Thursday, December 13, 2012

Contrast


                                           http://www.listal.com/viewimage/2437271hc


Designers of this poster play with contrast very nicely.  Smurfs pop out perfectly on less saturated background, so contrast in color makes characters more appealing and interesting. The big stone is serving as a good background for the   title of the move and as a podium to display Smurfs.

Another contrasting element is scale characters are quite big compare to buildings and that also let viewer focus on them rather than on background.

Next contrast based on opposition of amount of details. Although it is natural that objects that appear farther have lesser details, in this posters most of the buildings look quite similar in color and in term of details which makes them monotone compare to Smurfs. Smurfs have 3D look and have some distinguish belongings like; glasses, pencil, Scottish outfit and book which makes them stand out and give some idea about their personalities.


                                http://www.allposters.com/-sp/Don-t-Move-Posters_i6861367_.htm



This is the poster for Don’t Move movie. No worries there is other posters out there that make a better justice to this move, but this one not the best of them, in my opinion  First of all image neither faded or stands out enough  to get the all spot light ,but there is something wrong with the hierarchy in this poster anyway, because image and title of the move  are fighting for attention. Poor contrast in size and color cause some problems.
Contrast in color.  Yellow is contrasting with the red background very badly and make text less legible. White color is doing better job in term of contrast but use of size gets in a way in order to design to be successful.
Contrast in size.   Names of the featured stars that are written in white are smaller than quotes are written in yellow for some reason. Title looks like somebody was typing the first half of the poster and then change a letters to the bigger size by mistake, because title  doesn't stand alone.  I don’t understand why designer bothered to make such a contrast in size, because despite the change in size and effort of designer to embrace some idea he/she had in mind by not capitalizing the title and  not placing it farther from the rest of the text it didn't work. Text is all over the place name of the stars typed in a stairs. Words “don’t move” in the title of the move are not aligned and under word “don’t” we see text in black. We see contrast on that poster but it doesn't make poster nether legible nor pleasant to look at unlike the one below.




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