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Tahiti
For a French project, my country is Tahiti.
I have to make a poster board of it and write facts about it and stuff. I really would like one the MOST creative. I'm thinking like making the posterboard a shape of something.. what else could I shape the posterboard as besides a flower that would go with Tahiti?
Also, how should I do the lettering and decorate it? What kind of flowers should I use and any glitter or beads? I just need CREATIVE ideas. I`m basically doing the scene of a beach or someplace tropical. And it must go with Tahiti.
Any ideas on how I could decorate this poster please help! I will NOT copy you, I will be very original about it because I already have some ideas in mind as well.
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Well, since I went through projects such as this one in ghischool and now that I've studied everything about art and now design, I'll tell you this: keep it simple. I regret making every piece of 'creative' creation I ever made in highschool.
Glitter is just...wrong when it comes to presenting something. Think of your project as a poster: you want it to attract attention and be pleasing to the eye when read up close. Having all those glitters and all will just confuse the viewer. Also think of composition: how you will place your images, text, etc. Think of a way to combine text with image.
Make sure your thing looks unified. Keep your media limited (like if you use color pencil ... stick to that. Don't play around with papier mache all over it and add 3D stuff...it'll be too much). The collage is a good idea, as well as a mixed media one where you use different ways of painting, drawing, etc. (the papier mache example) but you don't overdo it.
For the lettering, if you're gonna handwrite it, go ahead! Personal is good. But if you're going to have cutout parts of text from the internet along with your writing...then yuck. Pick one: handwriting or typed text. For fonts, I recommend Helvetica. Times New Roman is just disgusting so are Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, Courier New and Comic Sans...If you've the font called Futura or Univers, use one of those.
For lettering color, stick to black or white, the simplest ones. Depending on the overall tone of your creation, of course. If it's dark, use white. Too light, use black. Simple.
Personally, I can visualize something abstract. You can try this (very easy): look at photos about Tahiti. Make a list of the colors that you see. Then, mix those colors. For this, just use yellow, blue and red poster paint. From these three colors, you can get anything (send me a message to my inbox about color mixing - i know it all!). When you've mixed it, make sure it's not thick but very opaque. Use your brush to drop heavy paint drops on the board. Take your straw (quickly) and blow onto the wet paint drop. Make sure you 'drive' the paint into different directions. You'll get the sense of flower from that. I'm sure this is familiar to you.
I can go on forever about this...but don't overdo it. Find good quality images (www.deviantart.com - MY FAVE!) and use those. Take your time to work on your craftsmanship.
When you're done with it, stand back and look at it. Can you point out an 'odd one out'? If no, then you're good to go. =). Then place it upside down, at an angle, whatever and ask yourself the same question.
This is really important stuff that designers have to go through every second. I'd love to sit here and talk about more things for hours but I don't want to confuse you...
Good luck with the project and hope I helped even just for the teeniest bit.
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Kay.
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