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

This poster is driven by the content, as its all about architecture that has inspired me to look at the architecture of lettering, more specifically fontographer. I have seen some really lovely design work on behance where people have document the processes they have gone through to create logos etc and this is essentially what i want to do, expect the final product will be the anatomy of the type. 

For the basis of development i have used Helvetica, this is purely because it is such an easy font to use and gives me a plain sheet to work with. For the final poster i will be using a sans serif, and a serif font to create a small range of posters. So it kind of caters to everyones needs. 

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I have then messed around with adding architectural lines, and 

arrows just to give a bit more of a structure to the type and make it 

stand out a bit more, and look more obvious. I prefer the filled in arrows

as they stand out. I have also added to colour and played around with reversing

the type out to see the best visual.

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After looking into fonotgrapher i then went on to create my own guide

and mark out all the letters using illustrator. I decided to do the whole body 

copy to see how this would look. 

I think i was right in thinking it looks a little messy and should be simplified down.

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Playing around in fonotgrapher and looking at using architectural lines

and contructs. 

One thing i did realise is that I'm not sure i need all the text, it may work better just

using 'typography' as the whole thing may end up looking jumbled. 

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I started out by looking at the contructs you get within illustrator,

such as the anchor points. Layouts, fitting to grid etc, just to see

how that can be used an manipulated.

This bought me on to look into fontographer to see more of

a professional look at editing type. i have never used the software

before, but it was good to start playing around with it.