Final Evaluation

I have produced an A3 typographic poster with elements of my typeface that I created in part one of the brief.
My initial idea behind my poster design was to make it bright; I decided this because my theme is Urban, and if I was asked to describe something Urban I would say bright colours would be used because such things come under the topic of Urban such as; cities, nightlife, dancing, graffiti, music etc.. All of which, in my opinion portray an image of bright, colourful, energetic, busy colours.
I used Illustrator to create my poster design, I did this because I wanted to create a unique image that would bring my poster to life.
I researched Banksy as a part of inspiration for my poster design, I did this because he is a graffiti artist and the spray paint they use inspired me to choose bright colours to use on my poster.
I decided to use neon colours so they would really stand out, I chose to have a black background and have a bold firework like shape in the top corner in neon pink so it stood out really clearly, I then put my letter "e" from my typeface onto the poster in the centre of the firework style shape so it looked like it was bursting out. For the rest of the poster I decided to keep it simple because I didn't want to overcrowd it. So i simply used the same colour scheme to write the name of my font and the call to action.

Final Poster

After I had analysed the final two posters I came to a decision as to which should be my final piece..
I thought the second of the two was the stronger poster as it was eye-catching and bold. Here is my final poster design! ..

Final Two

I then decided to digitise two of my three larger poster designs to see which one would be the final piece. Here are the two digitised posters...

Larger Layouts

I decided to make larger versions of some layouts that I was considering for my final poster. I decided to choose a range of poster designs so I chose two with no grid structure and one with.
Here are my larger layout designs...


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Research & Response Continued

After I'd completed several sheets of research and response work I picked out a few of my favourite layouts I'd designed and developed them further, I also added colour to some layouts to see what they would look like. Here are some layout sheets of my further developed designs...

Research & Response

We carried out research by looking on the Internet and in the Library to find pictures of typographic posters. We then took these posters and responded to them numerous times to give us plenty of ideas for our poster design. Here is a selection of my research and response sheets...

Positioning

We created quick sketches in our sketchbooks of grids and positioned where the text would go to see what looked good and what didn't so that we could use this to choose what our posters' grid would look like; that's if we wanted a grid, not all posters have to have a grid structure...