Allister Ferguson

We had to design a number of posters using words and images based on Barbara Kruger’s style of work for photography, the theme I used for this poster was depression. The photograph itself is of a stranger “who I very nicely pulled to the side” and asked him to pretend to hold up a make-believe sign then afterwards I edited the photograph in Photoshop and placed the boxes and text in Illustrator.

This was an illustration exercise by a group of us at my university one afternoon. We used an array of dots and media to create the final piece over a space of 45 minutes or more. It was displayed on the ground floor in the university of ulster some following weeks after, along side a number of groups which had done the same as us.

This handcrafted Russian Constructivism poster was based on myself, with influences from El Lissitzky. The theme I went with was PlayStation and I used it though out the poster design. I knew from the start of this brief that I wanted a strong hierarchy within the layout and that the poster would not contain any images so not to subtract from the composition.

The fronts that I used totaled three, Kremlin, Kyrilla and Soviet. I also incorporated the PlayStation controls (R1 and the triangle, square, X and circle) into the poster and “since 1994″ was then the first PlayStation was released. Finally the grey, black and orange shapes are based on PlayStation C.D’s.

“Article 17:4 of the international space alien guide book states that”

Ever space alien should carry a 12.7 sonic tone laser gun when traveling outside the cosmic way line.

Based on modular shapes these characters came into being from the use of 3 shapes and basic colours. These strange little aliens have a natural tendency to get into trouble where ever they may go “their curiosity makes sure of that” flying around in their U.F.O’s abducting and investigating are planet as they please. I also created farmers and animals to interact with the aliens. This image was the middle spread in a 14 page booklet composed of modular shapes.