For the Influence poster I was influenced by art deco designer A.M. Cassandre. He is known for his shading, bold typography, geometric forms, and striking imagery to create visually dynamic compositions that captured the attention of viewers. Some of his most famous works include posters for companies such as Dubonnet, L’Atlantique, Yves Saint Laurent and the Compagnie Internationale des Wagons-Lits. Cassandre’s designs not only promoted products but also elevated advertising to the level of fine art. His contributions to graphic design and poster art have had a lasting influence on the field, and his work continues to be celebrated and studied by designers and art enthusiasts around the world.

I wanted to use a wheel to implement the Little 500 design into my poster. Cassandre has a poster with a record, and I thought that after seeing his design and the poster that it was perfect. The hardest thing for me to add to the poster was the shading. I really wanted to make the shading to look good but not to blocky. So deciding the proper coloring was rather difficult. I also had trouble not having the texture go over everything. I did not want to the font to have a texture.

One thing that I am very proud of is the geometic font, I think that I did a really good job of executing the font. I found a font that it looks like he could have used without copying the fonts he created. And I added the colors red and blue, due to the fact that it looked like colors that he would have used.