Illustration and Banner Animation
If you’ve read my two previous posts you may get the feeling I’m liking illustration of late.
I often go through design phases which to some extent I don’t like as I believe I shouldn’t be constrained to a certain style but at the same time I think it’s unavoidable for any designer.
As well as experiment I’ve also been looking at sites such as grainedit that has awesome daily posts on vintage illustration and design. I’ve always been interested in vintage design which you may be able to see in these: halloween, summer sale, kitchen and jack la lanne. But illustration is another step forward.
I recently had a nice subject matter of a rail offer and I found myself using flat shapes and along with my love for giving texture to designs, it seemed a great combo.
If you can’t see a train running along with smoke coming out, you probably haven’t got flash player installed! Either that or banners aren’t as good as I thought they were!
The banners provided an extra challenge of having a side and front on view. I gave texture by creating a transparent png in Photoshop and placing it on the top layer in the flash movie.
It’s hard to measure the impact of interesting or good design opposed to an in your face super mega tack approach but I would like to think the originality of the banners would attract people to possibly read them or give them a click.
[sorry for this horrendously large white space, but the banner is so high, i’m sorry!]
