DS106 Design Assignment: Minimalist Movie Poster

Posted by on February 7, 2011 * Comments(5)

While I am really enjoying the Daily Shoot (one week in, one week to go), I decided to give one of the Design assignments a try this week as well. I might do more than one as I am very much a frustrated, unskilled and untrained designer that always wishes she was better!

The one that intrigued me at first was the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster. I enjoyed the two that are posted there  over at  Minimalist TV/Movie Poster | Stacy’s Blog and the king’s speech | D’Arcy Norman dot net. I chose a movie I have not yet seen, True Grit. Since there are two versions, I did two versions of the poster to reflect the difference.

I decided to make these in PowerPoint instead of Photoshop because, with the minimalist approach, I didn’t need the power of PS and you really can do quite a bit with PowerPoint drawing tools these days so it just seemed like something to stretch my design work a bit.

I also took the opportunity to install the plugin, Lightbox Plus, on our WordPress installation here on campus.

Here they are:

Minimalist Poster for the Movie True Grit

and

Minimalist Poster for True Grit

I also uploaded them to Flickr and was greatly amused at how they look in the photostream preview:

screenshot of Flickr previews

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5 Comments so far

  1. avatar   Tuvie on February 23rd, 2011

    Wow, well done, did you position the images on purpose? Because it looks great.

    • avatar   Audrey on February 24th, 2011

      I did place them on purpose. I knew that two different movies had Rooster’s patch on different eyes so I chose to reverse the layout on the posters.

  2. avatar   Eric Schmieg on February 7th, 2011

    This is really well done. Extremely creative, and it comes across perfectly.

  3. avatar   Audrey on February 7th, 2011

    Thanks, Tim! When I chose this movie, this element was the first thing I envisioned so I just went with it.

  4. avatar   Tim Owens on February 7th, 2011

    This is extremely well done! A perfect way to boil down an movie’s “essence” to one key theme. You nailed it.