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.

                      

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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3.2 29/7

6 hats
The 6 hats exercise gave us a tool to think from different perspectives.
I was in the white hat group, which had to talk about sugar-free jellybeans in a neutral factual way.
Our group was pretty quiet and we didn't talk much so I don't feel like I gained much from this exercise, but i brainstormed some ideas to do with my own topic and i will definitely carry on with this when i get stuck later on in the week.

Studio time
In studio time I determined about 4 ideas that I will work on and develop over the week until critique. I have the "window to connection", the "social experiment", the "twitter shit", the "be someone new", and the"school of fish".

3.1 28/7

Making the familiar unfamiliar examples

critique
Me and my partner went through our ideas and chose some that stood out and gave each other our thoughts on each of them.
notes:

Word + image
I think word and image will be one of the most challenging parts of the posters for me, coming up with snappy tag-lines is quite difficult for me.

Some examples:
"What's behind the cell phone?"
"Our children are consumed by media."
"Keep your shitty thoughts to yourself."
"Shitty thoughts."
"I don't need to know."
"Social Bubble."
"Erase the social bubble."
"Be someone new."
"Be your best self."
"Window to a community."
"Connect."
"Interact."
"Enter the freedom."





Random input

I found the random input exercise really helpful, it really got me thinking of different ideas. I think i have a good idea that came from a water tap. I got the word "filter" and thought of facebook filtering people's new feeds, i had heard of this before but decided to look into it and found it pretty interesting.

http://www.businessinsider.com.au/blogger-facebook-newsfeed-2014-1