"Quotes Poster"

"Quotes Poster"

 An 'out of the hat' quote. Design a poster, billboard and a t-shirt.

For this project we were given a quote and told to design from that. I got given one by Sharon Stone:

"Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake whole relationships".

 Whenever I get given project the first thing I do is my research - I can not design unless I am properly informed about the subject matter. Sharon Stone is an actress, model and producer, perhaps best known for her role in Basic Instinct and Casino, for which she won a golden globe. She is someone who may be considered overtly sexual and has on occasions been known to have a tenuous link with the truth. For example, her role playing the bisexual serial killer Catherine Tremell containted a notorious scene where she is being interogated by police offices. She is sitting with her legs crossed, un-cross's them, spreads her legs and reveals she is wearing no underwear, then recrosses them. All whilst smoking a cigarette. She plays it overtly cool, never flinching, a female seeming wholly in control. It was one of the first bits of full-frontal nudity in film history and gained her a certain leval of notority. However, she later denied she was aware of the nudity, saying:

"I knew that we were going to do this leg crossing thing, but i did not think you would see my vagina in the scene - I was shocked".

The director of the film, Joe Eszterhas, said otherwise, stating .."she was fully aware".

This was a repeated pattern over the years, with people such as the Dali Lama claiming she was a liar. She has also stated she is a member of Mensa, although this has not been verified. To get a broader view of Sharon Stone I also collected some other quotes:

"A woman has many faces as she goes through her life. It's like we need more than one hair-do. We have many, many changes in the evolution of our lives. We have, we learn, and we grow; we view life differently, and life views us differently."

"At first it was exhilarating but when I realized it wasn't going away, it became scary and claustrophobic. Fame is a weird thing."

"Ava Gardner was the most beautiful woman in the world, and it's wonderful that she didn't cut up her face. She addressed aging by picking up her chin and receiving the light in a better way. And she looked like a woman. She never tried to look like a girl."

"Before I was a year old I walked and talked and I was even potty trained. When I started going to school I think I got on everyone's nerves because I used to ask adult questions rather than settle for the stuff usually fed to kids."

I wanted my poster to evoke a sort of old hollywood glamour, and even though it was purely typographical, be synonomous with the quoter. In the end, for the poster I choose a typeface called Dream Orphans that I felt wouldnt look out of place in some film credits, and arranged the words as if there were legs crossing over.

For the billboard I kept with the Black and White theme and this time, although not explicity allowed by the brief, added an image. To me, doing a billboard poster about a film star without an image of said film star seemed odd - afterall, film stars careers are wholly based on their images. I there included a sultry looking pose of Sharon, alterend to monochrome, and stated a few facts on the opposite side of the image. I wanted the poster to show the side of Sharon that was perhaps untruthfull.

The t-shirt design, which in the crit someone pointed out would be so much more appropriate on a white pair of underwear, I put the word 'fake' in the middle of the spreadness. This was to make a comment on how sexuality in cinema is quite often the complete opposite of what actual sex is life. Sex on film is impressive - artfully tousled hair, full face of make-up, simultanious multiple orgasms. Sex in real life is real - great, but sometimes funny, and often messy. If we all had a fictional film sex life, I imagine life would be a lot less fraught!

To accompany this project I also made a book that included images of Sharon Stone and various quotes to give a more well rounded view of her.