I was so excited when I heard about this project. So many famous names come to my head with the word " Jazz" music like Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday or Ella Fitzgerald. I made the decision about " Jazz night poster" as this music takes a place very close to my heart. I grow up listening to this music and I have to say that I am very familiar with polish jazz. This music was very important in my country in late 60 and 70 as it was the music of underground if I may say like that. Young artists could express their political opinion or frustration by playing this music. Obviously I cannot remember anything from that time but this music is still young and fresh in polish jazz clubs.
This poster made by Gunter Kieser is a good example of German Art between 1955-1960. It is very simple in colours, lines and shapes.
Gunter Kieser
" Samba D'Orpheus" by Johanna Kriesel looks like most American jazz posters from middle of the 20th century. The colours are simple, there is a shape of a musician playing on the jazz instrument. I like the dark colours of the background as they give a warm temperature to this poster. The orange round shape reminds me of a Sunset , the time of the day when the jazz is the most popular.
" Samba D'Orpheus" by Johanna Kriesel
I put a poster by Marco Fabiano to give an example of female jazz singer. the colours are calm and sensual however very warm.
Marco Fabiano
Roland Crump " Pete's Poop Deck Jazz Club" 1960
Tomaszewski for Jazz Jamboree 1971
This is my brainstorm and moodboard
My moodboard tells about the atmosphere around that kind of music. There is a bit of quirky smile of L. Armstrong and the sound of his trumpet, there is also a bit of alcohol to give a loose mood in the evening. New York is a capital of jazz music therefore I had to mention that. Leszek Mozdzer is my favourite polish jazz musician of my generation so I knew that his name is going to be as a part of my moodboard.
07.03.2012
My first illustration for this project has been inspired by Leszek Mozdzer music, very young and vibrant. I wanted to combine this colourful music and I gave bit more movement by drawing a shouting person. The lines made with black ink shoves also an expressive nature of jazz.
I changed my illustration just a little bit by using blue colours to express an evening nature of this event. I have also changed my colourful headdress into a piano keyboard .
I added some music notes to complement the background and I have also put the jazz trumpet in the left bottom corner . I thought that the perfect place to put the information about this event was the top right part of the paper. The pink colour is so visible to the eye but not too shouting.
I think that the part where the pencil is still visible makes this poster still fresh and vibrant.
I think that the part where the pencil is still visible makes this poster still fresh and vibrant.
originally that was a photo which I took one day in London. I saw one man playing on the piano in the middle of the street .
I put this photo in to the computer program and worked a while to the vibrant colours. I added the trumpet to make this poster in a jazz style.
This is more like the poster above made by a professional illustrator. I thought that I could make my poster simpler so I cut everything around the musician. I used a scanned brown paper for the background and deliberately I kept only warm colours just like on the poster above. But there was something that I did not like overall. I decided to keep working on this project......
I kept working......
This is nearly my completed poster . I like it overall but there is something which makes me think that this is not a fully my art work. Just the fact that I used a photo from my personal album left me in this mood like I was partly cheating.
01.04.2012
I was about to send my assignment to my tutor this morning, however it did not happen as I got my another idea from a poster while I was looking at the beginning of my blog. My attention was caught by the poster made by Gunter Kieser
I took a small blank card and draw a quick sketch with a black pen.
After a few hours working in Photoshop to make this sketch to look like a poster I came to this finished illustration.
I know that this is my final work from which I am content and glad. It has got everything that I was looking for previously in my projects. It has got a simple lines that make an interesting shapes. This poster has bold colours but they catch the eye and attention. I am very pleased with the composition as it is not steady and calm, this composition moves like jazz music.
