Friday, 9 November 2012

Crit Changes


Fairly minor changes were made to my Triedler inspired poster design following the Crit. The most notable was the addition of a rough border after someone noted that the poster I used for my colour scheme had a border in which the statue of liberty torch hangs over:


I thought this added much more depth to the design so I mirrored in by having the arms hang over it. Another change I made was to add a slight gradient shading to the sleeves of the suits because someone said they though it looked to plain with such a large block of single colour. The left had was also made slightly darker because people seemed to agree that it was too pale.


This poster had the most dramatic change from its previous version. Just before the Crit I noticed that most of the posters I came across in my research were portrait oriention, which I though was more appropriate for its use. In the Crit, most people agreed that this gave the poster a lot more impact and a striking visual appeal. The design was adapted accordingly, with the text being split onto 2 lines to make it fit:

 I think the portrait orientation was definitely the way to go as it allows much more space for the main slogan and it complies more closely to the visual style of the period. The texture of the poster was also increased to make the worn look a bit more obvious. I then decided to slightly change the reflection in the glasses to make it have a less comic-book style to it:
                                              Before:                                                      After: