Rationale

My poster communicates a warning that what you say on social media could be hurtful to yourself or others. I have used a soft colour palette, not only to reference twitter, but also to convey the message of being nice to others. The pop of strong colour on the text makes the poster not so dull and compliments the blues that I have used. The style that I have used references an online environment because of the vector shapes, while keeping the poster soft and nice. I have used the text to create movement and draw the viewers eye from the bird down to the shoulder. I have used the rhetoric technique of pastiche in turning people's tweets into a result of a real life twitter bird. My work is impactful with a soft style, to get the reaction of people stopping to think about what they say online.

Colour and impact

The new font that i am using is quite solid and black, which does no favours for the poster being bland. so I thought a contrasting colour would really make the whole poster pop.

                      

6.2 19/8

Last session in class. working on making my poster bolder and more impactful. Also, drawing the eye from the bird to the shoulder to make the connection at a glance.

I used type to draw the eye down through the poster

taking a look back at style, I need to look at type and font to enhance my poster and make it pop visually:

6.1 18/8 INTERIM 2

Group critique:
Putting my two posters on the wall, it was quite obvious that my poster has very low impact. I need to make my poster strong and impactful while still keeping the style that is working well.
I started experimenting with stronger colours and lessening the text and making it less redundant.

And also simplifying the text and creating impact with the imagery. Having a clear relationship with the two separate images is important.

I was also thinking about whether the twitter bird should be cropped or full, i'm not sure whether the connection is stronger with the full bird.

5.2 12/8

Tutor feedback

• The sketched style is working well with the tone of my poster.
• I need to work on the composition
• Go back to FADPs
• Scale, contrast, visual flow.

Brainstorming new compositions:

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Implementing good compositions:

Other Styles that i have been trying out - 15/8

Artist: Julian May

Australia

His work:

applied to my poster:

Vector/black background:

 Pixel  vs. real style:

minimal

5.1 11/8

Over the week

• Over the week I really started to develop my idea and try different styles, I tried the style that i had originally wanted, a vector style
  

And I also tried a more drawn/handwritten style.

                                                                  

And I experimented with words and how I could incorporate them into the image.

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Shared moment with Fashion students

• We went to visit the fashion students to see how they are interpreting the Ihi Wehi brief. It was pretty interesting to see all their creations, and good to see what other students are doing around the university.
• They came to see our posters and I got some good reactions from people, they seemed to immediately understand my poster.

Studio time

• In studio time I just developed my existing poster concept into a more interesting concept, I included a person or part of a person to get across that what people say online does affect others.
• I tried out some new poster styles, I was having trouble to come up with styles that I could try, the poster that i completed in class was a more sketched style. 

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