kill this design: Mardi Gras 2024
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I don't know how you fuck this up so bad every year Sarah.
This is your Mardi Gras palette.
If you can't stick to this, or get reasonably close you shouldn't call it Mardi Gras. Instead say, "Mardi Gras inspired" or something lol.
Here is a blog I found by someone who is also a bit confused over the palettes, however there are 2 palettes that are actually correct. Or maybe 1.5 because the first one has a minor flaw.
https://avemateiu.com/10-mardi-g…
#1 I disagree with the black, and this is also what is wrong with your first design. You should keep black to a minimum, it is like the anti-Mardi Gras color. Again, look at that image above that I posted. Ignore the pink and white house in the background. What do you see? Tons of extremely loud and vibrant purple, gold, and green. That is your Mardi Gras palette. I get that you are trying to put a goth theme for your festival bcuz it's Sacramento, but you can express goth in other ways.
So #1 is half correct.
#6 These are the Mardi Gras colors I remember growing up 2 hours from New Orleans. 100% accurate, use this one.
The other palettes are ok-ish I guess.
Notice that NONE of them except for the last one #10 use two shades of green. This is why your first image doesn't work, you're using THREE shades of green, not to mention that ugly blue for the river.
Back to your design. I recommend drop the red, the pink, and the white. Those are not Mardi Gras colors and they clash with the rest.
My whole issue is with the colors. As far as the non-color related aspect of the design, I'm digging it. I'm not a designer but I'll take a stab at design critique below.
Maybe instead of all that busyness off to the right of the Jester that is representing Sacramento, you could make it OVERLY simple. Like have a genuine purple, gold, and green jester using palette #6, then have him overlooking a green plain, with a purple river, and move the gold dome near where downtown currently is. Then put the white date letters where the dome was and drop the scroll idea. Also, I'm not sold on the font for your banner. The fleur de lis is good tho, keep that.
I'm also not sold on the skull sun. How about just a Mardi Gras gold colored sky.
Again, if you fix the colors this isn't so bad, I just think you need to condense some things to simplify it a bit. But I'm a photographer, not a designer.
Hope it wasn't overly harsh. Keep working and I'm sure it will be fine.
- thanks cherub! I lived in new orleans for 8 years. we're just doing things with a bit more sacramento flavor. I like that site with the MG color pallets.sarahfailin
- I disagree that using a palette that doesn't look like barf would cause people to think you are trying to "be New Orleans" as u said down below in 2b.cherub
- On the contrary, I think it would cause people to appreciate the fact that u put some thought into the design, and that's more likely to leave a good impressioncherub
- So in essence, I'm saying you can do both. You can put your own spin on Mardi Gras AND put a little more effort into the design part. They aren'tcherub
- mutually exclusive.cherub
- Also, so far it seems like you are EXTREMELY RESISTANT to changing what is clearly a bad design, so why ask for advice?cherub
- I'm gonna accept some design clients and when they don't like my design I'm gonna say, "You just don't get me man, I'm putting my own spin on it. Sorry, nocherub
- revisions."cherub