First mockups of the poster

I have the parts so its time to put them together and see how it looks and what needs to be done.



Fancy red rope things

Here are the F.R.R.T that would go done the side of the red carpet at something like a movie premiere. I have used the fame is a mask that eats into the face quote to create the red rope.



Carpet and monroe combined

They look good together but it needs some of the fancy red rope things they always have so it looks like its a movie premeire or something.

Marilyn Monroe illustration

I wanted a M.M illustration to walk down my type carpet so i have gone for the classic pose of her having her dress blown up. When you think Marilyn Monroe you think about this.

The skirt thing is from the 1955 film the seven year itch, i bet that was quite a big deal in 1955, kind of like when sharron stone forgot to wear pants in basic instinct. what was that!? TOO LATE!

Now days its nothing, you have it floating around quite literally infront of your face in Paranha 3d (i f***in hate 3d).

The style i wanted to go for was a quite simplistic film noir type thing. I still may colour the dress in using type but i dont know if that will be a bit too much with the carpet also being made from type. I may also put the fame is a mask that eats into the face quote on her face too.



The Red type Carpet.

Pasting all the quotes together took ages, but here i have a solid block of type to create my red carpet.

this would probably look better on a black background

Marilyn Monroe quotes

Here are the quotes i will use to create the red carpet. Shes has alot of good ones, some of them are a bit like something off loose women but most are usable and relivent to the original idea.

It takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde

The trouble with censors is that they worry if a girl has cleavage. They ought to worry if she hasn’t any

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, listens but doesnt believe, and leaves before she is left

Fame will go by and, so long, I’ve had you, Fame. If it goes by, I’ve always known it was fickle

Husbands are chiefly good lovers when they are betraying their wives

I used to think as I looked at the Hollywood night, ‘there must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me, dreaming of becoming a movie star. But I’m not going to worry about them. I’m dreaming the hardest

When it comes down to it, I let them think what they want. If they care enough to bother with what I do, then I’m already better than them anyways

A career is born in public, talent in privacy

Someone said to me, ‘If fifty percent of the experts in Hollywood said you had no talent and should give up, what would you do?’ My answer was then and still is, ‘If a hundred percent told me that, all one hundred percent would be wrong

I am good, but not an angel. I do sin, but I am not the devil. I am pretty, but not beautiful. I have friends, but I am not the peacemaker. I am just a small girl in a big world trying to find someone to love

No one ever told me I was pretty when I was a little girl. All little girls should be told they’re pretty, even if they aren’t

Unfortunately, I am involved in a freedom ride protesting the loss of the minority rights belonging to the few remaining earthbound stars. All we demanded was our right to twinkle

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go. Things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they’re right. You believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together

It’s not true I had nothing on, I had the radio on

There’s only one sort of natural blonde on earth - albinos

"The truth is I’ve never fooled anyone. I’ve let people fool themselves. They didn’t bother to find out who and what I was. Instead they would invent a character for me. I wouldn’t argue with them. They were obviously loving somebody I wasn’t

Say good-bye to Pat, say good-bye to Jack and say good-bye to yourself, because you’re a nice guy

Arthur Miller wouldn’t have married me if I had been nothing but a dumb blonde

A wise girl kisses but doesn’t love, leaves before she is left and forgets before she is forgotten

I learned to walk as a baby and I haven’t had a lesson since

If you can make a girl laugh - you can make her do anything

Imperfection is beauty. Madness is genius and it is better to be absolutely ridiculous then absolutly boring

the nicest thing for me is sleep, then at least i can dream

Sometimes I’ve been to a party where no one spoke to me for a whole evening. The men, frightened by their wives or sweeties...the ladies would gang up in a corner and discuss my dangerous character

An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine

Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man to hold him. After marriage, she has to hold him to make love to him

If I play a stupid girl, and ask a stupid question, I’ve got to follow it through. What am I supposed to do, look intelligent?"

I want to grow old without facelifts... I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I’ve made. Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you

To put it bluntly, I seem to have a whole superstructure with no foundation. But I’m working on the foundation

Fame is fickle and I know it. It has its compensations, but it also has its drawbacks and I’ve experienced them both

I am invariably late for appointments - sometimes as much as two hours. I’ve tried to change my ways but the things that make me late are too strong, and too pleasing

That’s the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I’m going to be a symbol of something, I’d rather have it sex than some other things we’ve got symbols of

I’ve always felt those articles somehow reveal more about the writers than they do about me

Dreaming about being an actress, is more exciting then being one

There was my name up in lights. I said, ‘God, somebody’s made a mistake.’ But there it was, in lights. And I sat there and said, ‘Remember, you’re not a star.’ Yet there it was up in lights

Suicide is a person’s privilege. I don’t believe it’s a sin or a crime. It’s your right if you want to, though it doesn’t get you anywhere

I don’t want to play sex roles any more. I’m tired of being known as the girl with the shape

Everyone’s just laughing at me. I hate it. Big breasts, big ass, big deal, Can’t I be anything else ? Gee, how long can you be sexy

Beneath the makeup and behind the smile I’m just a girl who wishes for the world

My illusions didn’t have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve

Only the public can make a star. It’s the studios who try to make a system out of it

