Collaborate project - Initial ideas and development: Concert Poster

Initial Ideas

In this post I am going to present a new project that I had to do with one of my class mates, Salvador. 

The aim of this project is to explore other subject areas and get out of our comfort zones. Also, this is a test for us to see how well can we work with each other because in our professional lives, we will be required to work with other people. Our subject areas are related to fashion so we took the opportunity to explore another subject area mainly graphic design. 

Our initial idea was to produce an art piece exploring two different sensations, tact and audition. In order to do it, our idea was to produce a video where one of us would painting the partner's back while listening to a music. The outcome of the paint would be something abstract once it would only represent the rhythm of the music and with that, we would be exploring the audition sensation.

The person that is being painted and is not listening to the music, would produce another paint based on the feeling of the brush in the back and try to represent the same as the original draw. 

In order to understand the final result, we have made several tests such as the music choice and the way we would represent a music into a drawing and that was the most challenge in this whole project.

Development

We end up doing this collaborate project related to graphic design and we find interesting to produce a concert poster. For this project, we were inspired by a photo by an editorial from Lacoste promoting a bucket hat. So we started to take some photos and below are a few of them: 

Then, we have chose the two best photos and trasfer them to photoshop and start editing it because the initial idea was to work with two images and overlap them. First, we used the lasso tool to contour the figures and remove the background. 

Then, we decided that chosing only one photo would be more appealing, direct and clean. Also, we have add some effects in colours.

We decided to change the colours and contrast of the photo, the colours are around blues and red. In order to do it, we used the image tool, adjustments and curves. 

We wanted to add a title for the tour and we wanted something inspiring. For that, we have used the text tool and chose the lettring that we find more interesting for the layout.

Finally, like all the concert posters, we have added the dates and cities of the concerts and also the name of the artist.