Title: Camera Japan Festival 2011
Author: camera japan
Year Produced: 2011
While I was searching for festival posters, this colourful poster caught my eye because of the expressive character and nice layout. The character is wearing a red tengu (heavenly dog) mask that is diagonal to the caption ‘Camera_ film_ festival_ 2011’. So when someone looks at the poster they are first drawn to the bright red, odd character and then follow over to the title. The colour scheme is very bold (red, blue, yellow, black, white) this acts to contrast the poster very strongly.
The dynamic layers give the poster a lot of action, popcorn spilling out everywhere and the character is not locked into the frame with his staff slightly out of the frame. The font is quite playful due to its bubbly overlapping nature and has a subtle drop shadow which adds a bit more depth to the poster.
Overall I really enjoy looking at this poster and appreciating the Japanese humour and simple design style.
mitchell Read 