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.