Design Competition: Final

So, my final composition ended up being completely different than my preliminary ideas. My project is for the Conqueror Typographic Games 2012, the website can be seen here. I took Heather's advice from my preliminary round two design and tried out a duotone on my background image. I tested a bunch of different colors and finally decided that the picture looked best using black and green. For most of the text, I just used Times New Roman and I used two other decorative fonts for 'what' and 'conquer' because I wanted those words to stand out more. I also created an outer glow for both words. My design is still very simple, but I think the duotone background with just black and white text looks much better.

Design Competition: Preliminary Round Two

To start, I duplicated the background layer and changed the layer mode to overlay at 85%. I used the Brightness/Contrast to make the picture a bit darker. Next I added text in two portions, and used a gradient overlay to make the Olympics colors. The text needs something extra to make it really unique, but it is still a work in progress.

I also had an idea to make a gradient overlay just on my friend, and keeping the text all one color. But this is also needs to be more thought out if I decide to go this route.

Design Competition: Preliminary

It was really hard to pick a competition to create a design for. There were so many to chose from and so many of them seemed like they would be really interesting. I ended up choosing the Conqueror Typographic Games 2012. I have always been intrigued by typography and this competition seemed like it would be the most fun for me.

The goal of this competition is to "Create a typographical poster about sports, using the phrase, "It's not what you win, but how you conquer it." The Conqueror Typograpica Games website can be seen here. The winner of the contest gets two tickets to the 2012 Olympic Games in London (I'm not sure if the winning poster will be used in any way for the games though).

I am going to use a picture of a friend during one of her marathons (she is a runner). I'm sure if I want to leave the background the way it is or create something else.

So far, I have made the picture black and white and edited the Brightness/Contrast.

Other pictures I am using for inspiration only (found on Google Images):