Poster Editing

I explored some colours for the poster today. Decided to use one of the ash marks because the texture is beautiful. I realised that the original work looks stronger and has more impact compared to the scanned version, but it can't be helped.

Scanned version and inverted it. Tested it in blue spot colour (B for Blue). Didn't like how it turned out.

It's a bit hard to show progress digitally cause I don't tend to save the older versions. But here are my reflections.

I didn't want to edit the poster too much because Sarah mentioned the simple ones have the best impact. So I just settled with placing it on a black background. It looks quite amazing as is anyway. Almost looks like it's done digitally, save for the smudge marks (in a way that helped to add to the authenticity!)

I used Futura here because it's a nice, clean font that goes well with the organic-ness of the letterform. I feel like because my text is worded like a story, it's not like it will be a chunk of 'paragraph' text like how Walter described in the workshops. Anyway, I created some columns to guide the placement of the text. I also followed the Point size x 2 = X Pica paragraph width rule taught to us in class.

You can see that I tried to play with the hierarchy of type to make it more dynamic, but eventually decided to fall back to a simpler approach. After all, basics are the most important.

The final poster.