For this assignment, we had to research an artist and make a poster representing them or their works as a whole. I chose Jacob Escobedo, an arist living in Atlanta, Georgia, who is not only the creative director of Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, but also creates album and merch artwork for bands like Danger Mouse, Gnarles Barkley, The Broken Bells, Vampire Weekend, Matt Costa, and The Shins, who this poster was inspired by. The Shins happens to be a band that I really like, so naturally I wanted to incorporate that into my poster. The background picture was originally a sort of poster advertising a concert in Paris. All I really did was color over the words with the matching background color and type over it with a quote by Escobedo. This quote, to me, embodies him because not only does it represent what he does as an artist, it also shows that he wants to understand his work and make it great, not just do it for money.
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