Week 6

Whacked up brightness on poster 1, tidied up some detail on the ring (and remembered that it should have 4 white stripes lol), settled on a font and made it brighter so it would stand out. Test printed and then tidied up a little of the darkness and dropped the brightness of the ring back down as it was too bright and lost detail (although I kept the rest of the image lighter).

Rewrote text on poster 2, making it slightly thicker and increasing the gap between 'minimum' and 'wage' (as suggested), hopefully making it more legible. I lightened up the centre to push that focal point with the boat, and swapped the colour of text around (was originally red with cream outlines, now cream with red outline). Brightened up the sharks and redid the text on them too, and added an outline to the boat to hopefully make it stand out more.

Week 6

Painted up the waves for more detail, increased the darkness below, lifted the image so that the surface was a smaller part of the image to increase the ominous tone. Dropped the text below so that it would stand out, then played around a bit with the different fonts I could use. I'm happy with the tag line, but not sure what works best for the rest.

Lecturer suggests picking something simple to contrast with the illustration rather than trying to match it. Also up the text brightness so it stands out, and up the brightness in general because it prints out very dark which stops it being eye catching and makes stuff hard to immediately recognise.

Week 5

Development of poster. I flipped a shark like suggested, and changed the ring to a tiny row boat. I wanted to make the view from below but have trouble communicating that. I hand wrote the text to see if I could make it distressful by being scribbly and make it blend with the image style, and outlined it so that it would stand out. Then I flipped things horizontally because I felt it would read better than way and flow from top left to bottom right. Added more water motion lines. I got rid of the texture because that wasn't working, played around with colours a bit and ended up putting a halftone pattern in (looks better in real size) as I felt it added a bit of detail that was missing due to the block shapes. I wanted it to be more simple than my other poster though in terms of illustration.

Week 5

Some poster research, looking at visual style rather than rhetoric message. I was mostly looking for things using simple silhouettes, text/type with a hand written feel, and stuff relating to water. These are some of my favourite examples. High contrast is the easiest way to make it stand out, I particularly like red and blue as it is very striking, and I think I can use it to make my sharks stand out more and be more ominous. I'm also going to give a shot and hand drawing the text and try out that style.

Week 5 (interim 2)

Two posters I brought in for crit. The feedback was that the first is far more successful, although I might look at rearranging the type/fonts. The other had quite a negative response.

The font doesn't work at all, the tag line isn't prominent enough, one of the sharks should curve the other way for better flow, try repeating lettering in sharks... Also look at colour and tone as it lacks the ominous feel that is supposed to be connotated (which is successful in the other due to the darkness below). Redo water lines.

Lecturer suggested replacing the ring with a row boat to play with scale a bit, and also make sure it isn't too similar to the other design. She also thought the style of the first is perhaps too messy and makes it look incomplete.

Week 4

These two I brought in for class. Feedback suggests that the first is the more successful concept. It communicates easily, the text makes sense and the danger to the swimmer plays on pathos. The problem with the secondary one is that although it also uses pathos, the setting in the home confuses things by taking it away from the issue. A suggestion was to set it in a workplace instead, but I feel that I'd rather develop the first idea into two different posters.

Week 3 pt.2

Missed last class unfortunately. Here's a bit more of me experimenting with ideas though. It's all pretty rough but I'm trying to worry more about concept, as I think it's best not to waste hours drawing something up really pretty if I then decide to scrap it. There's a couple with the burger idea but I was having trouble with that, so I started thinking back to water/drowning again and what I could do with that.


Bonus John Key photoshopped onto a dragon I drew (I know it's stupid):