Lecture Poster - David McKendrick

For the David McKendrick lecture I made the rather obvious decision to make the poster look like a cover of Esquire magazine, of which he is Creative Director. I know it's a bit of a cliché but it is often said that clichés work for a reason, plus everyone knows that supersized versions of things look cool.

The image of David was the best I could find on the internet and it was pretty lo-res, so I had to live trace it in Illustrator in order to get it up to A2 size at a decent quality. I know it's a bit of an amateur's trick but at the end of the day I am not an illustrator and I actually think the end result is quite pleasing in a slightly Hockney-esque kind of way: