Macbeth Opera Posters
CHALLENGE:
For this project we had to design three Macbeth posters for the Canadian Opera Company using Adobe Photoshop skills acquired in class. We incorporated royalty-free stock images to create visually compelling compositions. Through thoughtful layout and typography decisions, we established a cohesive visual language that ties the posters together as a set.
SOLUTION:
I wanted to take scenes from Macbeth to tell a visual story in my designs. The first poster emanates the first scenes where the three witches share their visions with Macbeth about becoming king, with fire behind them giving the prelude to destruction on the pathway and the skull representing death. The fire in the cauldron in front of the three women adds a dramatic flare to their predictions and the skull is also a foreshadow to the future. I used 3 different images to create this composition and blending modes, opacity, and burning and dodging.
For my second poster design, I used four different images; a black, ominous paint pour image, a red blood like paint pour image, a black king chess piece, and an image of a man, with blood dripping down his face to emanate battle, murder, and death. I used blending modes to tie them all together to represent the battles and murder that led to Macbeth becoming king. I wanted to give this poster negative space in the composition so your eyes fall on his eye and the king chess piece in the middle.
For my third poster design, I chose to focus on lady Macbeth holding a golden crown, her eyes closed in remorse, with gold bleeding out of her eyes and dripping down her hands and arms. She appears to be melting into a quagmire of blood. I worked with blending modes here to create this composition, using two different images. This poster represents the downfall of lady Macbeth, consumed by the guilt she felt for what she had Macbeth do in order to achieve their crowns. The gold and blood represents the greed and blood she could not wash off her hands.
For the typography component that ties all the posters together, we had to ensure the dates, the title and the Canadian Opera Company logo was showing, with hierarchy established. I used an elegant, yet masculine sans serif font. I didn't want the typography to take away from the compositions, so kept them all anchored at the bottom in a white box, with only the title, Verdi MACBETH, in white to match the box and ensure visibility within the image. I put all the important information at the bottom in a white box in red to ensure that they were visible and used a serif font for the dates.
For this project we had to design three Macbeth posters for the Canadian Opera Company using Adobe Photoshop skills acquired in class. We incorporated royalty-free stock images to create visually compelling compositions. Through thoughtful layout and typography decisions, we established a cohesive visual language that ties the posters together as a set.
SOLUTION:
I wanted to take scenes from Macbeth to tell a visual story in my designs. The first poster emanates the first scenes where the three witches share their visions with Macbeth about becoming king, with fire behind them giving the prelude to destruction on the pathway and the skull representing death. The fire in the cauldron in front of the three women adds a dramatic flare to their predictions and the skull is also a foreshadow to the future. I used 3 different images to create this composition and blending modes, opacity, and burning and dodging.
For my second poster design, I used four different images; a black, ominous paint pour image, a red blood like paint pour image, a black king chess piece, and an image of a man, with blood dripping down his face to emanate battle, murder, and death. I used blending modes to tie them all together to represent the battles and murder that led to Macbeth becoming king. I wanted to give this poster negative space in the composition so your eyes fall on his eye and the king chess piece in the middle.
For my third poster design, I chose to focus on lady Macbeth holding a golden crown, her eyes closed in remorse, with gold bleeding out of her eyes and dripping down her hands and arms. She appears to be melting into a quagmire of blood. I worked with blending modes here to create this composition, using two different images. This poster represents the downfall of lady Macbeth, consumed by the guilt she felt for what she had Macbeth do in order to achieve their crowns. The gold and blood represents the greed and blood she could not wash off her hands.
For the typography component that ties all the posters together, we had to ensure the dates, the title and the Canadian Opera Company logo was showing, with hierarchy established. I used an elegant, yet masculine sans serif font. I didn't want the typography to take away from the compositions, so kept them all anchored at the bottom in a white box, with only the title, Verdi MACBETH, in white to match the box and ensure visibility within the image. I put all the important information at the bottom in a white box in red to ensure that they were visible and used a serif font for the dates.