Essay

My design was based upon the history of the Marathon Maple Festival Pageant. I decided to base my design on Art Nouveau. I wanted to make my poster have an elegant look, and use natural colors. My main focal point is the photograph. I wanted my poster to have a photograph as the main focal point, and not focus as much on the text. I used a asymmetrical design, and used a font that I feel demonstrates the “graceful-ness” of the pageant. The pageant is all about beauty, grace, and personality and I feel my design demonstrates that with the colors, font, and photograph.

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The Marathon Maple Festival and Pageant

The Maple Festival and Pageant started in 1971. A group of more prominent people in the community realized that something should be done to try and promote the town, at the time things were kind of dying out in town; the milk plant closed, we used to have a lot of jobs in manufacturing and business in Marathon, and around then is when it started to die out. So, they wanted to do something to "put us on the map" and someone had heard of the Maple Festival that was held in Burton, Ohio. Five people went and talked to the people who organized it came back and started up a committee on it. The first Maple Festival was a nice spring weekend, and a lot of people came, so many that all the places with food ran out the first day. I have been told you couldn't even get into town from the four corners because it was so crowded. They had crafts and things in the highschool in the classrooms, and they constructed a makeshift sugar shack on Lovel Field because the one we have now wasn't built for a while. There were a lot of businesses on mainstreet that had various things, and all the churches had food and other stuff. There was a pancake breakfast in the school and the Masons had a buffet. The Methodist Church had a chicken barbecue like they have now. Also, the was no civic center or maple museum or any of those other building on Lovel Field, but there was stuff in the firehouse. And as I stated earlier, they ran out of food on the first day and everyone had to go back home and make more, and I was told everyone was pretty tired and surprised so many people came. The Pageant was also taken from Burton, and there was a comittee for that as well. I was told it hasn't really changed much except there is more talent involved, which I guess means the dancing and singing that now takes place at the current Pageants. The first Marathon Maple Festival Queen was a young lady by the name of Sarah Smith.

Pop Art and Art Nouveau Posters

- Four Color: Bright

- Line Detailing: White border or none

- Hierarchical Arrangement: Image

- Position: Asymmetrical

- Illusion: Depth

- Relationship of Space: Even amount

- Color Harmony: Bright colors

- Four Color: Earth tone colors, pastels
- Type of Central Image: Various illustration

- Line Detailing: General cream colored borders

- Typographical Layout: Various

- Hierarchical Arrangement: Women are focal points

- Balance: Asymmetrical

- Illusion: Depth

- Relationship Space: Less negative space

- Typographical Variation: Uppercase

- Typographical Harmony: Renaissance looking font

- Color Harmony: Earth tones, pastels

Three Favorite Posters

- Proportion: Vertical Poster
- Four Color: White, Blueish-Green, Black, and Red
- Type of Central Image: Illustration in the lower center of image
- Line Detailing: Gray border, gives poster a "popped out" effect
- Interpretive Dimension of Type: Simple illustration, which makes the image more powerful
- Typographical Layout: Horizontal type
- Hierarchical Arrangement: Focal point is the image of the girl (her nose to be specific), and your eyes moves downward to the text
- Position: Image is asymetrical
- Compositonal Devices: Grid is used by making the nose the focal point, because the two lines of the grid intersect at that point

- Type of Balance: Asymmetrical

- Illusion of Space/Depth: The main image has a sense of depth

- Relationship of Positive and Negative Space: Perfect relationship of space
- Contrasting Scale of Images: One main image

- Contrasting Scale of Type: Small amount of type

- Typographical Variation: Uppercase, bold, evenly spaced

- Negative Amount of Space Left: Even amount

- Clustering of Text: All text is in the lower part of image

- Nesting Text: None
-Overlapping: None
- Typographical Harmony: Font style seems to be generic

- Altering Opacity: Image has a lower opacity

- Color Harmony: Bolder text color compared to image color

- Proportion: Vertical
- Four Color: Black and pink
- Type of Central Image: Illustration makes up majority of design
- Line Detailing: No border
- Interpretive Dimension of Type: Illustration makes up the image by designing the dress
- Typographical Layout: Vertical type down the image
- Hierarchical Arrangement: 27 Dresses is the focal point, up to women, and then down

- Position: Symmetrical
- Compositional Devices: If grid is placed over image the 27 Dresses falls right in the middle of the grid
- Type of Balance: Symmetrical
- Illusion of Space/Depth: The image makes her body have more depth
- Relationship of Positive and Negative Space: Good relationship
- Contrasting Scale of Images: On main image
- Contrasting Scale of Type: One “cluster” of type
- Typographical Variation: Upper case, bold, tight spacing
- Considering the Amount: Good amount of negative space to positive space
- Clustering of Text: Text is “clustered” to make it appear as her dress
- Nesting Text: None
- Overlapping of Text: None
- Typographical Harmony: Font appears to look like handwritten
- Altering Opacity: None
- Color Harmony: Pink text matches pink flower in hair

- Proportion: Vertical Interpretive Dimension of Type: Type looks hand-written, matches the movie
- Four Color: Earth tone color scheme
- Type of Central Image: Text is on mostly right side of poster
- Line Detailing: None
- Interpretative Dimension of Type: Type matched the earth tone scheme
- Typographical Layout: Horizontal, curved
- Hierarchical Arrangement: Focal point is the girl, then flower, then text
- Position: Asymmetrical
- Compositional Devices: If grid is placed lines intersect on nose
- Type of Balance: Asymmetrical
- Illusion of Space/Depth: More text/images than negative space
- Relationship of Positive/Negative Space: ^ ^ ^ ^ ^
- Contrasting Scale of Images: One main image
- Contrasting Scale of Type: Image is made up of mostly trxt
- Typographical Variation: Upper and lower case, mixture, variety
- Considering The Amount of Negative Space: Less negative space
- Clustering of Text: Clustered on left side
- Nesting Text: None
- Overlapping of Images: None
- Typographical Harmony: Looks like variety of texts
- Altering Opacity: None
- Color Harmony: Earth tones
- Typographical Layout: Type is on a vertical for most of the image, some is curved upward
- Hierarchical Arrangement: Focal point is the 27 Dresses written in pink, and then your eye moves up to the girls face and then downward
- Position: Symmetrical
- Compositional Devices: If grid is placed over image the 27 Dresses falls right in the middle of the grid
- Type of Balance: Symmetrical
- Illusion of Space/Depth: The image makes her body have more depth
- Relationship of Positive and Negative Space: Good relationship
- Contrasting Scale of Images: On main image
- Contrasting Scale of Type: One “cluster” of type
- Typographical Variation: Upper case, bold, tight spacing
- Considering the Amount: Good amount of negative space to positive space
- Clustering of Text: Text is “clustered” to make it appear as her dress
- Nesting Text: None
- Overlapping of Text: None
- Typographical Harmony: Font appears to look like handwritten
- Altering Opacity: None
- Color Harmony: Pink text matches pink flower in hair

Eleven Posters