This poster for Green Day's album, American Idiot is an example of how simplicity can provide a very powerful message. The poster used only three colors, but by choosing black, white, and red, the poster immediately has a dark feel. You can tell that the album is not going to be about someone picking flowers out in a field or something like that. The white hand is holding a heart shaped grenade. By keeping the hand white, your eye is immediately brought to the grenade. The grenade is also angled towards the text which leads the reader's eye to the text. I really like this poster for this product and think that it works very well.
Fran,
ReplyDeleteGood example and analysis. You could also say that continuation is at work for the movement visuals create leading to the words.
Cheers,
paul