no news is good news final posters

I came up with three final designs, and tested the blue and pink colour schemes. Here they are:

I chose the pink ones for printing - I feel that the shocking nature of the message being delivered is well contrasted by the innocence of the pink colour. The blue makes the posters look like your average 'cry for help' sort of material. I should have attached a website somewhere really, thinking about it now, it's all good and well conveying the message, but pretty useless if there's nothing directing the viewer towards more information. I'll remember that for next time. 

the image isn't all that bright so the colours look a bit dull. But you get the idea.

image and type ideas - no news is good news.

Drawing together the ideas I have produced so far I thought it would be a good idea to work out some potential resolutions using suitable colour schemes and layouts. The hand-cuff/pacifier image appeared to be the most popular, I guess compared to the other vector graphics I drew up it is more suggestive of young people being put into someone elses control other than the parents. 

I'm not particularly happy with the brown one.....I mainly chose that as I saw a similar poster using that sort of colour scheme. I feel the black/white/pink/blue is the most suitable, as blue and pink are colours most commonly associated with children. I'll ask around for a few opinions as to what will work best.

Visual Language - Colour Theory and Pantone Matching system

An assortment of red items brought in for the session.

Items arranged in terms of their shades and tints, to create a spectrum within our chose items. 

our group's items were then linked to the next group, who were either orange or violet, therefore creating part of the colour wheel. 

we did have a fair amount of stuff it seemed.

The activity was a bit more tricky then it would initially appear - due to different surfaces and textures, it was often difficult to determine where a particular item would fit within the spectrum. 

hey presto, a colour wheel constructed out of entirely random objects. demonstrates the absolute diversity of colour present on everyday objects. 

Pantone Colour Matching System:

A set of swatch pads used to identify the true colours of designs, ensuring no mistakes are made when printing. They're quite expensive, as far as swatch pads go.

The second half of the session involved using these swatch pads to identify the Pantone colours of ten of our objects. Once again, easier said than done, a lengthy task but it was quite interesting to be fair. 

Colours identified:

formula solid matte booklet

Bisto lid : PANTONE DE 102-1 C

c 20 m 100 y 70 k 15

Teabag box: PANTONE DE 91-1 C

c 0 m 100 y 80 k 10

Craft Knife:

PANTONE DE 73-1 C

c 0 m 100 y60 k 0

coated euro booklet

Throat Lozenges Box:

PANTONE DE 108-1 C

c 0 m 100 y 60 k 0

Mount board frame:

PANTONE DE 98-2 C

c 0 m 90 y 65 k 10

coated vol.1

Graphic Design book front cover:

PANTONE RED 032 C 80% (ratio of ink on stock)

solid matte

Tesco Strawberry Lemonade packaging label:

PANTONE 206M

14 pts PANTONE Rub.Red 87.5

2 pts PANTONE Yellow 12.5

Cadmium Red Paint tube:

PANTONE 185M

12 pts PANTONE WARM RED 75.0

4 pts PANTONE Rub.Red 25.0

Tomato Ketchup Bottle:

PANTONE 199M 

12 pts PANTONE Rub.Red 75.0

4 pts PANTONE YELLOW 25.0

Cola-Cola Can:

PANTONE 200M

12 pts PANTONE Rub.Red 73.9

4 pts PANTONE YELLOW 24.6

1/4 pt PANTOME BLACK 2.5

Here's some photos of the Pantone swatch pads in use. Photos courtesy of Sophie

Wicked. here's a swatch made from the ten colours identified. Demonstrates how many different shades and tints of red are found in many everyday objects, without being an obvious thing. 

Vector Graphics

A few vector graphics I made for use with the poster. After asking a few opinions it became pretty clear that the handcuffs/pacifier image worked the best. I feel the same way to be honest.

text based poster ideas

A couple of ideas for the text-based poster. The second one somehow appears to be conveying a more serious message, probably due to the background colour chosen and the fact that only the word 'victims' is highlighted.

typeface research

several typefaces I feel would be effective for use on posters. Respectively:

1) Helvetica Bold

2) Century Gothic Bold

3) Gill Sans Bold

4) Futura Medium

5) Myriad Bold

6) Lucida Grande Bold
7) Geneva Regular
8) Arial Bold


After asking a number of opinions, i learnt that number 5 (Myriad Bold) would be perhaps most effective to start off with. If it doesn't perform so well for my text-incorporating posters then I suppose I could just be safe and standard with Helvetica, by the looks of things it must be the poster's favourite typeface.

more..

couple more ideas for my image-only poster:

I quite like these two. But maybe I'm rushing into experimentation too quick and not generating enough ideas.