Poster Design

For my poster design I disregarded the previous collage that I had done and decided to focus on the simple shapes and colours that are used by the designers. I quickly took a design from each designer, traced a shape (sticking to the most basic) and colour picked a colour from the design. This resulted in 6 layered blocks of colour, that with the multiply layer blend mode applied, overlaid one another to produce sections of darker hues. Although the colours popped, this image looked flat on the screen and needed to be replicated physically. I like the transparency of my design and so chose newsprint to work with as it has that slightly transparent quality and off-white colour. I scanned each shape onto the newsprint repeatedly until each layer was showing, once without trying to attain nice placement, and once whilst positioning them to have a better layout. I put both of the designs next to each other and saw my final poster in landscape. Both of the layered up designs seemed to work so well when next to one another - and so I made this my final poster design, although incredibly abstract.

I learnt a great deal from this process about how I will produce my final publication. through making mistakes, I learnt that in this case less is more! When combining imagery from 5/6 designers you can not perfectly replicate each one. Chose your favourite parts and get on with the layout of the publication itself. For example, the elements that I chose for this poster were simple, but that gave me more freedom to play around with my own design and what I did with them.