GBL Championship FATAL FIVE WAY

Sweet lord did we have some great turnouts for this. I'm not sure if we need to have critiques with these. If we do, I'll add them in later. It's kinda late and I'm feeling lazy.

1) J-Dav
2) Sean
3) Blade
4) Epic Z

I don't know about this, Hah.

It's a little toss-up between J-Dav and Sean.

However, since I work at a bar where we practically get live music all the time (Indies Music, etc etc.) I always see these ads for bands, cds, etc etc.

This was a toughie, but sean nailed it right on the spot. I've read these music magazines, and have seen these music ads.

Sean, you nailed it pretty good to be honest. You got the title, you got a couple of songs listed on there, the name of the album, etc etc. It is so fitting.

J-Dav, your is pretty good from the colors, to the font. It wasn't strong enough to beat sean's though.

Mole, The Killers' Ad looks something that they would make, but however the lack of font/text killed it though. I feel that the lack of text, effects has somewhat made the ad lacking of attraction so to say.

Blade, I would suggest that you should move away from Wrestling just to open up more possiblities, to explore more creative ideas. However, with this GFX, you've done a good job of creating a WWE Ad though, but I wouldn't blend Orton or even colorized Orton to match with the background color. Anyway, yours is good.

EpicZ, I'm sorry but what the hell is this? Everything's all over the place. You can't even read the text, it gets lost. Everything's pretty lost, the bad choice of fonts, etc etc.

Anyway, here's my list of order.

1.Sean
2.J-Dav
3.Mole
4.Blade
5.EpicZ

1. Blade
2. J-Dav
3. sean
4. Mole
5. Epic Z

Sean - This definitely looks like something I could see in a magazine, and the style matches the music. For some reason I don't like the border at all. Also, it's risky to have a border like that for a print ad because of varying trims, but as a flier, this would be great.

Mole - I totally love how this captures the style of the CD and I think it looks great. It's just a little simple for an ad.

Blade - I like the background and I'm glad you used the CD cover. I think this works for a wrestling thing, but that's not saying a whole lot because I don't know if it would work anywhere other than in WWE magazine or something. And the picture of Kelly kind of looks like its there for no reason.. like you needed to fill that space.

Epic Z - There's not a whole lot I can comment on this because it's just not very good at all. There aren't little tweaks you can make to make it better, you really would have to start over again to make something useable. The font for the band name isn't bad, but doesn't look good in the graphic. The spiral and the standard photoshop filters on the photo look bad. You should never make something that you have to look that closely to figure out what is going on... too crazy. And there's just not any sort of color scheme or composition. Spend time looking at other work, the other work here or in magazines and don't be scared to copy it to get the feel of making something that looks good.

J-Dav - At first I really didn't like this at all. But it really grew on me because it really looks like an ad I'd see in the Sunday paper ads. Nice job using the Best Buy ad fonts and tying in promotions just like would really exist.

This is tough to order; I'm split between Sean and J-Dav, and it's hard to choose because they're such different style ads. Sean's wouldn't look good in a widely circulated ad, and J-Dav's wouldn't look good in Alternative Press or hung up outside a venue. They're each equally good for their styles, in my opinion.

I will say that I think both Sean and Mole would've been better if they put in the CD cover. It might not have looked as nice as a graphic, but when you think about ads, you gotta put the CD cover so people know what they're looking for. Particularly Sean, as the CD cover is pretty different from this design. IF the poster was advertising just a band or a concert, I'd give it to Sean. But, because it was supposed to be about the CD, I have to go with J-Dav, though I don't think its better enough to win the belt if this were the deciding competition.

1. J-Dav
2. Sean
3. Mole
4. Blade
5. Epic Z

Self-taught, though I'll be starting my major in New Media (more directed towards Web Design but it'll start off broad) this fall.

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Looking at everyone's critiques, I definitely agree with what's being said. I'm really glad that the GBL has revitalized this board enough that I can do something this far out of my comfort zone and actually get quality responses like this. I'm not really sure that I can add anything that hasn't already been said.


New Point Count:

Sean: 13
Mole: 22
Blade: 20
J-Dav: 9
Epic Z: 36 - Eliminated

1.) Sean
2.) J-dav
3.) Mole
4.) Blade

Self taught, I took graphic design in High School but my teacher was terrible. I learned absolutely nothing because she never taught us how to use anything and just gave us assignments to do.

I'm very surprised mine is actually being liked. I did it literally an hour before it was due and I think it's terrible.

Taught by the past members of this board. and self taught as well.

Sean: 14
Mole: 25
Blade: 24
J-Dav: 11

Ahh, I am eager to see what happens - figure it out!