Recently I’ve been doing more and more tutorials. Today I did one from www.planetphotoshop.com on abstract backgrounds. It’s so simple and makes such a unique background. I decided to give it a shot after taking down some notes. I took one of my favorite images that has some striking colors and used it for a background. You’d never guess it but it was the Astronomical Clock that I took in Praha (Prague, CR) on my honeymoon over a year ago.
Being inspired by this simple yet effective background I decided to take it further and make some kind of poster. Not having a client or any kind of intent I really wasn’t sure what to put. I then thought I should do a poster for myself and/or Visually Speaking. Then I thought of all the design posters I’ve seen on contests or DeviantArt about what we thought graphic design was. As I thought about it I came back to Visually Speaking but I didn’t want to just put “visually speaking” under “Graphic Design.” Eventually I came up with “More than meets the eye…” I know, very “Transformers” but if you think about it, it’s true. There’s always a deeper message in the design than people give it credit for and often there’s much more that goes into design than one would think.
In the end, this is what I came up with (and boy do I love the fonts I picked 
). Enjoy!
Background Before:
Background After:
