This is the banner I made. Check it and tell me what you think. Of course this is the last minute banner that i mocked up so be harsh please. I wanna know if it sucks!
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I don’t see a relationship (whether visual or conceptual) between the image in the background and the words in the foreground. I also don’t see how the image and typography have anything to do with the content of the words (ie, with what the words are saying). It seems like you’re getting a lot of mileage out of the confrontational tone, which is always fun, but there’s not much there to back it up.
I understand it. To the old me, the painter, artist/purist, it says to Design as a noun an entinty…”pack up and get out of here, you don’t know a thing about being an artist and creator.”
Natuarally as a Designer now I see things differently. But there are still many examples of people and design work out there that has no art no purpose and no princples to it. Not even to mock or critic itself as Julie is always talking about. Commentary. Story. Feeling. Expression. That is Art and that is what leads to good design. Purpose and funtion are key not just the excuse of “Because it looks nice to me.”
Ok it seems like a stretch but my underwear is around my ankles and it looks like i’m sitting down. There are also pipes in that background and if you think about it a little it’s a bathroom. Therefore that’s where the sh*t comes in!
Michael, I did not see that it was underwear around ankles & etc. In looking at it after you point it out, I can see it. But, in looking at it without any previous knowledge, I could not tell. I believe this is because the type and the little flourishes cover aspects that would be telling – for instance, your feet are covered by the type, and the design flourishes (stars and swooshes) cover the toilet. Also, my eye goes immediately to the word ‘design’, first because it is red, and big, and because it is on the left of the image, and I read left to right. So, my eye goes first to the word ‘design’, and from there I continue reading the text on the bottom, because I started the image with reading, and my eye just continues left to right. When I look at the picture, it is hard for me to tell what’s going on because a lot of it is covered, and because the space is hard to read. I’m not sure what’s positive and what’s negative space. So overall it is hard to make out.
I have the feeling that while you’re using the image of you on the toilet, you’re a little uncomfortable with having that image be very prominent, so you’re covering it up. Or, you think that the words have to be big for us to read them, but once you make them big, then you’ve used up the available space of the picture. The text is dominating the picture, it ‘weighs’ a lot and the picture weighs almost nothing by comparison.
I suggest re-organizing the image to strengthen the background picture rather than to cover it. Scale you type down and place it strategically in the image, perhaps over to the right where there is a blank space that’s looking like a promising place to put some type. This will hopefully enhance the space in the picture and create a balance that favors the image more than the type, or at least favors them both equally. It will also move the text to the right so that when the viewer sees the picture s/he will confront the image first (if ‘reading’ left to right) before encountering the text.
Hope that helps at least a bit.