NIOSA

I like the composition in this Night in Old San Antonio poster. Mariachi in the foreground and the city recedes into the background you even get a bit of the night sky. Makes me feel like I'm at the market eating some good food listing to some old time Mariachi sing.

NIOSA

This picture is of NIOSA which is NIGHT IN OLD SAN ANTONIO, I believe if I'm not mistaken and I like this picture the most because just by looking at the picture my senses start kicking in from the way you can smell all the different kinds of food to the mutter of all the people talking and the music seems to overfill all of downtown.

I usually don't enjoy participating in all the fiesta activities but NIOSA is something I enjoy going to.

Love the composition of this poster. The happy cascarone sun smiling over San Antonio makes me want to go to Fiesta! There is a lot of movement here which is what should be shown on a Fiesta poster.

Fiesta

I have personally never been to Fiesta, but from what I have heard about it, it is filled with bright colors and beautiful costumes celebrating Hispanic culture. I found this image to be pretty intense both in color and elaborate decoration. It is really beautiful thing to see and must take a lot of time to create.

River walk night parade

When I think of fiesta I automatically picture the river walk and all the lights reflecting off of the water. Most of the festivities and Fiesta related events are within the general area of the river. For example, the Floats in the night parade and battle of flowers celebrations are the most memorable for me. The colors, music and food make Fiesta what it is.

1981 Official Fiesta Poster designed by artist Jesse Trevino

I like the motion of the colors and floral patterns of the dresses worn by folklorico dancers.
The dynamic movement of the colorful dress forms remind me of fiesta events and express the combination of spring and the celebration of hispanic heritage.

El Rey Feo

El Rey Feo came to my school when I was younger and was my first impression of fiesta. Alongside, of course, the tissue paper fiesta flowers we would make. For me he embodies fiesta.

Poteet Strawberry Festival

Poteet's Strawberry Festival, I think it is a good time just to enjoy the view and rides.

Fiesta Flambeau Parade

I would have to say Fiesta Flambeau Parade, because it was my first Fiesta event.

Being fairly new to San Antonio, I haven't been to any Fiesta events as of yet. However, perusing the various images out there, I know that I would love the Battle of Flowers parade. I love the bright colors, the fantastic creative expression found in the various floats, and the celebration of the cultural heritage of the city.

Oyster Bake

This is the only event my parents and I ever attended during Fiesta. I always loved the various food booths and the different genres of live music. I got to see Better Than Ezra there actually!

This poster does a good job of telling the observer about everything that goes on during this event. From the music notes and guitars to the oyster logo with cowboy boots... a very clear story is told.

Folkloricas

Fiesta in San Antonio, the most colorful time of the year. I love the beautiful dresses that are made for this occasion.

LEGO

I chose this image of a Lego block because of it's simplicity of shapes and colors. The basic characteristics of the design is widely known and recognized, there is really no need for a noticeable logo because we immediately know what it is. Also, it will retain its identity when being illustrated in different colors and size proportions.

Toy Illustration

Hot Wheels- Ever since I could walk I've been collecting them. I like how they can make the car to the T, sometimes the designs are a little whacky but they are always cool to look at. Hot wheels are a great toy for children of all ages and yes even adults. They've become a real collectors item as well

I wonder how much money this man has made for Milton Bradley over the years?
I chose him because he is the perfect tool that can be used on posters, boxes, even on television. He is simply drawn with basic colors. Placement hardly matters since he says Monopoly wherever you see him.

1973 Evel Knievel Toy

This was a toy that has burned a wheelie in my memory, thanks to two older brothers.
It was a wind up motorcycle with famous stuntman action figure Evel Knievel and ramp included. This toy was known to gain speeds of up to 2 miles per hour and jump over volumes of books and other random objects! I like the composition and the font of the poster that conveys the extreme action.

Toy illustration

This was of the funniest toy I owned. You had to build it, add the electronics, and take it out to race. It was the greatest. The ones today are pre-built and that was half the fun.

Toys from another era. I love the nostalgic quality of the soldiers lined up, the bright colors and simple highlights that give them a sense of volume. They hearken back to a time when play required more spontaneity and imagination.

Mr. Potato Head

Mr. Potato Head has been a part of the average childhood for decades. He is a lovable character that encourages creativity in children and is just darn cool. He has become so known that he is even seen in children's movies such as Toy Story. With his big break to the big screen, it is hard to imagine that he ever be forgotten.