Being a sex symbol is a heavy load to carry, especially when one is tired, hurt and bewildered

You know who I always depend on? Not strangers, not friends. The telephone! That’s my best friend. I seldom write letters, but I love calling friends, especially late at night, when I can’t sleep

They’ve said I want to direct pictures. I couldn’t direct traffic

I’ve often stood silent at a party for hours listening to my movie idols turn into dull and little people

I used to say to myself, ‘What the devil have you got to be proud about, Marilyn Monroe?’ And I’d answer, ‘Everything, everything,’ and I’d walk slowly and turn my head slowly as if I were a queen

Success makes so many people hate you. I wish it wasn’t that way. It would be wonderful to enjoy success without seeing envy in the eyes of those around you

I kept driving past the theatre with my name on the marquee. Was I excited. I wished they were using ‘Norma Jeane’ so that all the kids at the home and schools who never noticed me could see it

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can’t I just be an ordinary woman? A woman who can have a family ... I’d settle for just one baby. My own baby

Blonde hair and breasts, that’s how I got started. I couldn’t act. All I had was blond hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men

I’ve given pure sex appeal very little thought. If I had to think about it, I’m sure it would frighten me

A photographer once told me that my two best points are between my waist and my neck

I won’t be satisfied until people want to hear me sing without looking at me

I think if other girls know how bad I was when I started they’ll be encouraged. I finally made up my mind I wanted to be an actress and I was not going to let my lack of confidence ruin my chances

The new idea improved

Marilyn Monroe was fake but unlike jordon, paris hilton ect she was fake in a good way.
The quote that sparked off this idea was "it takes a smart brunette to play a dumb blonde" That is Fakery nailed, and its a good fakery.
Marilyn Monroe was very bright and she knew what she had to do to make it big and she went from orphan to biggest female star possibly of all time.
So im going to make a red carpet out of M.M quotes. It will be nice not to have to use the, for want of a better phrase, usless twats of the celebrity world.

The new idea (the red carpet)

My new idea is still using the same quote/concept, but insted of a mask im going to create a red carpet out type made out of quotes from fake celebritys. Its going to be a bit anoying researching into people like jordan and paris nightvision hilton but i think it could work quite well.

mask idea scrapped (and why)

The idea was to make the mask out of cardboard mask, but after a mock up of a mask was made one afternoon i realised this is going to look like a kids school project no matter how well i do it.
Plan B was to buy white masks and get the text for them in vinal, but....

• Its expensive epsecailly getting the vinal cut
• they would take to long to deliever
• i have had another idea

Stathams head

I really like how the first type test looked just on its own so here i have tried it using a celebritys head. He isnt fake but the one with the best shaped head was Jason Stathum.

 

Font tests

Here i am testing out some fonts to find out how the quote would look on a mask.

The mask idea

I have had the idea of making a mask and having the quote either...

• The quote cut out of the mask so the person who is wearing it has some face showing through.
• having the quote cut out still but insted of the persons face showing through have pictures of fake celebritys faces showing through such as paris hilton, jordon for a girl and charlie sheen type people for a bloke.
• cuting the quote in vinal so i have perfect type on the mask.
• having a white mask and projecting the type onto it.
• photoshoping the type on after but this is a last resort
• OR having a very minimalistic poster using illustration.

Fakery the idea

After reading the istd briefs i decided that fakery decided like the most fun to do.

To see my idea development drawings look in the development file

my favorite idea that i came up with was the first one that came into my head, it came from a ricky gervais podcast i listened to were they were talking about quotes. fame is a mask that eats into the face


I will use this quote and create a graphic interpretation using a method i havnt decided on yet. 

 

A great tutorial

 Here i have found a great tutorial for making a typographic image.

http://abduzeedo.com/super-easy-typographic-portrait-photoshop

The Why not assosiates

The best typography i have seen has being from my favorite designers the why not associates, looking at their work always gets me kick started on a project when im stuck.

crawley library

typographic tree columns created in collaboration with gordon young at crawley library.

blackpool climbing towers

collaboration with artist gordon young. a set of two, 20 metre high towers, blackpool england. cast in black concrete with white granite inserts, the towers have been specifically created for climbing.

cursing stone

collaboration with artist gordon young. 7.5 ton granite boulder situated in carlisle, england. inscribed with a curse issued by the arch-bishop of glasgow in 1525. the reiver pavement features the names of the families on whom the curse was directed

eric morecambe

collaboration with artist gordon young. typographic memorial featuring lyrics, jokes and catch phrases celebrating british comedian eric morecambe, situated in morecambe, england.

pobl + machines

 collaboration with artist gordon young. letter shaped seats for the national waterfront museum, swansea, which charts the industrial heritage of wales. the seats spell pobl (welsh for people) + machines and each letter represents an item located in the museum. 

walk of art

collaboration with artist gordon young. a one-hundred-metre pathway of names laser cut in chequer plate steel for the yorkshire sculpture park. a fund-raising venture where over 5,000 visitors payed to have their name inscribed on the path.

brunel academy

wo typographic art works for britain's first academy in collaboration with gordon young. school entrance wall featuring wishes made by the academy's students and a giant neon sign spelling out the words dream and aspire.