Poster Pondering

Apparently this is a successful poster both visually and conceptually, so I think I will leave it alone except for a spacing tweak on the tag line. I would agree with the assessments as to its strengths, and now I will print it out on fancy paper and call this project done.

It was interesting to me that essentially the same message played well visually but not conceptually on this one, so I guess it will end up scrapped. Too bad. I thought it was pretty cool.

In terms of the rest of the posters and what I learned from them, I think it was helpful to see what people responded to.

The creative process for the poster was similar to writing in terms of starting from scratch in terms of deciding what was most important to convey, and then how to arrange it on the paper. I had a longer message that I edited down to say what needed to be said in a short, effective, visually appealing way.  I thought about my audience - which is how I ended up with the #2 pencils, as well as the terminology I used. I revised it a lot, just like writing drafts.

It was different from the writing process because I thought in pictures first. I started with the graphics - the idea of battling soldiers - and adapted my text to fit the concept. The revising process was far more about colors, fonts and layout than the content of the text - although I certainly wanted to convey my message. But to me the most important aspect was eye-catching visuals, so the process evolved from that perspective.