Nintendo GAME BOY/LEGO

I've chosen the Game Boy was because It was an old system that was made for on the go, and also needed 4 AA batteries to operate the system/And also i chosen the LEGO cause i was thinking of entwining both the Game boy and Legos in one making a Lego Game Boy.

Marbles

I am always delighted by the different array of colors that are exposed within a small glass ball. The colors are always in swerves or waves connecting from one point to the other. Marbles are delicate and fragile and are always noticed, especially under a table of light.

Teddy Bear!!!

Teddy Bears are classic and this illustration is as well. It gives the bear character by making it seem well worn, as if dragged from car to house to playground and back again. With reconstructive stitch marks it creates a nostalgic feeling for the viewer.

i like this image because of the color usage to the images and it look almost realistic :). the shadowing is also a good touch to give you depth and a shape of the image. good use of shadowing and color to indicate the image of the transformer

Lego People

The positioning of the Lego people is really working because it makes them seem three-dimensional. I like the way he has placed them with direction from one another, giving each piece a sense of movement. He has a good use of contrast, the colors chosen really make the legos pop out from the background color.

Erector Set!

The Erector Set hits a very nostalgic note with me so it was an easy choice among the available options on the Strong Museum site. The image of the instruction booklet to the left has great composition. I love how the jet zooming to the right really leads your eye across the picture plane and directs you to the city in the background. I also love the play on scale between the robot and the human forms.

Vintage Travel Poster

1930s Harz Germany Jupp Wiertz German Travel Poster

PRINTED BY: Printed in Germany
Printer: Herausgber Landesverkehrsverband HARZ e V Braunichmeig
AGE: circa 1930s
ARTIST: Jupp Wiertz
CONDITION: B+, Linen Mounted, very minor pressed wrinkles, small scuffs, barely noticed unless closely scrutinized. A great poster, displays beautifully!
Note: Jupp Wiertz, the well known (German, 1888-1939) illustrator and designer of this poster. He was most known for his Art Deco Zeppelin poster and other deco works. Wonderful graphic design, ready for framing.

This poster is from VintagePosterWorks.com a store owned by Deborah Clifford located
in the Hudson Valley in Ghent, New York.


I chose this vintage poster for its contrasting cool snow enveloped tree and (cold) hard edged German font against the warm fading orange background.

Denabi State Park, Alaska

The mountains and lake on this poster are well balanced and the lighting is beautiful. Although this is done in landscape view I can easily imagine it cropped to fit the requirements of our project. The colors shown here are not flat colors but would be easy to convert. The tonal values of this poster could be changed to spots of purples and pinks. Altogether this poster is very pleasing to the eye and gives a little warmer feeling than many Alaskan photos do. It is an wonderful view to invite travel in America.

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National Parks Travel Poster

I chose a poster of Shenandoah Nation Park, I am drawn to this poster most because the sense of movement it gives off. The stream is centered in the composition yet it doesn't lose interest because of the foreshortening of the water down the landscape. The foreshortening makes the viewers eye move up and down which helps the artist control where they want the information to be read. The color of the rock and greenery gives a strong sense of where the light is coming from. Also, I think the best part of this poster is that it isn't something extravagant, you really feel like you could be that close.

i like the way they use the colors to indicate depth and the fact that the im looks 3-D but its all flat colors. it also look like texture that you could feel even if it just a picture

See America

Nice, detailed WPA poster with fairly normal colors. What I like the most is how the different size of trees throughout the composition really help depict scale.

National Parks Travel Posters

I like how the colors are used in all four pictures none of them are too much they just kinda flow together.

I've never been to any of these place but just by looking at the poster it makes me want to go and actually look at the images that are on the poster.

Montana

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Created by Richard Halls in the 1930s for the WPA. This piece uses an almost color blocking approach to simplify the beautifully complex scenery to invite in an audience looking for simple relaxation.

Yellowstone

I like the composition in this poster. I like how Old Faithful is put off to the left side and not right in the middle. The poster does a good job at capturing the movement in Old Faithful and the sky. I like the colors used in this poster they are very dramatic and lively, they have a nice contrast to them.

