I was drawn to this victorian style coca cola poster because of its elegant victorian style and it's use of rich burgundy reds and peachy pinks.  Also the fact that a glass of coke only costs like 5c!!!! 

I LOVE this poster!! It's a psychedelic poster for a James Brown concert in the 1960's. It caught my attention because of the way the words have been 'squeezed' into the shape of the face, and that they are difficult to read. I also like the black silhouette of the James Brown against the masses of blue text fanning outwards.

I did a google search on the singer and came across another one of his posters in a similar style. This time it is black, purple and peach but still has the same silhouette of Brown, filled in with unreadable masses of writing. 

The design itself is psychedelic, funky and 'different' however it is very overwhelming and confusing so I don't think it's a very good poster for advertising the concert.

Psychedelic Hendrix Poster

While researching the Psychedelia design movement of the 1960's and early 1970's, I found this Jimmi Hendrix poster on google and it caught my attention because of it's 'psychedelic' design, the colours, typography and the two-colour image of Hendrix.

What I believe is most appealing is split-complementary use of colour (the orange complemented with the purple and aqua-blue). The poster was most probably aimed at the younger generation of the 60's and early 70's because it is relatable to the 'hippy' youth culture of the time. 

The typography is also interesting as it is in the psychedelic 'unreadable' style. It is made to be easily read and interesting for the youth, and hard to understand and confusing for the elderly. This is a characteristic of most psychedelic designs, which 'squeeze' text into the most abnormal shapes to make it difficult to read at first.

The use of the black border is nice as it 'breaks up' some of the colour and is more pleasing to the eye than the rest of the poster.

Overall the design is spontaneous and loud and it was because of this that attracted me to the piece.

Nina Ricci Perfume

ok after quite some time trying to figure out how to change the file size of this image i have finally managed to upload it, the photo however, is not meant to be blue!!! Ok so if you can imagine all the blue being red.... you get the idea....

So I was given this bottle of perfume as a prezzie, and decided to write about it as i really like the packaging design and the shape of the actual perfume bottle which is the shape of an apple. The packaging itself is a white, rough textured box with the basic shape of a red apple surrounded with a silver brush stroke and a silver leaf. I think it is really well done, despite the fact it is so simple. Even the print 'Nina' has been used in an elegant font to match the rest of the elegant design of the packaging.