Poster designs thus far

Open publication - Free publishing - More design

These are the poster designs that i have put together so far, its helped me realise what processes i have been doing, what needs to be done and how they are working together as a whole. I think its really going to be down to the presentation and packaging to pull them all together. They were never meant to look identical, i think its just my obsession with constancy that is making them look a little different and disjointed, but again that was the idea. 

There are certain ones that you can only visualise once they are processed but they will be.

I wanted to get my lazer cut and embossed posters done over reading week but they have decided to build a room around the laser cutter so i couldn't get near it.. ANNOYING.

So i am just getting all the designs finished and then i can get them done next week.

Poster

"Don't be too harsh to these poems, until they're typed. I always think typescript lends some sort of certainty: at least, if the things are bad then, they appear to be bad with conviction"

- Dylan Thomas

This is another phrase i am going to use for one of my posters. Personally i love it, its comical and incorporates the power of well typed typography which is great!

I really want to distill this saying down and use the process and the type to really re-iterate what is being said. 

Dylan Thomas was around a long time ago, so i want to create the poster using letterpress, and an old school font to try and symbolise the context with which Dylan was talking at the time. 

By playing around with the hierarchy and playing with colour and type this means that i can get a visual impact without having to bombard people with a huge visual. For me, simplicity is always better than throwing the kitchen sink at it... Which is ironic seeing as i tend to throw everything at a design and then distill it down!

I have played around with a lot of layouts which are all below, but i made a short .pdf just to outline the key factors within so it clearly shows where i am going.