FMP: David Carson

When responding to David Carson's work I noticed he worked in three main styles - where he first uses  hand written text styles to create this very authentic and specialised fonts which brings a real bespoke sort of feeling to his work. He then uses text in a very busy way where the text is placed very randomly and most often overlapped in their different characters sizes and styles. His last style I seemed to noticed is a style I really like to use in my own work, which is a layered text effect where the letters in a word sometimes are placed in front or behind the image in the design - creating a very vibrant, 3d effect - it also brings motion to his work. So when responding to his work i did just that! Using primary pictures I tried to creating festival promotional posters in his style and surprisingly I really liked the hand written style and the feeling it gives to my work. The title 'Icon' which was hand written stood out for me the most and I wanted to further develop and explore it. I then experimented with the hand written text that could almost pass as the logo, and each time I added colour, images or texture to it I personally thought it brought and reflected a whole new theme of festival each time, for example when adding the silhouettes to the logo - it gave off a very folk styled theme, so I made a folk themed poster to see if it could work for my festival. Unfortunately although i do like the style, I don't think it would work for what i'm trying to go for with my festival branding.