Design a feature film poster for our open source movie.
Fame/riches to follow…
Palla has released his latest stunning image for A Swarm of Angels visualisations under a Creative Commons license (CC-BY-NC-SA 3.0), so we can use it as the main photographic element of our teaser poster for The Unfold. We’d like you to make the final design.
Brief:
The image explores one of the main visual effects of the story — the idea of the world splitting, fracturing, and unfolding. The poster should showcase this using the photograph as a core visual, but with additional typographic and illustrative elements as the designer sees fit. This is an opportunity to indulge in classic and artistic poster design free of the usual commercial imperatives and informational clutter associated with many modern examples.
Posters format:
Final size - A2 (16.5 x 23.4 in — 420 x 594 mm). Portrait or landscape aspect ratio.
Submissions should be preview jpegs no more than 1500 pixels in length maximum.
All images submitted must fall under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC license, with the winning image able to be used in all ASOA activities.
The winning design will be decided through discussion at The Nine Orders forums, alongside Palla and myself. Besides the poster being printed, as well as featured in future publicity and exhibitions, the designer will be entitled a revenue share of any proceeds from the poster.
Submissions are welcome from members and non-members of the Swarm. You can enter by posting a link to your poster image in the comments (contact us for any questions).
The final poster will be made available for purchase so please join the swarm or sign-up to the mailing list to be kept informed and register your interest.
Elements required for poster
- Title: The Unfold
- Main image: Palla 964 Cityscape (Download Posterpack)
- Other text: A film by A Swarm of Angels, An open movie, www.aswarmofangels.com, Main photograph by Palla www.pallalink.net, Design by XXX,
- Other graphic elements: A Swarm of Angels logo, Creative Commons image (CC-NC-SA 3.0)
- Download Posterpack (Palla’s 964 Cityscape image + A Swarm of Angels logo files)
- Creative Commons image presskit page
Please post your poster link in the comments below (moderated).
Deadline: June 1st, 2007
EDIT: EXTENDED DEADLINE: We had a few requests to extend the deadline so those who just missed it can get the work in still by June 6th, 2007.
We’re really pleased with the response so far with over 50 comments.
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May 22nd, 2007 at 11:27 am
Jaman
when’s the deadline?
May 22nd, 2007 at 11:29 am
matt
Good point. June 1st. Will amend entry.
May 23rd, 2007 at 10:31 pm
Nicholas
I understand that this photo is the core visual but does every part of it have to be used?
May 24th, 2007 at 4:55 am
matt
@Nicolas: The CC license it is under means you can adapt and remix the work. So the answer is no, you do not have to use all of the picture, or ‘as is’.
Please adapt/remix as you see fit.
May 24th, 2007 at 5:31 pm
Brian Smith
(smithmeisterUK on the forum)
Just wanted to help out as a fellow angel and get things started, here’s the link anyway: http://www.48k.co.uk/theunfold_lowres.pdf
May 24th, 2007 at 5:38 pm
matt
First entry in the comments! Thanks Brian.
Dark, moody. Serifs too!
May 24th, 2007 at 5:45 pm
Codplay
How many designs are we allowed to submit for the voting? Will our last one be taken? Or the one we say? Or can they all be judged on their own merits?
May 24th, 2007 at 8:08 pm
Chris
Hey number 2 ain’t so bad… I like where this poster is going, any debate and or direction is definitely welcome? If allowed?
I like the way all the items appear to radiate from the triangle of light, the straight, vertical extension of the header lettering serves to disorientate the viewer when trying to gain a comfortable view on what looks to be a frame fallen askew. I have broken up the clean font face to further enforce this seemingly unraveling state of chaos. Might play with a more rounded version, of a similar weight font. Light guides the viewers eye across the relevant secondary information and down to the CC logo. The secondary info bar serves to ground the smaller copy, as well as act as a tag like device, directing the viewers eye eventually to a minute point on the freeway. This draws or invites the audience into our journey. Think I’ll try some other colour combinations, but like the strength of the red, black and white. Possibly exchange just the red?
Enjoy.
http://www.clausie.com/theunfold_clausen01.jpg (full size)
May 25th, 2007 at 4:00 am
matt
@codplay:
> how many designs can we submit?
Good question. I think 3 max, but all will be judged on their own merits. There is no penalty for having more than 1 entry.
May 25th, 2007 at 7:35 am
GK Farmer
I’d love to hear what you think - drop me a line…
I can’t find a way to get the larger image uploaded to the net - any help with that would be appreciated.
My thanks for the fun,
Col. GK Farmer
May 25th, 2007 at 7:40 am
GK Farmer
Oops. I haven’t got the hang of these blogs and forums yet.
