this is my first design
Tuesday, 1 December 2009
Poster design notes
We each had to design a poster for our drive time project. At the start of the lesson we discussed whether we should all make posters about the topics we had to research or if we should all create a poster with the same general topic. We had a vote and it was decided that we would all create a poster with the same general design.
The next thing we had to vote on was what the slogan can be. We all came up with ideas and wrote them on the board. As there were quite a lot of ideas we had a class vote on which slogan should be chosen. After the voting we were left with two slogans with the same amount of votes: “It’s not a game” and “You’re dead”. This led to a discussion about which should be picked and it was decided that they should be joined together and make: “It’s not a game, you’re dead”.
The first thing I decided to do when designing my poster was to pick a background colour. This took me a bit of time because I couldn’t decide on the right colour; I had a look through many swatches of colours to find the right colour. I settled with an all black background. I decided to use this because black brings out the other colours on the poster much better than other colours could. I wanted to have the background completely the same colour because with more than one colour it might become overwhelming or just not look nice. The poster looking nice is a key factor because if it doesn’t then people probably won’t look at it and as it is a poster, people looking at it is the whole point.
The next thing that I had to do for my poster was to start designing the text on it. As the slogan was split into two parts I decided to put “It’s not a game” along the top of the poster and “You’re dead” along the bottom. I liked this idea because it left a lot of space for images and other text to be added to the poster easily and quickly. I decided to have the text style set to: Arial Rounded MT Bold. I decided to have the font a blood red colour. I thought that this would be a good colour to use because it would draw people’s attention to the poster as the red gets brought out by the black background.
The next stage I decided to do was to look on the internet for a picture of a crash to show the effects of dangerous driving. This took me quite a long time because there weren’t many pictures that I liked enough. I searched many different things into Google, things like: car crashes, crashes, head on collisions, car collisions and serious crashes. I finally found the picture after around 30minutes. I was slightly annoyed that it took me this long but I was happy to finally find a decent picture.
I’m not delighted with my poster at this stage but it’s only the initial design and there is a lot of room for changing it. Below is the first design of my poster
The next thing we had to vote on was what the slogan can be. We all came up with ideas and wrote them on the board. As there were quite a lot of ideas we had a class vote on which slogan should be chosen. After the voting we were left with two slogans with the same amount of votes: “It’s not a game” and “You’re dead”. This led to a discussion about which should be picked and it was decided that they should be joined together and make: “It’s not a game, you’re dead”.
The first thing I decided to do when designing my poster was to pick a background colour. This took me a bit of time because I couldn’t decide on the right colour; I had a look through many swatches of colours to find the right colour. I settled with an all black background. I decided to use this because black brings out the other colours on the poster much better than other colours could. I wanted to have the background completely the same colour because with more than one colour it might become overwhelming or just not look nice. The poster looking nice is a key factor because if it doesn’t then people probably won’t look at it and as it is a poster, people looking at it is the whole point.
The next thing that I had to do for my poster was to start designing the text on it. As the slogan was split into two parts I decided to put “It’s not a game” along the top of the poster and “You’re dead” along the bottom. I liked this idea because it left a lot of space for images and other text to be added to the poster easily and quickly. I decided to have the text style set to: Arial Rounded MT Bold. I decided to have the font a blood red colour. I thought that this would be a good colour to use because it would draw people’s attention to the poster as the red gets brought out by the black background.
The next stage I decided to do was to look on the internet for a picture of a crash to show the effects of dangerous driving. This took me quite a long time because there weren’t many pictures that I liked enough. I searched many different things into Google, things like: car crashes, crashes, head on collisions, car collisions and serious crashes. I finally found the picture after around 30minutes. I was slightly annoyed that it took me this long but I was happy to finally find a decent picture.
I’m not delighted with my poster at this stage but it’s only the initial design and there is a lot of room for changing it. Below is the first design of my poster
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