A poster is more than just an advertisement bill or a sheet of paper which you place on the wall in order to hide the hole. It can be a piece of art decorating your interior and styling your room.
Creativity is one of the human features. Thus, the desire to be surrounded by beautiful and nice things is natural. If we combine these two characteristics - creativity and craving for beauty - we'll find a great variety of the means which help us to make our life a little bit brighter and interesting.
Be it a poster of Judy Monterey 1963 or one of the Andy Warhol's works, each poster may become a part of the interior. Thanks to the modern technologies it's easy to find what you need and what you like. The main thing is to choose the theme and the way of design. With the help of posters it's possible to give tone to any interior - office, home, village house, kids' or teenagers' rooms.
Concerning that, it's important to select a proper theme. Of course, the most popular are marines, landscapes, city sceneries, architecture, photos of animals, flowers and fruits or vegetables. Depending on the theme, it's possible to find out where it's better to use this or that poster. For example, at the office flowers or smiley cartoon animals seem to be a little bit odd. It's better to use the abstract poster of smooth colors which bring peace, calmness and feeling of stability in the whole business interior. Since original pictures are very "capricious" regarding the conditions of their keeping (humidity and direct sun rays are very harmful to their quality), they prefer using the posters at living rooms and kitchens. The kitchen themes of posters are French small cafes images made in vintage or sepia style, also, fruits and vegetables. By the way, sepia is one of the easiest effects applied to the posters. You can even make such a poster by your own. Just find a nice photo in the Internet, browse it into one of the photo editing programs (for example, Photoshop) and experiment with the layers (menu Image-Grayscale-RGB-Hue and Saturation). Then put your piece of art into the frame with glass - voil?! - you are a happy owner of the original poster. The best poster for the kids' and teenagers' are movie posters, celebrity posters and music posters which present the photos of famous people and extracts from clips. For the youngest children cartoons fit most of all.
Regarding the movie and music posters, perhaps, few people know that they are actually copies of sketches and pictures. In other words, there is a person (usually a designer or a painter) who creates some sketches on the theme (as a poster for the new movie or new music album), then offer these patterns to the responsible artists who choose the best one or some of them to promote a movie/an album in the different countries. For example, Dru Struzan used to work only with natural materials: paints, crayons and canvas. As a result, thanks to his talent and hard work this person achieved the moment when the teenagers from all over the world fixed his posters to the walls ("The Star Wars", "Harry Potter" and "Indiana Jones" are only a few of them). Some other designers used to create the posters with the help of design software. Time is moving forward, the new and new innovative ways to design posters are worked out.
To speak about the styles of posters, the so-called art posters or replicas of famous paintings are becoming more and more popular. There is a wide range of the styles which are applied to these works. It's worthy noting such style as seriography. This way to edit the original pictures allows repeating the initial texture of the model. Nowadays, to purchase the piece of art which resembles the prototype is considered to be fashionable! By the way, this kind of art could be quite expensive. For example, the seriography set of Andy Warhol has been sold for about 18 million USD. These posters are also referred as "print" or "art posters".
Digital art is one more progressive tendency in the market of posters. Digital art is the way to combine photo's peculiarities, computer editing and 3D options. Why not to use such posters in the high-tech interior?
Decor is an important feature of any poster. You may find a lot of standard posters which are printed for thousands, or prefer various ways to decorate the poster. To name some of them, there are posters on matte or glossy photo paper, on canvas, on parchment, on glass, on cloth, on wooden surface and so on and so forth.
Nevertheless, it seems that celebrity posters have always been popular. Especially now you can enjoy great variety of Lady Gaga posters, Jessica Alba posters, Enrique Iglesias posters and many others. Lady Gaga poster can be a great thing to buy, if you like this pop music artist, if you find her songs catchy and her style unique and attractive. |