The design is at:
http://www.geocities.com/theoldcrowunlimited/gkf-design-theunfold-small.jpg
Thanks again.
May 25th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
itronic
Are we supposed to create just this low-res preview or the final hi-res image as well?
May 26th, 2007 at 6:41 am
matt
@tronic: Thanks for the query. The low-res preview with the provided preview image is fine (the 1500px dimensions mean they should translate well to print thumbnails if we need to get a snapshot of entries in print. - and we are translating these to web snapshots of 376px width for consistency in the comments as we get them.
Only our winner will need to be super high-res (I wanted to spare the 68M download, and meddling with superlarge file sizes in the first instance for people).
OK?
May 27th, 2007 at 6:29 am
Codplay
So, what you are saying is make them at print resolution in case you win, but only bother exporting them at 1500px?
Also, what are we looking at for print resolution? 300ppi? 400?
Ahh - all the little questions of a little green designer.
May 27th, 2007 at 11:35 am
matt
@codplay: thnx for the question.
what i’m saying is if you just want to make a low-res sketch rather than work with the high res files then you should (because the original photo file is 68megs), and that is why a approx 1.5 meg photo download is provided rather than the much bigger original.
Only the winner needs to be print res 300 dpi.
May 28th, 2007 at 6:48 am
lincoln
A quick attempt:
May 28th, 2007 at 9:37 am
Daniel Ferguson
Here is a link to my design I would be most grateful for some feedback
thank you, Daniel Ferguson
http://i202.photobucket.com/albums/aa137/fergie-1987/Unfoldposter1text.jpg
May 29th, 2007 at 5:52 am
Maribeth G Rivas
Here are my entries:
http://countess.deviantart.com/gallery/scraps/
Just click on the thumbnails having The Unfold Titles.
or you can go here http://breelee.wordpress.com/2007/05/29/the-unfold-movie/
Just click on the thumbnails having The Unfold Titles.
Please feedback me..
May 29th, 2007 at 10:01 am
Joemar Lamata
wow awesome..
May 29th, 2007 at 10:05 am
Joemar Lamata
here is my entry as of now
[img] http://www.mojominds.com/spike/poster/poster_small.jpg [/img]
here is the link: http://www.mojominds.com/spike/poster/poster_small.jpg
Please feedback me.. I will submit again my entry 2 and 3
May 29th, 2007 at 1:04 pm
ferg flannery
hello.
here is my entry for this yummy comp.
hope its liked.
http://i9.photobucket.com/albums/a62/fergflannery/asoa_flat.jpg
May 29th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
Vince
There’s some nice posters here. Here’s my take on it.
http://www.agencetopo.qc.ca/pax/navimg/posterUnfold_v2.jpg
-Vince
May 29th, 2007 at 5:39 pm
Carolina Monteiro
My design:
http://i152.photobucket.com/albums/s193/foiomelhordostempos/Unfold02M.jpg
Comments are welcome,
Thanks,
Carolina
May 30th, 2007 at 1:53 pm
Jason Large
Some really good stuff so far. I couldn’t resist having a go myself. Here’s what I’ve got as of now:
JASON LARGE
May 31st, 2007 at 8:35 am
Steven Chan
Hi!
Below are some link to my designs.
Design 01
http://bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/the unfold01.jpg
Design 02
http://bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/the unfold02.jpg
Design 03
http://bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/the unfold03.jpg
Thx. + comments are most welcome.
//Steven
May 31st, 2007 at 8:40 am
matthew ng ch
Here’s me shot at a being a small part of great film
Hope you guys like it.
Anyway, good luck guys!
www.bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/unfold_matt01.jpg
www.bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/unfold_matt02.jpg
thank you
matthew
May 31st, 2007 at 8:44 am
eugene low ek
Love your concept guys!
And hope it works out brilliantly!
Anyway, hope you guys love the posters.
http://www.bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/unfold_gene01.jpg
http://www.bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/unfold_gene02.jpg
http://www.bombshelter-studios.com/The_Unfold/unfold_gene03.jpg
oh. and incase youre wondering, yes…a bunch of us took the day off to work on some fun stuff, and we could not resist working on a poster for movie with such a title.
thanks
eugene
May 31st, 2007 at 10:28 am
Simon Potter
Here’s my poster, comment and crit are more than welcome
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x232/si_p_2007/poster.jpg
May 31st, 2007 at 11:55 am
Luke Avery
Here’s my contribution to this contest:
http://www.earthstudios.net/TheUnfold.jpg
-Luke
May 31st, 2007 at 1:55 pm
Dan
Heres one of my designs
May 31st, 2007 at 3:17 pm
Dan
sorry bad link:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/227/523633526_9ca50277bb.jpg
May 31st, 2007 at 4:15 pm
Peter Čuhalev
One more entry
http://www.yukaii.com/data/stuff/poster_unfold.jpg
Kind regards,
Peter
May 31st, 2007 at 6:31 pm
itronic
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/itronic/ASOA/ASOAposter1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v74/itronic/ASOA/ASOAposter2.jpg
May 31st, 2007 at 10:30 pm
Jonathan Valiente
hi there.
