P.I. Speed poster

 

1 hour exercise in class today. We had to create a black/white personal identity poster using an image of ourselves. It was good to get see what we could come up with on the spot.

T.S. and P.R. Refinement

 

Refinements for both posters, 1 and 2.The overall look is flat and simplified, emphasising the 'form follows function' philosophy. I will move onto the third and final poster now, and depending on how it turns out, the previous posters may be further developed.

P.R. Refinement 05

P.R. Refinement 04

T.S. Refinement 02

P.R. Refinement 03

P.R. Concept 08

 

Jan Tschichold 

T.S. Refinement 01

Developing type specimen to work in a similar grid to the personal response.

P.R. Refinement 02

P.R. Refinement 01

P.R. Concept 07

Oops, one too many colours used here.

P.R. Concept 06

P.R. Concept 05

 

Less is more.

P.R. Concept 04

Feedback: consider spacing in margins and kerning between letters, place text into columns for visual buzz.

P.R. Concept 03

1930s Poster

Part of the permanent collection of the Museo de Bellas Artes in Bilbao. Displayed during the excellent 2009 exhibit Novecentismo y Vanguardia (1910-1936).

 Lignes Farman

Woman in a bathing suit drinking wine.

Most of the posters have a flat composition with geometric shapes and bright, bold colours. Widely used for propaganda and advertisements.

P.R. Concept 02

 No. Get rid of pointless space filler.

P.R. Concept 01

The second poster in the series must be a personal response on the quality of my selected type face. I've gone for the idea that "form follows function" as Neuzeit Grotesk was originally used for signage and traffic directional systems. The font is timeless and has no distinguishing features.

Exploring compositions and introducing elements of shapes and colour will come into effect here. Also, a grid system which links to the 1st poster must be developed.

This first concept is still quite formal - I have the opportunity to add more dynamics here which I will experiment with next.

T.S. Concept 12

T.S. Concept 11

More experimentation. Realised my previous concepts were more or less the same ideas and limited to horizontals and verticals. Also playing around with individual letters and using them as focal points. 

Feedback: Bottom right corner is too busy, could move text to left corner... play around with shapes in 'Neuzeit Grotesk'.