Thursday, October 15, 2009

So that you can ignore the toilet/vagina/abattoir ...


by J J Cohen

To assist you in ignoring the Graphics Gone Wrong! image I provided in the post below, here is suggestion number two: I am thinking of working with the Romulus and Remus segment of the Franks Casket as the background for the seminar's logo, with the seminar title imprinted across a lighter version of the image at left.

I like the coziness of the panel, its staging of danger within a scene of weird nurturing, its dynamism within enclosed spaces, its marriage of text and image...

[update: graphically enhanced version here]

6 comments:

Karl Steel said...

Great image, one I'd be proud to be advertised by. But if you're overlaying text on it, I wonder if it'll be too busy for a background?

Another Damned Medievalist said...

great minds, Karl! But I think if this were muted a little, and then the writing in a sans serif font in a compatible color, it might be fine :-)

Eileen Joy said...

Great image, and do the text overlay in a black box for striking contrast which will also look beautiful set against the gray-slate look of the casket itself.

anna klosowska said...

I love it!!!!

Anonymous said...

those little people - they look so happy

Nic D'Alessio said...

I agree mostly with Eileen. This is a very nice image, but I would use the "naturally" present sectioning to put the text in rather than a full overlay. I just don't want to see the image in the middle obscured.