Time to redecorate?

I want you!

30 Jul 2010

This poster is the result of my work for the final assignment in the first year graphic design class. The project consisted of developing and creating an advertising poster for myself, interrelating visual elements and text, which would represent me in terms of overall visual style and message. The choice of visual materials was completely free and left up to the students.
To do this I decided to go with the style of the classic propaganda poster. Having been born in the USSR, it was well suited to represent my background, while at the same time well integrating the message I wanted to convey. The imagery was created by applying a number of Photoshop filters to a real photograph of me in a tuxedo, inspired by a Bond’esque theme with a visual comic book feel to it. After that, the choice of fonts and background was obvious, producing a melange of Japanese wartime brochures, communist propaganda and the Barack Obama “Hope” poster by Shepard Fairey – also inspired by the classic “Uncle Sam wants you” series. Fairey’s example shows us just how much well designed graphic material can do to support a political of a commercial campaign.