I guess you can say that I’ve fallen in love with making minimalist posters this week since this is my third one. I have been enjoying the challenge of making them this week and learning how to use GIMP in the process. My best friend got me hooked on Bravo’s Watch What Happens: Live with Andy Cohen, the only talk show on late night tv to feature an open bar. I wanted to emphasize two key elements of the show, the talk and the alcohol through the symbols I used for my take on the Minimalist TV/Movie Poster assignment.

I cropped down this image of a martini glass and cocktail shaker and recolored it with a gray and a grayish pink and changed it’s background to a medium gray. I added this speech bubble to the image, resized it, recolored it from black to a darker gray and rotated it so that it looked like the martini glass was talking and added the text using Raleway, a minimalist font I discovered this week in a slightly paler gray than the speech bubble. I prefer to use shades of gray, even subtly over the standard black and white, which I have heard people find too harsh.

This was the hardest assignment for me this week and honestly, I’m not totally happy with how it turned out. I love the design and layout of it but not the edges of the martini glass, which I could not figure out how to make sharp while removing the darker pixels around the edge of the glass.