My Hard Day's Night poster

This is a piece of work I produced for my final project of my National Diploma, and it remains one of my personal favourite pieces of work to this day. The brief was to produce a piece of work in any medium that promoted the ND course for the Plymouth College of Art Summer Show, and a lot of the ideas I had were based on favourite album covers and art works, and reproducing them featuring pictures of each individual student (and tutor) involved in the 2nd year of the National Diploma to really promote the course. After looking at different album covers, I decided to work on an homage to the Beatles, one of my favourite bands, and the cover for A Hard Day's Night, one of their biggest albums.

A Hard Day's Night had a memorable cover, and I loved the simple template that the cover had and the contrast in the black and white images, and I really thought there was a lot of potential in recreating the style of the album cover to produce a poster promoting the course.

I experimented with several different layout ideas and colour schemes, and I had to make a few changes to some of the typefaces - I had to include Gill Sans Bold Italic for the college logo, and it made sense to have the name of the course in the same font to make it match - but I'm really pleased with how it turned out, and all of the individual pictures seem to stand out really well with the gradient colour scheme in the background.

This is the best work I've ever produced on Adobe Illustrator, and I'd love to produce more homages to classic album covers over the next few years.