222.258 Design Studio IIB Visual Communication
Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Week Six: Final Posters and Rationale
Rationale
Thursday, August 17, 2017
Week Five: Rationale Draft
Notes from Lecture
Aim: Elaborate the issue and put it into context.
Concept: Why is this a problem? Importance, relevance and potential outcomes.
Strategy: Method of presentation, detailed description of what you did.
Rationale Draft
Aim: Elaborate the issue and put it into context.
Concept: Why is this a problem? Importance, relevance and potential outcomes.
Strategy: Method of presentation, detailed description of what you did.
Rationale Draft
This poster set
aims to raise awareness about the increasing number of New Zealanders that are
homeless, specifically focusing on the large number of people living in cars.
The ‘Home Sweet
Home’ carpark poster uses contrast as the poster is primarily black and white
but with brightly coloured text. I have chosen to colour the text in this way
to make it resemble the yellow road lines. Also the text introduces an element
of bright colour that helps to make the poster stand out. This poster has an
interesting hierarchy as the first element I wanted the viewer to see is the
“Home Sweet Home,” however the fact that the text is bright yellow meant that
it was difficult to ensure, however, I achieved this by placing the text
sideways. To make this poster I used physical techniques by drawing out the car
park out likes and text onto concrete using chalk, this gave the poster a
greater sense of feeling allowing the audience to connect with it more rather
than simply using vector lines.
For my second
poster I have created a (parody, irony or satire?) of the Harcourts for sale
signs. For this poster I have used the
colour scheme of the Harcourts posters but altered the blue slightly to ensure
that the poster will stand out. As this design is created using the style of for
sale posters it has a clear visual hierarchy, first the eye is drawn to the
image as it is the largest element and then in accordance with a western world
view the poster is read left to right top to bottom. Again due to the design
this poster does not incorporate a sense of movement. This poster is not symmetrical
but due to the clear style, elements such as the blue and grey lines that cross
the entire page and the image layout it is balanced. This design works off a
2:3 ratio with two thirds of the poster as text and one third as an image.
Thursday, August 10, 2017
Week Four: Photographs
Week Four: Concept Development
At the beginning of class week four I showed the first two concepts, the main feedback was that the designs should both be portrait as very few posters are designed in landscape. I then continued the development of my designs and tried some different compositions for the car park one. The last two concepts are the most developed from this selection.
Week Three: Research
To help with my design I have looked at some New Zealand real-estate companies For Sale Signs. I would like to continue my design by creating a parody of one of the signs.
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Possible sayings, facts or statistics for poster: 64% of all homeless people are Maori, Pacific or from other minority groups 52% of all h...
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Notes from Lecture Aim: Elaborate the issue and put it into context. Concept: Why is this a problem? Importance, relevance and potential o...