I really like Palla’s image for the Unfold and I thought it would be fun to give the poster design contest a try.
the link to my entry is:
http://firebluegraphics.com/unfold/unfold.jpg
thank you.
Jonathan
May 31st, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Jonathan Silberman
I’ll throw my hat in the ring:
http://www.fearless-future.com/asoa_poster.jpg
Thanks,
Jonathan
June 1st, 2007 at 8:03 am
Kole Krstev
My designs:
First one (i was in a happy mood):
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Second one (i was in a happy mood):
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[EDITED: SEE ACTIVE LINKS ON COMMENT BELOW]
Kole Krstev
June 1st, 2007 at 8:10 am
Kole Krstev
I’ve made a mistake…for the second my design I was not in a happy mood…:))))
June 1st, 2007 at 8:59 am
Dan
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/225/524842885_a5e34beea9.jpg
June 1st, 2007 at 9:41 am
David Nguyen
Hi all, here’s my entry:
http://www.davidnguyen.net/images/unfold/unfold_poster_davidnguyen.jpg
Cheers,
Dave
June 1st, 2007 at 10:03 am
Nicolas
my poster….
http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z160/insaneman_photos/theunfold_poster_nk.jpg
June 1st, 2007 at 10:11 am
pk
any chance of extending the deadline?
June 1st, 2007 at 6:51 pm
Tim Forden
First submission.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/56636661/
Hoping the deadline is 12pm today rather than last night. Does it matter that I’m on the west coast? or is the contest shutting down in eastern time?
June 1st, 2007 at 7:36 pm
Tim Forden
Second submission.
http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/56638993/
Maybe one more. Baller contest btw.
Go Brazil.
June 1st, 2007 at 8:09 pm
Kole Krstev
My designs:
http://picasaweb.google.com/kole.krstev/UnfoldPosters
I can submit my design today, right?
June 3rd, 2007 at 1:46 am
Carlmelo Booc
here’s mine:
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u90/yellowcaution/unfold_poster_competition.jpg
thanks,
carlmelo
June 3rd, 2007 at 10:51 am
matt
Thanks everybody. This is an amazing list to get through. Apologies for the moderation time but everyone got approved who needed to (evil spammers weeded out) …
Will post local versions as we work through the links!
June 4th, 2007 at 4:55 pm
Neema Sadeghi
Check out my design at www.neemasadeghi.com
once on the site, click on portfolio, and scroll all the way down. You should then be able to see it.
Thanks,
Neema
June 4th, 2007 at 6:43 pm
Neema Sadeghi
http://i1.photoblog.com/photos/5597-1180996236-0-l.jpg
here is a more direct link to the image, through another site.
June 5th, 2007 at 11:02 pm
MC3
Poster Design : http://www.mc3.com.au/client/aswarmofangels
Hope we hit deadline, only just come across this amazing project… we’re always a bit behind in OZ ; )
BTW. Getting good national radio coverage here
June 6th, 2007 at 1:11 am
pk
http://www.kamuflage.com/unfold_pk.jpg
thanks,
pk
June 6th, 2007 at 7:35 am
nicholasg
My submission:
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y271/roadblock69/glitch.jpg
June 7th, 2007 at 10:45 pm
Jennifer E.
My try. Hope it’s not too late. I at least wanted a chance to work with such a gorgeous image, even if it’s in vain. Thanks for sharing.
Jen
June 7th, 2007 at 10:47 pm
Jennifer E.
Hmmmm… The link didn’t show. I’ll try again:
i14.tinypic.com/4yjcvfs.jpg
June 9th, 2007 at 9:40 pm
nicholasg
Silly me used the wrong poster link - I was off another tangent completely.
http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y271/roadblock69/glitch2.jpg
July 28th, 2007 at 4:46 am
david andrum
WHO WON? It’s been two months now.
August 4th, 2007 at 4:07 pm
matt
Hey David, we were getting shortlist from the advisor team.
I’ll be posting the result from this next week, and it will be included as part of another voting round. I notified the participants what was happening, but neglected to make an update on the post. Sorry!
Cut a long story short, you’ll know this coming week…. [update: I’m going to integrate this in a member vote toward the end of the month)