Creating Minimalist Posters with Illustrator

When told to create a movie poster, the amount of different ideas I had were overwhelming. I wasn’t sure which movies to pick or which program to use. After researching different minimalist movie posters online, it was easy to grasp the concept and I couldn’t wait to get started. The program I decided to use was Illustrator because I thought the pen tool would be the easiest way to create simple yet accurate shapes. I did the poster for Moulin Rouge first. I saved the image from Google and brought it into illustrator. From there, I traced over desired sections with the pen tool and chose solid colors to keep the minimalist feel. This was the best way to keep the realistic outlines of the character’s hair and clothing. After rearranging the shapes, playing with different colors and positioning type, I was happy with the outcome. I then moved onto the Austin Powers movie poster and followed the same process. My results were two minimalistic movie posters that captured the theme of the movies.

Minimalist Movie Posters

Coding/SneakerShack html

This is another piece of the promotional ads for the March Madness sale for Sneaker Shack. This design is the layout for what will be a working webpage. Like the yoga newsletter, coding will be added to this using Dreamweaver and it will function properly.

This piece follows the same color scheme as previous ads. It was created in photoshop and is promoting the “25% off” sale for Sneakershack.

Coding is an intimidating and overwhelming process but is relieving when you finally get the results you are looking for. It is definitely necessary in becoming a designer and will come in handy when I am fully able to utilize it.

March Madness Sneaker Ads (second set)

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More about David Mack

David Mack is a talented artist who creates pieces of work through different painting techniques. His artwork is beautiful and can range from cartoons to sophisticated artwork. He designs book covers and comics. He is also a talented writer and has worked on many impressive pieces.