A poster finalized

Had a nice quick check-in with Natalia today. I actually did show her my poster, with the image idea, and she liked it, so phew. That's one poster sketch "finalized." I can go ahead and start coloring it, right now I'm seeing it in black and aztec blue (cyanish) with maybe some red details.

Here's the sketch, assembled from scanned pieces:

It will be 40x60cm, which is just under 18x24 and a little skinnier.

One of my main posters was the idea that Mexican design acts as a pendulum and swings back and forth between influenced by local design or by international design. Natalia favors the idea of creating a little mark or system throughout the posters instead that would designate how much the poster is influenced by local or international design. So I've decided on the scales as a "clever" symbol only because I'm a libra and my sign is the scale. :P It will be tipped one way or another depending on the poster. But that means that I've lost one of the ideas for my posters, so I've had to hash it out in a different way.

I've made a list of what each poster is: the design influence, the topic it covers, and how local/international it is. I'm also trying to come up with the text that will be featured on the poster. Here's what I have so far:

Posada – color (limited to red, yellow, black, and brown with some green and blue due to technological restrictions till the 30s-40s) –  balanced/slight international

The Mexican printer’s color palette was restricted until the 1930s because of technical limitations.

Art Nouveau – type (wood/handdone/lino) – international

Mexican typographers favored hand-done or wood type for much of the early twentieth century.

Art Deco – ?? – international+

            ??

Constructivist – treatment of image (woodblock illustrations favored) –  local-ish

            Ummmm something intelligent.

Indigenous influenced – intro poster – local++

            N/A

Art deco was the one I threw in there to replace my pendulum poster, so I will have to come up with something for that. And as for the constructivist text, I need to start reading more in-depth into one of the books I brought back from Mexico, which features that style almost exclusively... and luckily it's both english and spanish text! So hopefully I can read it fast.

And that concludes todays update. I'm hoping to color the intro poster tomorrow morning in illustrator, and I need to email alphagraphics about a quote--thinking about a print run of 50 posters of each style, and I'll just try to sell the extras.