Frank Sinatra’s younger years were around the 1930s and 40s during the Great Depression and Second World War. During this time there started to be the Red Scare which Frank was also involved in as he joined several celebrity and Hollywood groups standing against the blacklisting of Hollywood and the music industry from the HUAC.
My genre is Pop with a sub genre of Oldies/traditional pop, but particularly in Sinatra’s younger years his genre was considered to be more crooner.
I created this poster by doing some slight photo manipulation in Adobe Photoshop by cutting out backgrounds and then putting them into Adobe Illustrator to do an “image trace” to vectorize the image. I then added era appropriate typefaces to add the artist’s name, time and place to mimic the concert posters of that time. I learned that it would be more difficult to create this poster than I originally thought because I would have to research the concert posters of the 1940s and see how they designed them. It was significantly less interesting than modern posters so some of my creativity was taken away but it was still fun to try and create a similar poster that might have been seen during that era. I would change how I approached the entire design by maybe adding some more graphic design elements with drawn elements, and if I had to do it again, I would want to lean into more modern designs.
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