Arc and Angle To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge. – Grace Hopper

Chicago Olympic 2016 poster

This is the poster that I chose to base my event poster off of:

Original World's Fair Chicago Poster (1933)

I love the colors, the type, and the general sense of organized chaos. Here is the event poster I created for class:

Chicago Olympics 2016 poster

Certainly there are things I want to change and work on, but I'm very happy with it overall given the amount of time I had to work on it. I'm proud of myself for trying some techniques that I'm new to and learned some new things along the way. I deem this a success.

The main pieces I want to work on are all of the pieces of text. The tracking and spacing of the paragraphs at the bottom are truly awful, but I just didn't have enough time to fix that. I also need to get rid of that dead space above the Olympic logo. The list of venues on the right isn't tight and seems to draw too much focus to itself, so I'd work on that as well.

I like the buildings and the colors used on them. I like the backgrounds of the left and right columns. I kept on creating a pattern swatch using the splatter brush, but it kept looking terrible when I applied the pattern to the background. Finally, I just used the symbol sprayer and it created the random look I was aiming for. I like that the background looks like stars and that it contains faint hints of the building color scheme.

I struggled with Live Paint on some spots, but managed to work around those problems well enough.

Now let's hope Chicago can add another star to the Chicago flag in 2016.