Workshop: Vector Critique #28
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Workshop: Vector Critique #28

on Jan 25th 2013 with 10 comments

Vectortuts+ is all about helping people turbo charge their skills, and today we have another special community post that will help our readers take their images to the next level. The best thing is, you can be part of it too! Find out more at the jump.

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  • This workshop contributor has offered a piece of work that they would like help with, please keep this in mind when you share your thoughts. The images are not perfect, but they can be with the right advice and some friendly encouragement. (Vectortuts+ reserves the right to delete any rude comments)
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Designer: Matt Lamont

Details:

" International Film Festival "

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What are your thoughts on the work above? Critiquing work helps the artist see new possibilities, and it also helps you learn to evaluate art, which will help you take that same analysis and apply it to your own work. Participate in the comments below with your opinions on how to improve the work above.

 
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Sharon Milne aka ChewedKandi is an Illustrator and Writer specialising in vector art. She's from the North East of England. She's also our Editor on Vectortuts+. You can check out her website portfolio by going to ChewedKandi.net and keep up to date via her Facebook page.  

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  • torrance scott

    Looks nice, the thumbnail is too small to get any look at the details though, is there a higher quality version somewhere? From what I can see, the only thing I don’t like is the National Media Museum font, the serifs look heavy and rounded, but that may just be the picture quality. Colors are really nice. Have you looked at them in grayscale or thought about colorblindness? Something makes me worry that the image may not work well for accessibility. Good work, I’m jealous of it!

    • http://twitter.com/functionalfox The Functional Fox

      Many thanks for the advise, I never thought about colour blindness and this is defiantly an issue I will be looking into for future work. I have attached some alternation colours which I think some of them work better than this one.

      • http://twitter.com/functionalfox The Functional Fox

        Alternative Colours

  • akomei

    Would love to see a higher-res image, because I’m not seeing an over-arching theme here.

    It’s a Film Festival yet I don’t have any inkling (from the thumbnail and lo-res image, at least) of what the design might entail film works or representations of it. Those might be in the little details to notice.

    I love the strong silhouette value and shape value. The color surrounding the overall design looks okay, but doesn’t lead your eye around. The concept using multi-Venn Diagram types of design looks interesting, but nothing yet that seriously leads the eye. Again, might be the low resolution.

    • TheFunctionalFox

      In the brief we were not allowed to use any elements related to film :( My Idea is based around film itself been an International Language and the fact that any location can be a movie set, I have included different scenes in the design itself that could easily be animated. I think if would have been alot better if I would have used a variety of colours and I agree totally with the eye not been lead around. Many thanks for the advice, much appreciated

      • akomei

        Ah I see! That is a difficult brief and a little strange considering it is a film festival, but I can totally relate to the most outlandish of client requests! Maybe mention the brief in the “description” section so we know, I noticed a lot of others made this similar comment as well.

  • Gary Harding

    I think it’s beautiful, however, I agree that I don’t see the relationship to film, and I’m a big film viewer and lover. If you meant to make the four circles film cans, it’s not obvious to me. I think if you did exactly what you’ve done, but make them four (or three?) film cans and perhaps have a film spool unrolling with a continuation of that image, it might work better. My eyes get stuck in the joining of the three powder blue circles right now. I don’t understand the connection to media; what’s happening in the circle reads more to be as being about landscape and some places I can’t figure out where, than about media, per se. Is this a take on Infographics maybe? Perhaps if there was something fun in the negative space that would be interesting, too. Bravo for taking your design to the streets (of the information highway) and being open to input.

    • http://twitter.com/functionalfox The Functional Fox

      I wish I could have incorporated film elements, but the brief stated not to. Although i may have gotten away with some elements. The film cans would have been awesome and I defiantly think something in the negative space would have been cool, maybe some sort of character or mascot. I have attached an alternative design i had in mind if I could have used cameras, Many thanks

  • Sean

    The colors are not easy to see, they need more contrast.

  • http://twitter.com/bealuscious Bea Rico

    I suggest to make the film cans more explicit. Make an outline for the film cans or add a film can-shaped frame.

    I recommend to change the color palette to:
    #E4E5E4, #E2C9AC, #D6422C, #6F232A, #161A20 for a professional-looking film festival

    or

    #3CB5B5, #FCD920, #E53B51, #FFFEFF, #EC6C20 for film festival with a variety of film genre

    or

    #55C3DC, #8C6429, #E7F3EF, #73726D, #E24B2C for a safe pick