Laz Marquez Research.

At a young age, Laz Marquez came to realize that he had a passion for something. His passion was the urge to create art, and since those earlier days in his life, he hasn’t gone a day without thinking about the power, execution, and integrity of being able to create it.

Laz began his career as a Graphic Designer, studying at the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a focus in Graphic Design. He later moved to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, to better hone and build upon his abilities. At the School of Visual Arts, Laz majored in Graphic Design and Fine Arts, which gave him a better understanding of the principals of Art, even garnering him the honors of being a featured artist in the university gallery on numerous occasions.


Here is the poster that Laz Marquez created for the film 'The Birds' (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963). It is basically a black silhouette of a girl on a white background. escaping from the head of the silhouette are birds. I really like the messy outline of squiggles and rough splashes and lines. The idea of a silhouette looks excellent and the use of colour fits really well with the theme of the film, as it is a dark film. The title has been placed with a circle outline on the head of the silhouette, usually this wouldn't work and would look quite tacky, but Marquez has really pulled it off.

Here is a book cover from part of a series of Stephen King books. The use of imagery and colours go really well together however the way in what they have been placed isn't so good. Personally i really like the imagery in this cover but i dislike the text, mainly because there is to much going on and it slightly confuses the eye. If the authors name had been placed away from the title it would have looked fantastic.
The image is basically a white silhouette of a fat man on a black background with a smaller black silhouette of a slim man placed inside. The idea is brilliant but i don't think it has been thought about thoroughly as the it looks like the slim man has a really long neck and a bad posture, although it is supposed to be the same man just slimmer and surely loosing weight would improve your posture not make it worse? The colour of the text is actually quite hard to read as some areas blend into the image or the background.