Artists & Images

Images & Artists

In some of these images you will find a great deal of Photoshop trickery. As an example, famed guitarist Jack Pearson (the Allman Bros. & many more) was removed from one room setting and placed in a new room I cobbled together from unrelated pieces. Upon request I have improved or changed people, landscapes, automobiles, clothing, and color schemes to flatter the subject and improve the message!

Denny Jiosa On The Edge- Poster Dave Johnson dajmedia.net

Famed jazz/blues guitarist Denny Jiosa was transitioning into a harder edged musical phase. I created this poster to illustrate that change in style. I pulled vertical shooting flames from a live action video to use as design elements in the header logo. Next I blew up a photo of Denny in sunglasses and embedded the flames across his glasses to go Bond ... James Bond. It looks terrific at full scale concert poster size. Denny was surprised by what I conjured up!

 

Jennifer McCarter poster by David Andrew Johnson Media Nashville

I must admit it. I love this one. If the lovely Jennifer were not so pretty, I would say my design choices and special effects were beautiful in their simplicity.

 

Kim McLean Shadows & Light poster by Dave Johnson DAJ-Media 85q

 

Phil Keaggy 6n1-Live Concert design David Andrew Johnson Media

 

Runaway Home Band Poster - David Andrew Johnson Media 2012 v2

This car was altered to the point where it looks like a different model. I expanded and repositioned parts of the vehicle by cloning and repainting the car body. This gave me more room to add the logo and embed the tag line across the side.

 

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. . . and, repainted the yellow guitar neck and body where the woman's hand was covering it up.

 

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I cut apart the actual pavement stripes from Abbey Road and used them as a design element.

 

Stowe Dailey Shockey poster David Andrew Johnson - Karen Taylor-Goog

 

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This design was a "complete" surprise for the band. I took them out of their concrete lined promo photo and placed them in a setting that befit their whimsical and eclectic musical world. The background came from a variety of sources. Stonework, foliage, mountains and sky were clone-painted to create content that did no exist in the original source images. The band was excited and quite surprised by the results! Notice the members are no longer in the same order or all facing in the original direction. A little body part repainting had to be done to replace the overlaps as well.


Secret Commonwealth band poster dajmedia.net

 

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I placed the actual guitar he uses as the image above his head.

 

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Laurence Juber of Wings Concert Poster by David Andrew Johnson Nashville and New Jersey

 

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PHIL KEAGGY No Regrets On All Frets 2014 guitar concert dajmedia.net poster

 

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Phil Keagg maroon poster

 

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I thought this was a clever idea. I took pieces from a retro juke box and used it to list all the information about the concert. I combined Song Titles from the band, and from some classic songs, with info about the Performers, the Show, the Food, and the Location.

 

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Experience James Taylor guitar poster design David Andrew Johnson of DAJmedia

 

Dave Johnson Phil Keaggy poster Nashville

 

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D.A.J. quickly shoots the guitar photos and creates the poster. ^

 

STEPHAN DUDASH ART OF SWING POSTER Nashville David Andrew JohnsonCreativeMedia

It's a celebration of 30 years of performing, recording & teaching!

 

Nashville Bellevue Picnic 2014 Music Schedule David Andrew Johnson JohnsonCreativeMedia.com

One of Nashville's largest neighborhood events.

 

Glows In The Dark

Digital billboards light up the night sky. The most fun part is the fact that I can use my office computer to control how my images appear on a very distant billboard. I can program it for the times of day, days of the week, and even months in advance. I set what will appear and in what order and frequency. Too cool!
These designs are extremely simple and a little awkwardly bold. They need to be because drivers zipping by must read the message in a few brief seconds.
 
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. . . and there is much more

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Posters For You & Your Fans:

They are both inexpensive advertising and somewhat priceless mementos. Combine a few posters, a little scotch tape and a handful of thumb tacs, and you can present your message anywhere you are brave enough to hang it. After you have finished promoting your special event, posters make great autographed souvenirs. And,.. the poster can be used as a graphic in your social media and on your website!

Nashville SCENE Magazine

More Artists, Songwriters and Music Teachers

 
Nashville Scene Magazine double page centerfold ad - designer David Andrew Johnson - JohnsonCreativeMedia.com

 

Double-Page Center Spread - Print Ad - "Nashville SCENE" magazine

 

The printed ad is more rich and detailed than the web jpeg above, but this image lets you see the completed jig-saw puzzle. The printed ad is also huge, so the text is nicely readable and the headshots clear.

 

MY ASSIGNMENT:  Fit the photos, teaching disciplines, and education details of a few "Dozen" people into an advertisement - PLUS - advertise the business!

 

A few DOZEN!, egads! Well, I started with a big white blank space, and nothing but the head shots of the "people", plus some raw text from their bios. The ad looks simple now that it is all worked out as you see it in front of you. But believe me, it takes much more effort and experience to make it all work than you might imagine. You have to visualize me in my office contemplating the brief verbal instructions and sitting there with nothing but a pile of head shots and pages of black and white bio text sitting on my desk.

 

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So how was I going to figure this out?

 

First I go searching for other key photos to represent the business. I need more content -  photos, graphic elements and advertising text. I assemble a selection of "good feeling" photos that I will later audition with the color scheme of the ad. Actually, half the headshots are my photography and photoshop work too. Next comes copywriting. Naturally I know about the business, but someone has to compose the actual words that are informative enough for the message, but short enough to fit on the page and "be balanced" in a design.

 

Now the challenge begins. Everyone and everything on the page is jockeying for position. All that bio info for each person is a dilemma. In the completed ad you see all the elements on the page in their relative size. But they did not start out that way. All the images where massively larger at first. Something as simple as size and placement is, no pun intended, a Sizeable decision. The possibilities are vast. As an example, the head shots could have been placed as a grid all to the right of the ad, with the main text and photos flowing down the left side of the page. My instructions did not include using additional photos. The add could have been nothing more than a set of headshots if I did not push to do more!

 

Now to compose the page. I drag most of the elements into a graphic document and begin to play around with different layouts and colors. How do I separate or combine the elements for the most bang for the buck? Do I fan them out in a curve, put them in boxes, overlap them, one-column, two-colums, three-columns, put some across the top and some across the bottom? I create a variety of multilayerd textures and blenlding modes to create the background. I play around with a few color scheme variations. There are a few I like, but the one I chose provided a good degree of richness and color, yet was neutral enough to allow the photos to dominate.

 

I could go on about all the tweaks I did from here, but that could turn this little explanation into pages of info. I'll simply end with this. If you saw the starting point of the elements I used to create this ad, you would be very surprised by how they do not resemble the finished product. Very!

 

Jumbo Oversize Postcard for Aspiring Artists

Put A Stamp on It, and In The Mail It Goes

 
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For Musicians At All Levels

World Music Nashville was Nashville's largest privately owned music lesson center. Student lessons were historically from 500 to 600 per week. Add in our full scale music store and the impressive live performance venue on the premises, and you have everything a hobbyist or serious musician could want. This Jumbo Oversize Postcard was mailed to our extended local community. It's message was simple. World Music would help you select the right instrument for you, teach you how to play it well, put you in a band if you so desired, and get you on a theatre stage to perform for a live audience with all the professional lights and sound you could want.

 

How Can You Improve Your Images?

Would you like your raw ideas and less than stellar images turned into something you would be proud to distribute everywhere. Then the answer is to give us a call here in West Nashville. In person consultations are completely free.