I was approached today to make a fast layout for the poster promoting a book presentation event. (The book is a poetry written by a contemporary russian artist Vladimir Yashke, from the famouse 'MITKI' group).
I was provided the book cover (see in the end of the post) and a suggest that the posteds colour would go well with the cover's colours.
This is the final version:
Its minimalistic, the book-cover image is stretched as possible, with the banner zone above it making an accent, and the contacts zone below, 'in the basement', making the final cut. The blueish background, 'glueing' it altogether, is the same cover, converted to black-and-white mode, tinted into the same blue color, and layered with 30% transparency.
Here are all four variants I made, illustrating my route. From less minimalistic to more, and changing the accents.
Original (source) file:
Yes, I changed this 'dirty' yellowish grade of the cover to more sympatico looking blue (giving less yellow to the final mix, make it less green and leaves the spectator with no 'it-is-dirty' feeling - thats basics).