final stamp

   This is my stamp project.  i chose to do the Ross Park Zoo for my project, and decided to focus on the bengal tiger.  the way i chose to go about this stamp style was a hand rendered image, as I'm interested in hand drawn works.  

   the style I chose was Art Nouveau as I thought that would be the best way to go about using hand rendered imagery.  After studying a few posters from the nouveau period, i saw that the text was always strong, bold bubble lettering, and the image was usually encased with a fancy border.  

   so the design process behind my work was to duplicate this style from the best of my abilities, so I centered my tiger, putting it in the "dead" center, not off to the side where the natural center is, as i noticed a lot of posters from this period had centered images with text surrounding them.  the text, I tried to keep it "wild" and natural looking, so it would blend in with the image and the jungle leave border.   

2nd round

these are my second rounds, here I started focusing on the style more.  I really wanted to replicate the style of art nouveau with sleek hand rendered text and imagery.  

first round "sketches"

these are my first rounds, but also has my final tiger drawing in it

art nouveau posters

The idea I had for my stamp was to use the nouveau style, all hand rendered and drawn out. I really enjoy this talented hand drawn style. hand rendered imagery/posters/stamps in our current day society are classic and hard to find gems

favorites

the reason i chose these three comic stamps are because the design concepts behind them. I like the idea of simply shrinking down a comic book cover for a stamp. In doing so, the work is already done. The designs themselves are dynamic and use the rule of thirds very well, all focusing on the main text then moving the viewer downwards towards a central figure, and then carryiong the eye back upwards with additional secondary text (most of which impossible to read on the size of a stamp) but it's a "cute" idea for comic book lovers to use these covers as postal tags.


the reason I chose this stamp is because unlike the others, it was designed as a stamp to be a stamp. also implementing the rule of thirds placing faces on the (actual) visual center: the middle/top right corner, or left, the stamp is a simple painting of the first meeting between two famous Disney characters.

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more stamps

the reason i chose theses stamps is, unlike the marvel stamps i chose, these were on on large sheet ment to be broken up, so not only did the designer have to worry about the stamp design, but all the pieces as a whole. the idea just got me thinking and impressed me

stamps as inspiration for stamp project