My poster design features a music disk which centre is the island of Jamaica. It reprecents the music and the message spreading all over the world. The colors reprecent the reggae music and Jamaican culture. The poster was created in Adobe Illustrator and it was created for our illustration course.
The Reggae singers of the 1970s were red, green and gold. Now he is a shining gold chain. The power to release emotions is irreplaceable. His music inspires the fans. Every rhythm and melody of his music makes me feel the release and shout out the pressure of life. So the combination of retro and modern is the direct expression of my design.
When I’m listening to reggae music all I can imagine is the shores of Caribbean and an ice-cold Red Stripe. Stress is gone in that kind of moments and I think that reggae is a great way to relieve some pressure in this hectic world. So in this poster design a vinyl record is bending the bars of Babylon and apparently getting free.
Brass instruments are an integral part of reggae. I drew the brazen tubes of the French horn with the flowing, organic feel of reggae music in mind. I also enjoyed the idea of reggae being a small yet bright glimpse of positivity in an otherwise rather dull world, which became the central idea behind my design.
The characters wear costumes from reggae music and express themselves in their own way. The background USES reggae red, yellow and green to make the whole picture full of reggae music. The fonts were designed to show people, fat and thin, high and low, listening to the rhythm of reggae.
Because the theme is being the ‘Messages from Jamaica” I’ve decided to craft a series of posters briefly based on a mail-stamp format. I work with visual elements and type which I treat similarly (as an element). I’d like them all to work in unison and compliment each other to create a perfectly balanced epic poster. The pattern used on a record (vinyl) was created from plurality of elements and layers and explored in a broader way in another design of mine called a “Smoking Record”. Several textures, a retro atmosphere and a bright colors against the muted colors of the background – are all a big part of this design.
The boombox is often associated with the reggae genre, so I wanted to use this icon to represent this type of music. I incorporated
icons representing love and peace to represent the messages reggae music send to the world.
This poster shows how Reggae has impacted the world with its rhythm and meaning. It illustrates how reggae is now heard internationally and the main messages it leaves on people’s hearts.
I combined the word reggae with the modern technique of expression. The white part lights up reggae like a light beam on the
stage, showing the importance of reggae music.
Use modern forms of expression to make the world more aware of reggae music.
Posters also use cheerful lines to form interesting reggae music lion, which is interesting and dynamic.