Final Change 1 Thing

It's done! Below is actually my revisions for last Monday.

And here's the one I actually submitted as my final poster.
I learned a lot from this project. It was a good practice in poster design and I need think about how to convey a message visually. This was a hard fact to depict because there is so much information and to arrange in a way that made sense but not overpowering was hard to balance. I'm satisfied with the end result since it definitely has improved from my first ideas.

Revisions for 2.12

Kids are put back in. Except this time, they are more iconic looking. Anywho, these are "final" revisions. I put tons of icons of email, twitter, and facebook so that it creates more of a pattern and less recognizable from far away. I also kept type the same except now it is Avenir instead of Futura. Um...yah.

I think imma print and tile this lower one because the messaging is more direct with the all caps.

Revisions for 2.08

On these, I tried to create an urgency in the topic because Steve said that the element of urgency is missing in it, especially with what happened in Haiti. So I increased the size and change colors. I also messed with other fonts and decided that san serifs suits this theme better.

Revisions for 2.05

These were the posters I made for Friday's critique.

Based on critique in our very short class, I made this for the critique with Steve Frykholm.

During his critique, he said how it talks more about technology more than world hunger and you don't see what it is actually about until you get closer, so those are the things I need to work on.

Design Process

After reading this section from Type & Image by Phillip Meggs, it really shows that iterations and the thinking process is important in a design. I found it super helpful and it makes me rethink my poster and how I should attack it. Having multiple examples in the article also helped a lot because I'm more of a visual person so seeing it in action made it more real. The chart on page 9 was funny but also serious. It showed how much work is needed and what everyone goes through. Overall, this was a good read even though it was longer than most readings assigned.

Text. Image. Message

I really enjoyed this article. It taught me a lot about using text. I somehow always thought that text should just be there kinda thing, but now it can be combined with image and I can play with it to make it more interesting. The ideas of separation, fusion, fragmentation, and inversion helped me make my 3 posters more interesting than it was originally. At first, it was just text and a picture. After I read the article, I changed things around and now I feel like it's not as boring anymore. I love all the methods but for my theme, it seems like some of the ideas would work better than others. For one, I think separation or fusion would be the best choices so that's what I stuck with.

World Hunger

Out of my 3 topics, I felt more passionate about world hunger than the other topics. I felt like the others already had enough coverage and world hunger is something that people overlook and they don't know much about it. Therefore, I only did thumbnails for this topic.

I definitely need to work on my sketching ideas but this is the best way I can express my ideas. People won't understand it unless I explain it so this is something I need to improve on. Below are my 3 different directions for the poster.


I wanted to stick to something simple to show off the seriousness of this problem, kind making it a juxtaposition :D? Maybe it's too simple? I'm not sure. I'm liking the direction of the first one with the bowl and the last one with the kids. I can definitely push those more and they aren't perfect right now so we shall see.

Project 1: Change one thing

-sigh- School started again and the first assignment received? Type. Project 1 is to make a poster for AIGA under the theme of "Change One Thing". After thinking for a while, I still had no idea what to do. So I thought about what do I have a passion for. Many of what I care about and want to change deals with the world and I have limited my ideas to racial discrimination, world hunger/poverty, and AIDS awareness. I feel like all of these ideas would make good posters and even though they are things that aren't easily changed and people have attempted, they are still things that could be improved. I'm leaning towards world hunger/poverty since that is something people might not be fully aware of but there's tons of statistics that are shocking. My second choice would be to do racial discrimination. I haven't thought of how to approach that yet but I bet it'll be interesting. So for now, off to brainstorm.