I was sorting some photos at the weekend and thought these might be of interest.
The customer was one of the guys in the picture, his call during the race was a major factor in them winning the Le Mans 24 Hours. He wanted a number of details including in the mount to help tell the story. Audi made a film of the race and the artwork is in the style of a film poster.
Three cars were entered and to help identify them on track they were given three highlight colours on various parts of the car, red, yellow or black, the colours of the German flag, hence the four layered mount with the a white one on top, the red and yellow mounts were cut with a reverse bevel to give the flag effect. The bevel was included on the black mount to give the image a stronger more dominant outline.
The call that was made, was to change to wet tyres, in the event a lap before the leading car, there then followed a ‘heated’ discussion with the driver who was on a very dry track at the time. The customer asked if a number of quotes from the conversation could be included. I looked at different options and ended up cutting out a copy of the track and including the quotes where they took place on track as well as including some in the outer mount surround.
The photos should give an idea of my design process, also under the bench in one of the pictures you can see the board that the letters and numbers were cut from. The first picture shows the basic mount without the extra bits. I tried lots of different layouts before settling on the final one.
The film Truth in 24, Le Mans 2008 is still available on YouTube if anyone is interested.
David.