Friday, 8 January 2010

Another idea for the DVD cover style of Digipak


I often check certain websites which sell clothing for new designs, as I do enjoy looking at some of the styles, and wondering how they are done, due to being a graphic designer in a local store for printing on clothing anyway.
Recently I found this design which caught my eye before the others around it, due to it's simplicity and bright colours. It's a design by a well-known brand, "Famous Stars and Straps", if you see their logo you might recognise them. This design concists of three colours, blue, red and black. The red and blue act as the effect of wearing 3D glasses, which are then shown above the text to emphasis on this. I think this technique works really well and does look good with the text/graphics involved. If I were to use it for my DVD Digipak, it would link with current films which are coming out which use 3D glasses such as "Avatar" and "..". The three colours are of the same image, which then slightly overlay to give off the effect of a blurry image, which when wearing 3D glasses, it will look normal. It's a very clever idea which then looks professional due to the effect it creates.


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New upcoming artist "Mr Hudson" has used a similar idea for his CD artwork, using an image of himself three times to create an effect of blur, giving the same effect from this T-shirt design.


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As you can see, the idea is pretty straight forward to create (picture above created by myself quickly), You create one text layer which has red text, then another which has blue. If you then move the blue layer so that half of it is still ontop of the red text, and then change it's layer style to 'Darken', then you will get this effect. So simple yet so effective.

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