Week 4 session 1

In today's class, we discussed the idea of a concept for our posters. One concept but 2 ideas using the same concept.

my concept: the idea of using children games or games in general ( not gambling) as a simile with child poverty. ( material depravation). 

Feed back on Pick up stick poster: 

- Try and change the point of view of my poster. ( in the current one, i am speaking as a designer). 

what about a child's point of view ? 

a mother?

the governement?

- think about hierachy of things. ( we read from left to right) + sizing to enhance visual flow

( too much writting at the moment,  be succinct, a little redundency is acceptable if used well with imagery) ( the text has to be readable from a distance)

- try out different ways of representing the pick up stick game. 

- think about other ways to represents stats, charts, pie graphs,... 

- using same concept find a different style to approach the matter with : 

- all typographic?

- illustrated

- photographic?

-other? ( brainstorm and find visual precedents)

- different types ? ( flat types, different typefaces, what other differents types of types are there ? look into it ) 

- consider visual cues. ( tangibles and untangibles)

For my Pick up stick poster I want to use bright colours ( the primary colours) to symbolise the lack of basics but also to shock my viewers, the colours are going to be so bright that you have to look at them, you can't look away, in the street your eyes would be drawn to it. i also want to use contrasting coloours and a very graphic style, with quite neat harsh lines to add to that shock factor, quite brutal and out there. 

tonight i will investigates a few variations of my pick up sticks posters and identify the second visual style i will be using for my second poster.