Lets go birds watching

Final version of mine

Initial ugly poster

The one above is the ugly poster and the one below is my version of it. In the past two weeks of classes, I have been working on my poster. We have received a really ugly poster at first and we had to make it look better with the 4 rules of design in mind. The four rules are proximity, contrast, repetition and alignment. I choose to do everything in blue as I came across the picture of birds I have at the bottom, and blue seems to fit well with bird watching, resembling the sky.

I think I have followed repetition the most, as all of my words are in the font of "American Typewriter", some of it are bold while some are just normal. I have also used the same royal blue for the start and the end of the poster, for the title and contact details.

I kept the principle of proximity in mind and grouped the date, time, attire and fee together. I wasn't sure of where I should have put the details of  the activity, and with the help of my teacher, that information was put under the title. This decision was based on the fact that the information wasn't as important as the time, date, fee and attire, but would be best to put at the start, so as to give people an idea of what the activity would be like. That is how it ended underneath the title.

When deciding about the alignment, I tried and play around with them. Usually, I would have just chosen the center alignment for the title straight away as that was what I usually do in writing an essay. After learning more about alignment, I have decided to use left alignment for everything, combining the idea of proximity. Although I put the contact details on the right, I have decided that left alignment still looks better than right.

My poster does not really consist of contrast, as most of them are similar, so I didn't do much of contrasting.

The gray words now in the poster, used to be white with blue outline, after experimenting with different color and drop shadows, grey seemed to look the best. Color choices are really important too.

I really enjoyed creating this poster, which is unlike the ones I created in Word before. This software was really fun to use.

resources: the bird pic is from https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhHan1vd6B6O1UQEuOboOCnzcnv5iNkVsIOa3Qjew3HcRP3UN074KAXqcX6rs8Pe3-pbsiOAisUY_CLiFJSYsW4EKaBNkO3qSgnt9MQavLZwaoJHg60skKERc4lcb3y7iTCyfupKI_PProv/s400/bj_final.jpg