SF posters

Author: matthew /

Here are a few of my work that I've recently submitted for my typography assessment to date. I've taken switchfoot albums as my main theme & these posters act as mock promotional posters for their album releases. So don't sue me for false information in the posters...Enjoy(I'm not sure why all my pics are downsized once uploaded here so I'm sorry but you might not be able to view the fullness of it in detail)


This piece is actually a revamp of the original "Oh! Gravity" artwork of illustrated impressions of the band members. I've colored them in with pretty colors & of course added in typography in their hairs or else my lecturer might get a heart attack haha...Their names & some of my favorite track titles. The word "switchfoot" is actually in scribbled form..

Sf's collaboration with Relient K (a famous contemporary band in the christian music scene) & its called "The Appetite For Construction Tour" this is actually a fund raising charity tour but I've made it up to be an album. Anyway its just so nice how its title is the exact opposite of Guns' & Roses' album "The Appetite For Destruction". cool? :)
The initial color I tested with. Apparently gives a wrong bright candy sour feel. So I changed it for the former.


Adapted from the album "New Way To Be Human". Tried to capture the similar feel & use of method as of the original album artwork (bottom right corner or the poster, a fingerprint) Using flat dull colors thus leaving plenty of space for the word play. Those words are the tracks titles in the album. The typeface (font) is just like the HP commercial right? I think its the same one.

For this very piece I've borrowed the tree from Jon Foreman's EP albums & of course added in my own elements. You see the bird on the tip of the branch? Symbolic as a sign of hope on a withered tree. I actually attempted to give a wood grain effect to the background but it looks like a marker felt scribble without borders.

Promotional Design Attempt #1

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Date of entry: 12th Sept 2007
Headline: Christmas Choc & Candies
Sub H/L: Write your own love message "Get Your Loved Ones Sweetness This Christmas"
Designer Remarks: The poor usage of language was meant to relate to the target
audience who...doesn't understand much english! XD
Result : Layout rejected

Creme Graphic

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The Rise

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Dusting off the sand from my feet, I gaze ahead at the land promised to my forefathers of the faith. It may be a whole journey long & walking it alone will prove the reality of failure. But I am a follower of the builder & the path ahead shall he build for me & all those who put their trust in him. For the builder himself has promised love & he will build his temple of souls. I have decided to put down my accusations & complains of the days in the wilderness. Therefore let us continue the glorious conquest together, brothers!

Switchfoot is here! Live In Concert

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Tell me yea, if you're going :)

Dare you to move

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I dare you to move, I dare you to move..
I dare you to lift yourself up of the floor,
I dare you to move, I dare you to move..
Like today never happened, today never happened before.

A hearted musician

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The unfamiliar noise, the unwanted ringing in the air... No one, absolutely no one would ever be able to enjoy this kind of music, they told me... A genre too depressing for the emotionally equipped, a piece too difficult for the skilled pianist to execute. Why did I have to hear this scribble of notes in the air in the midst of all the harmony to my music? Playing a piece which I thought was so beautiful but at the same time challenges my stamina & taking much necessary toll on myself it finally calls for an early outro on a wrong note. "This is no good!" they commented. Hey, let me go through it again..whats wrong? Its a darn fine composition if you ask me. Look at all the perfect notes I've put in here & how do you beat this arrangement? Perhaps you can play my music with much more heart & soul but I truly doubt it my friend. Oh...oh.. I think I know whats the matter, argh... how ignorant I've been. My music has been playing on a monotone. Hold on, let me flick the stereo switch... This is not good..I can't find it! Only then have I discovered that the switch doesn't exist. Not clear if it ever did. An ending to my piece, too late has it arrive because it is playing me instead. The curtain call was anything but grand. Disguised with applause of empathy I call you a bluff. Very well then, I shall cease my playing. Because I long to make nothing but fine music.