See America. Welcome to Montana

I thought that this poster was really beautiful. I love mountains and the thought of the clean mountain air that is complimented by the beauty of the scenery, so this image really hit home for me. America has so many beautiful mountain ranges that I found this to be a really great representation of the natural scenery in our country.

Hawaii The Island of Volcanoes

I chosen Hawaii because I think it has a unique view of volcanoes, the surrounding body of oceans, and just plain nature. I wouldn't mind visiting this place once more. My opinion of this place cool place to be at.

I like the Grand Canyon, because I like the colors. It reminds me of my travels. A few years ago I had the opportunity to visit the Grand Canyon, just the colors and the vast beauty. I would live to be able to take my family so they could enjoy it.

Devils Tower

Devils Tower (Lakota: Mato Tipila, which means "Bear Lodge" is a monlithic igneous intrusion or volcanic neck located in the Black Hills near Hulett and Sundance in Crook County, northeastern Wyoming, above the Belle Fourche River. The Devils Tower is the United States National Monument. The name was misinterpreted to mean Bad God's Tower, but was later shortened to Devils Tower. Going back to the Jurassic period the Devils Tower still stands with grace. This dark red sandstone, interbedded with shale is extraordinary. It looks like someone had chisled off the columns of the tower. Being a fan of Stephen Spielberg, one can never forget the Devils Tower film debut in the movie "Close Encounters of the Third Kind". The Devils Tower is a historical, unforgettable sight.

Having visited several caves in Missouri and Oklahoma last Spring, this poster caught my attention. The monochromatic blue color scheme conveys the cool, dark and damp feeling of a living cave system. The large, lighter colored stalagmite against the smaller, darker colored silhouettes in the foreground and the less defined, darker stalactites in the background create a wonderful sense of space. The small figures at the base of the stalagmite gives one the sense of scale, bringing home the immensity and majesty one might encounter while visiting various cave systems.

FYI, if you're traveling through Missouri, check out the Meremec and the Onondaga Caverns. You will definitely experience what this poster is about!

Green Thumb

The designer of this logo is Von Glitschka of Glitschka Studios.
The Green Thumb was created to show structure, and recognition towards the environment. The designer used a great source of green colors to symbolize the leafs blooming from the thumb, overall it works really well.

Osaka Sushi Fish

The designer of this logo is Dan McElhattan of M3 Advertising Design. I like this design because he used a Japanese type writing style in the tail, which also gives the fish movement and a fresh look making you think of only the freshest sushi in town. I would eat at this place just because of the logo.

Wicked Combo

This design was created by Luke Baker. The logo's main designer is Luke Baker and it was created for Papa Murphy’s: Fishers, Indiana. It get’s to the point of being slightly evil but the food is sinfully good like a Yin-Yang.

SUNDOG

This design was created by Jamie Karlin, for the client Sundog. I chose this design because I thought it was a good choice of a design and it clearly show what the client wanted, and it is simple and to the point. I also like the relationship between the dog collar and the sun a very good way to combined the two.

This logo was designed by Alexander Lanevski for Ufa City Hooka e-shop. (Indstry- Hooka Entertainment Market). I think this logo is effective because not only does it incorporate the image of a hooka, it also includes the first letter of the company without actually using a letter. I also think it's clever how they put sunglasses on the hooka and turned it into a smiley face. (:

Tempo Models

Design firm: Karl Design Vienna

Client: Tempo Models

Illustrator: Andreas Karl

I enjoy the integration of the camera symbol combined with the font style and scale.

The typography has a flow that resembles fonts used by camera brands since the early sixties.

Nice use of a legible company name that simultaneously presents its logo as a letter.

Michael Jackson Memorial Logo

This is a logo that was created for an MTV video montage commemorating Michael Jackson. It is undoubtedly representative of MJ's form and PERFECTLY uses his shoes as the universally recognizable element.

Credits:
Agency – bbdo.de
Executor - s-farm.de
Source – pinkEYE & Logo Blink

Champion International Corporation

This design was made by Crosby Associates for the Champion International Corporation. The combination of simple lines and color to disclose the company's abbreviation make this a viable logo.

Literacy Volunteers

This design was created by the company Dotzero Design. The logo's main designers were Jon and Karen Wippich and it was created for the company Literacy Volunteers. I chose this design because I thought it was simple and to the point. The book and its turning pages are a very clear symbolic representation of literacy, which is obviously the main goal of the Literacy Volunteers company.