The poster advertises Panic at the Disco's "Pretty Odd" album. It features images from the album cover including flowers, butterflies, and a drawn woman in the center. The album art blends in with the album's odd and bizarre theme. The background is a dark purple that allows the colorful album art to stand out. The contrast between the dark background and bright album art possibly reflects lighter and darker elements in the band's music. The poster's vintage style with old fairytale and children's book elements corresponds to the styles used in the band's music. The layout is balanced and symmetrical with the album art prominently displayed and textual information placed below. Iconic fairytale elements in the album art

1. Characters – There is no main character presented on the poster advertising the ‘Pretty Odd’ album for the band, although the primary image used within the
advertisement is an image of the album itself, which contains images revolving around the theme of nature in an odd way, such as various flowers, butterflies and
also a drawn image of a woman which appears in the centre of the flower and is the only character representation within the whole poster. This specific layout
and design blends in well with the ‘odd’ and rather bizarre theme which is often conveyed through the bands album art and relates back to their debut album.
Setting – The setting of the CD is animated like the entirety of the poster, a fairy-tale garden of some sort or something from an old story book possibly. The
background of the poster is a dark purple colour which allows the CD album art to project and stand out, as well as the other textual information which is
positioned at the bottom of the poster. The dark and plain aspects of the background of the poster contrasts with the brightly colours rather busy design of the
album cover, possibly indicating the lighter and darker elements which could possibly be reflected in the bands music.
Technical Codes – The brightness and contrast
within the images used throughout the poster
have been edited to give the poster design a
kind of old story book or children’s fantasy book
feel. The images, colours and style used within
the poster makes it look almost vintage, which
could correspond to some of the styles used
within the band’s music. The colours used for
the background, the album art and the title of
the band and album, are not too bright to blend
in with the theme of an old fashioned children’s
story book.
Design Balance/Symmetry – The poster layout
is balanced and symmetrical as the various sizes
and amount of text on the page balance well
with the main image of the CD cover in the
background as well as the very background
image with its borders. Whereas the main
image of the album art is higher up the page
along with the title of the band, the important
textual information is beneath it underneath
the main image. The balance between images
and the text on the poster is rather level, and
allows the reader or audience to be attracted to
the poster, and find it easy to read.
Iconography – The poster contains some iconic
elements especially within the image of the CD
cover, which relate to the old fashioned fairy-
tale and children’s story theme which is going on
within the album cover the poster is advertising
for, as through the flowers, birds and butterflies
and general style connote towards the theme.
This is additionally is shown through the cartoon
like font both advertising the band themselves
as well as the album title, which is surrounded
by a banner giving the album a fairy-tale feel, as
well as the gold border surrounding the poster
gives the design a more vintage look.
Design Principle – The poster corresponds to the
Guttenberg principle in relation to the way in
which certain elements are positioned and
placed. The band’s name is placed in a very large
and unique font style in the primary optical area
of the poster, so the audience understand
straight away who is being advertised. The
image of the front of the album cover is
prominent in the centre of the poster, leaving all
of the textual information aspects such as
release dates in the weak fallow and terminal
area at the bottom of the poster.
Lily Wilkinson
Panic at the Disco Poster Analysis