Laz Marquez

Laz Marques is a graphic designer who began studying at the Art Institute of Philadelphia with a focus in Graphic Design. He then moved to study at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, to get better at 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.

His focuses on Entertainment Advertisement has given him the immense opportunity to work with some of the leading film studios on some brilliant films like X-Men: The Last Stand, The Grand, Miss Potter, Elvis & Anabelle and Goya's Ghost.

I really like this piece of his work. Although I have never watched the film, I am fully aware that one of the main scenes in Psycho is that of a woman being stabbed in the shower with horrible scratching music screeching in the background. After the attack, the camera focuses on the woman's blood running down the plug. Combining that imagery with the title is a clever and effective idea in my opinion. It's simple and straight to the point which doesn't waste time but still gets the message across in a very powerful way.

Another piece Laz has done for a Hitchcock film is The Birds. Again using simple colours and a simple layout, he still gets out the message. A common saying when describing someone with messy hair is to compare it to a birds nest. I think that Laz has taken a more literal approach to this saying by having birds actually coming out of the woman's hair. I really like how the woman's silhouette has still got texture in it and isn't just block black. I feel that it really adds character to the piece.

As you can now see by looking at all these pieces, Laz uses only three colours. White, black and red. I think this is effective and economicle as it would cost less to print them. I hope to use a similar idea for my T-Shirt design.
I love how the colours have been used to split up this image, it is simetrical apart from the words and the colours. It works really well and you can tell from the colours and the posture of the 'fighters' that they are on very different teams. I think that the contrast in colours represents the vast contrast in the characters in the film.

In his autobiography on his website, Laz says "Above all else, I have remained true to the on thing that I have understood for years, that I cannot live a day with out my passion to create."