Sacramento Mardi Gras (feedback requested)
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- cherub1
Getting the colors right doesn't prove you are trying to "be" New Orleans, it proves that you took the time to get an accurate palette because you wanted to represent faithfully, rather than bastardize it.
If I held a hometown "Christmas" party and used brown, navy blue, and apple gray as the theme colors and had a dwarf in place of old saint nick I think some people on here would lose their shit if I designed a poster like that.
The complaint would be, "wtf is Christmas have to do with this?"
You been to Mardi Gras, cool. You should know, make it festive. As for me, all 3 of these look underwhelming.
- the classic mardi gras colors are too cheesy and no one in california will identify with them. our mardi gras will not be your mardi gras.sarahfailin
- i do appreciate your feedback and your opinion though cherub. there's a lady named Louisiana Sue who has been doing a more traditional mardi gras here for 30yrssarahfailin
- it hasn't ever been anything but a niche event for folks who want to eat gumbo. my MG won't have gumbo, it'll have tacos.sarahfailin
- CyBrainX1
I'll second the idea of making those logos smaller. You could also make the gold section on the bottom smaller, the art bigger and I would move the white type on top off the Mardi Gras hat.
- sarahfailin1
I lived in New Orleans from 2003 until 2011. I've been to 12 New Orleans Mardi Gras. One thing I am really NOT trying to do is to replicate Louisiana or New Orleans culture in Sacramento.
When New Orleans does Mardi Gras, they're not trying to pretend to be another city. They are coming out with pride and joy about being who they are, where they are. That's exactly what we need in downtrodden Sacramento.
Our parade is going to be full of Sacramento things, with some trappings of Mardi Gras-- mainly beads, floats, and brass bands. We'll have local high schools, burning man shit, local dance troops, aztec latino dancers, low rider cars, and etc.
- cherub1
I'm a Louisiana native. Your palette is wrong. Your purple has black, your green is pukey and yellowish, and you have no yellow. Burnt orange is not part of Mardi Gras colors. I would lose the beads circle thing, and do more of a beads hanging from trees theme, or change the circle shape to a giant fleur de lis with scene inside.
Keep in mind mardi gras culture not only comes from French but african also, which explains the headdress and feathers, and maybe the gold.
- I wrote this long ass post and I see garbage post appears before mine. Whatever.cherub
- thanks cherub-- this parade is just applying the format of mardi gras to Sacramento culture. we aren't trying to be Louisiana here.sarahfailin
- which of the three do you like best (or hate least) of the three above?sarahfailin
- @cherub lol suck it, you stole our holiday! (totally right on the colors though)garbage
- haha garbage. yupcherub
- garbage0
Full disclosure: I was born in Alabama, so I'm an annoying Mardi Gras gatekeeper.
Lose the jester hat and the beads on the header, they're a bit much.
As for colors, Mardi Gras has three, but Krewes get a pass for color because of the competitions.
Traditionally though, it's just gold, green, purple (power, faith, justice).
Just my two cents, and "laissez les bons temps roulor" or whatever it is they say.
- was already thinking about losing the beads, might keep the hat... which color scheme do you like best of the ones I have?sarahfailin
- Use cherub's guidance. I officially cede Mardi Gras for the entire state of Alabama, because fuck that place.garbage
- nb2
Can you make it pop more
- i can make the logo bigger.sarahfailin
- do the art bigger and the logos smaller. you can make them bigger when you show your client.uan
- i thought this was a joke. how do you mean "make it pop"? turn up the saturation a-la the first version I posted?sarahfailin
- It’s just a little designer inside joke. But I do like your saturated colorsnb
- sarahfailin0
this version has the poster and letters using all the colors from the original art.- Why is the website underlined? Why is the date an afterthought? It’s super important.monospaced
- sarahfailin0
this version uses the art's original colors, and the font and other poster colors are slightly different from the art. my intuition is that the poster colors should NOT be different from the art, but somehow I like it this way...- I prefer these colorsmonospaced
- I also prefer these colors.CyBrainX
- sarahfailin0
this version turned up the saturation of the art's original colors, which were slightly dull. The rest of the poster colors are taken from these adjusted colors.
- sarahfailin
Sup y'all. I am doing some (amateur) design for a promotional poster for a big Mardi Gras Parade I'm helping to put on in Sacramento. These posters are just sketches, so things aren't perfectly aligned and all that. BUT can you all give me some feedback about which one works best color-wise?
We had an artist create some original art (in the center) which we're trying to design around. How we incorporate or change the colors in the art and the rest of the poster is what I'm trying to consider. I can't move forward with other design elements until I nail our colors down.