Final poster images

Bit of a late post! Just some finalised photos of my poster on the wall, I intend on printed them onto a higher quality paper to give it a proffesional appearance.

Net idea.

This is just a quick template design I produced, with the thought of, in each of the squares, I will print onto acetate, the sequence of my declining crosses, and as it opens, the sequence would be revealed. I'm not quite there with colour yet!

No news is good news, over view after the crit.

In reference to the black, green and white final designs :

After the crit, I found there was a few adjustments I could make to make the fact within my designs speak for itself. One problem, I personally identified was the designs were all too similiar, another adjustment needed, after the crit was colour choice. Some people stated that the colours were in no relation to Christianity, also I had used more than the required number of colours; there were two different greens used, unknown to my eye but were apparent within the final printed pieces. So with all of this in mind, I re-designed each final piece.

This is a completely new design as my previous ones were too similar. I've used the symbol of the 'i' to show a decline in the religion, this with the use of a timeline, in context makes sense. I've used bible like colours; sepia tones. I've created continuity by using a white border box which is used within each of my designs. I've also used the same type, but resized it so it isn't the focal point of the design.

With this designs I have tried to make the 'i' a symbol, which is then seen throughout images used in other designs.

I've used the symbol 'i' to create a dissapearing cross; a symbol of christianity, which is meant to re-create brick work - Churches are renowned to be made from it. Throughout all of my designs I have used symbols which reference the religion, in relation to the place of worship.

Final designs - All over again!

3 final designs

Final designs and a A few initial poster designs

Final Poster Designs

I'm not too sure if I like my final designs or not! Well, there's always going to be room for improvement but I guess once I have my crit, and gain some opinions and see what I think! I really liked this project, it was in no way restricted to what you could do! I must admit, I found finding time to do this project very difficult considering I had so much else going on at university, so it was a challenge.

Image Only: I'm glad the posters have to work as a series otherwise this poster wouldn't work on it's own! I like it, but feel it needs to be clearer what it's insinuating (A cross in relation to christianity), perhaps straightening the arms of the tree would make it look more cross like, and possibly, as part of the sequence, i could have more leaves falling from it, and eventually browning.

Combination of image and type: Not too sure about this one, I feel the image needs to be a lot more simplistic for it to work with the text, or it needs to be smaller, using a smaller space than the letters, it just makes the design too complicated.

Text only: I really like this. The simplicity does it i think. It's a pretty clear message. Improvements which could be made is regarding colour pallette I think, or maybe using some lovely decorative bible like corners and borders, or maybe even the text, but thats a whole different kettle of fish.

Just a quick whip up

I really like the illustration here and wish i'd put it to better use. I may think about using it in a final design or something, we shall see...

Just a few quick initial designs!

Initially I really like this concept, but when I realised I had to include the entire headline, I felt it took the simplistic affect needed. I wanted to just use the word decline, but this, in no context wasn't understandable. But I wanted to stick to the font chosen within the centre. The colour palette was a VERY bad choice, black and red isn't something you link with religion and could give the wrong impression, so I decided it was best to stay well away from these two colours together!

This I do like, its colour palette relates to the church, and a hint of biblical serif font has been used. The overall idea was for the font to create a cross, which this design has achieved. I think if I edit this image some more and played around a bit, it could work really well.

This was a very quick mock up. Attempted to create cross with type, but overall don't feel this pieces connotes the idea of christianity declining.

This was an improvement from an above design, but change to colour palette is a need.

A few initial design sheets drawn up

No news is good news. Message and interpretation. The brief!

After all that research, we finally got the brief for it. Before we got this, we had to do an exercise in which we had to write a fact and an opinion in relation to our chosen article. The fact would then be the basis for the brief. Mine was: Christianity in decline according to polls.

For this brief we have to create 3 posters, one containing just image, another just type, and another the combination of the two using a limited 3 colours including stock. In which they must be visually consistant, be simple and to keep it to the point. Only got a week to do it, so better get to!

Alphabet soup. Take Two!

Ok, so we've had an extended deadline. Basically what we gained from the crit, we were to take into the design process to try and complete our typefaces. Based On what I was told, Heres the plan:

• To find a serif typeface in order to depict where the serifs are.
• For each serif ( in order to give logic to my curls) I will be designing a certain curl for each type to make it consistant throughout my designs.
• I am going to produce my typeface in lower case to make it more legible.
• I am going to keep the logistics of keeping to using 10 shapes to the entire typeface.
• I am going to produce my Typeface digitally - a more proffesional outcome.

Glyphic neue Narrow Italic - This is the font I chose to adapt, now in lowercase.

Times new roman - I had to firstly find a font with many serifs to find where they were within certain letters. I would only be using the lower case element of this font. With this I had to identify the amount of different serifs. I depicted 4 main serifs, which consisted of an ascender serif, spur serif, bracket serif and decender serif. For each of these I produced a design, which you can see below in the design sheet (top right hand corner). This meant that letters would contain just a few 'curls' meaning my design would become more legible, and not too overworked which I felt was an issue in my previous designs.

Heres my first design sheet for the lower case design I intended to do after attending a crit and gaining feedback on my typeface.

 Heres the final product - The entire alphabet and 6 glyphs done in lowercase, using the logic given to my curls, limited shapes and serifs. Overall I really like this design in comparison to my previous uppercase designs. I feel its more simple making more legible, and with lowercase I could build on my adjective 'restricted' as only 5 shapes needed to be used to make the typeface.

Finalising designs!

The shapes my entire typeface is made up of

Final photographs - a bit of photoshop editing...

A few photoshop edits of final photographs 

Here i layered a cloud like mask over the image to give it an ice like quality, and reduced saturation around the ice cube as the colour of the wood was distracting from the centre image.

Here i went a bit further, using a cooling filter to give it a blue tone. I saturated the actual ice cube slightly as there seemed to be a yellow tinge from the woof it was put onto. This also i gave a blu e filter on. I cut out the cloud filter more precisely and lowered the opacity.  

 This experiment did't really work, I was unable to cut the cube out smoothly; with a smooth edge this probably would have been a good final piece to work with all my image. 

Final Photographs to print