Design Assignment: Minimlist Travel Poster

Posted by Chelsea Mageland

| February 19, 2012

The assignment was to “create a minimalistic travel poster for a location in film, TV series, etc. Look at these awesome examples using the various locations in the original Star Wars trilogy: http://screenrant.com/sr-pick-minimalist-star-wars-travel-posters-robf-44551/”

I (am embarrassed to say this, but) made a few versions this bost (6 variations…) a poster for Narnia. I used photoshop, of course, and used the Cutout effect quite a bit. My biggest trouble was dealing with the words. I found a website that allowed me to use the font, but I had to screen shot what I typed (“Visit Narnia”) to put it onto photoshop. I did find a cool font, but when I download it, photoshop wouldn’t read it for some reason

I think this is my favorite one, as far as being the most minimalistic. I found an image of the wardrobe from The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe, and I put it into photoshop, quick mask moded it and put it onto a new canvas. I used the Cutout tool to get the visual effect. But then I decided that I wanted to try something different…

So I created this one. I found a picture of Narnia and I cropped out a part of it and put it inside of the wardrobe, and used the Cutout tool again. Next I found pictures of trees covered in snow, applied the Cutout effect, and placed it in the background. I wasn’t sure what to do about the wording, as it seemed awkward visually (see photos of trials below).

And these are a bunch of trials that came before the previous ones. Visually, I think I would prefer no words. But for the assignment, I thought that might be too ambiguous.