Initial ideas - typography posters

I can’t decide what to do for my final piece as of yet as none of the presentations or people we have looked at haven’t fully inspired me to commit to one style of poster design. At this moment in time I just know what I like and what I dislike in terms of poster designs

These are the first initial ideas I have done for a typography exhibition at the design museum. Doing this allowed me to explore my different ideas for poster ideas in general and I had more freedom to create what I want because it is typography based

Poster 1 – I like this one because I think it is a little twist on Saul bass with the simple design and the trio of colours used. The text is quite messy which I have drawn from grunge style (messy yet readable). I think as a print out this would look interesting because it is cut off at the edges. This print employs the idea of layering and isn’t too strict with its framing.

Poster 2 – I like this one because it makes sense. As this poster would be about the history of typography, it made sense to use a timeline format. It is still very bland and I think that’s why I got bored of it there are elements of it that I do like, such as the timeline itself and playing around with the texture and style as well as the font of “typography” and using different fonts to create that

Poster 3 – this poster is incomplete because I had no idea with where to go with it. I experimented a little with the brush style and I do like it but I think it is better off on a t shirt or something where you could feel the texture of that find

Poster 4 – it is very much complete but I really don’t like this design. I think it is very generic, bit samey and it’s not the direction I wanted to go in but playing around with the opacity of colours was cool and I may look into doing that a bit more. This employs the idea of layering, figure and ground in the background image.

Poster 5 – this poster is very much inspired by wim crouwels’ calendar designs where the dissection of letters supposedly makes it unreadable, it is actually readable.

I started with a shade variation of the colour purple (again playing with opacity) and resorted to this. This was really difficult to do and I found it quite challenging and used a combination of illustrator and Photoshop to achieve the final outcome. Although I don’t love the final outcome, it’s one of the better ones probably.