Competition

Dedicating pretty much entire week developing design for iPad application, this weekend I manage to go back to 'After Lethaby' brief (investigating the building of our school) and also I entered Norwegian Wood poster competition.
You can vote here (voting finishes on 28th...which is today...): Don't Panic Norwegian Wood Poster Competition

My final art work looks like this:Closer it looks like this:
The yellow type reminds me of 'Somewhere' and I tried to avoid yellow as much as possible since I'm not even a big fun of that poster but yellow here worked so well I just had to pick this. I hope you feel the same too.

'Norwegian Wood' is my favorite novel and I have been well jealous of fellow Japanese friends who've seen it. The judging pannel for this competition includes the director and it's quite exciting thinking that he will see my work.

Here is the process with some drafts, in the order of initial to newer (I do go back and forth quite a lot):