2009.12.7 - final competition project: modern propaganda poster
so this project is pretty much straight-forward. we choose a propaganda subject from the 1900-1950s and recreate a modern like poster about it. the hardest thing about this project was choosing the subject since different issues happened during WWII. I had no idea what my subject was going to be until the very last minute. I chose the atomic bombings in Japan (Nagasaki and Hiroshima). I looked up poster examples online but were only able to find posters of the map of Japan and two "x" marks on Nagasaki and Hiroshima. I took that exact idea and decided to add the United States above it and had the atomic bombs kind of "shoot" down on Japan. I'm satisfied with the end result, although the background on the poster I printed out yesterday night turned into a "mauve" color (supposed to be dark grey).
some of the problems that happened during the process of designing/printing:
* i designed the poster on illustrator but i wasn't able to export it into a jpeg because of an error (out of range?)
* once i hit that problem, i figured i'd transfer what i had on illustrator to photoshop so i could export it into a jpeg/pdf. because this poster is large format, the layers i were trying to transfer to photoshop took a long time and ended up freezing my laptop.
but the good thing was..
* i was lucky enough to get that problem fixed and went to millrace lab to use their computers and got the AI file on to PSD and exported that into a pdf.
