Indesign Task 2- Poster

A3 Poster Three — Interpret

Create a poster (in the space on the right) based on the design work, style or approach of a designer you like or are interested in. Your design should not copy an existing poster from your chosen designer, but capture the essence of, or a particular feeling. You need to digest and interpret the designer's work in a unique creation of your own.

Your poster must include the following:

color experiments

• Designers name.
• Full uppercase alphabet.
• Full lowercase alphabet.
• Numerals and glyphs.
• Years active.
• A short paragraph about why you have chosen your
• particular designer, what is it about them you find
• compelling or explain why you wanted to try and
• understand more about their approach.

We  had to consider a short research of our chosen designers, key information. Furthermore
Call out the characteristics that make up the visual
language of your chosen designer. Do they use a particular colour pallet? Any specific typefaces used? Do they structure their work in a particular way? Is it hand-drawn, physically made?

I chose the 40's for its interesting duality. In the first half of the decade, most of World War II took place, which had a profound effect on most countries and people in Europe, and Asia  The consequences of the war lingered well into the second half of the decade, with a war-weary Europe divided between the jostling spheres of influence of the Western world and the Soviet Union, leading to the beginning of the Cold War.

However the people's spirit lived on, enjoying what was left of their daily routine and hobbies. They singed, painted and danced between their break of labor and pistols assembling.

As the brief demanded there should be a full upper case alphabet, a lower case one, numbers, signs, designer names and the reason we chose this artists. As this example did not presented everything they asked from us I kept it for myself and I finished another one with all the demanded elements, however I still prefer the former one.

I felt like the first variant was more representative for the theme ''40's but after looking more at them I decided to pick a simpler, clearer variant. When I developed it further I noticed how the poster got crowded and it was harder to read all the information so I stick with a subtle approach.

I used Aria black, a basic typeface as I didn't wish to explore fonts as much for this one.

final poster:

A3 Poster Four — Wilson's Republic 6

Brief:
A poster to advertise “Wilson's Republic 6: ”; a design network for Huddersfield. The audience for this are very design literate, and you need to attract them whilst also creating something that fits within the style of the previous event posters.
The overall theme for the evening and talks is:
"Resilience".
13th April 2017
6.00pm — late
Bates Mill, Milford Street, Huddersfield
HD1 3DX
A Design Network for Huddersfield
www.wilsonsrepublic.com
@wilsonsrepublic
#WR6
Christopher Nunn
Lord Whitney
James Sommerville
The ruls we had to respect were: that we need to include the WR logotype and pipe marque, adopt the WR colours, only use Red, Black and Whit but we could  also use tints and halftone
patterns of those colours.

Wilson's Republic is series of social events where the Huddersfield design community can tell their stories, share their experiences, collaborate, question, learn and create. 

We will feature all types of design discipline - product, graphic, digital, web, service, interior, photography, architecture, creative arts, print.

Experiments and development:

Final poster:

I chose this particular design for the end poster as it respected all the rules, even if I had fun playing with hand photography unaltered and a larger color balance. However from what I noticed at Wilson's republic poster is their tendency of not using typography almost at all in their poster. There were no title in any of the examples Nolan gave to us and they have a particular style to it. 

Process and Concept

I drawing the little veins by hand with a graphic tablet and I left the human silhouette standing on them, as they behaved as a support. The hand are pointing towards the central diamond in order to center the image and help with the balance of elements. I wanted them to almost guide the viewer attention  toward the main shape.

The human silhouette is walking on an unclear border between the sky (cloud) and the ground as a metaphor for the fine line that helps you overcome problems and resilience.

One of the hand is holding a human, putting it back on track meanwhile the other silhouettes are representing parts of the daily life, business, social interaction, friends and so on. 

Moreover there is a island picking up from the diamond, making an allusion to the ''island of redemption''