Sunday 7 November 2010

NO NEWS IS GOOD NEWS: Poster Design

Original Type Poster Design:

After looking over the brief again I decided this wasn't quite working. Firstly the chosen fact itself, "25 percent of beauty advertisements are fake", wasn't specific enough to the article. Also, although I was quite happy with the layout, the message needed to be more clear and this composition didn't really help...





Development:
New Fact - Advertising campaigns use airbrushing techniques to portray unattainable perfection". Alot more appropriate and down to the point. 




Using a skin tone, foundation-like colour to display the subject. Also contrasting the chalk-like type with helvetica... to show the change to perfection!


#2: As a series/set of posters, although they all link, I felt it was a bit too obvious. As in the type & the image were simply combined to make the type & image poster rather then being individual...


New ideas for image poster & image with type poster:

Here I wanted to dramatise airbrushing, perfection etc..


... compared to inperfection:


As a FINAL set: