Design practice

FINALS - 
No news is good news evaluation.


I'm pretty happy with the results. I was adamant on keeping it humourous and light hearted and I'm glad I stuck with it. Everyone who saw it and read it had a little laugh at the end which was satisfying to see. It seems my hard work paid off. At first I thought I was abit lost and felt really locked in terms of design. We could only use two colours plus  stock so it was difficult sacrificing really good, visually engaging ideas because of those restrictions. The format was also restricted and as I designed the "TYPE" poster I couldn't help but feel like it looked like a bank brochure, like the ones you pick up up from HSBC and pretend to read because the que is too long and you want to kill abit of time, only to throw it away straight after. Despite these pretty firm restrictions I feel like I succeeded to communicate my message. 
Heres the breakdown of the posters individually:


Just type - Whilst researching the Xfactor I came across this headline "This is what happens when you fall out with Simon Cowell" It was about a former xfactor WINNER who is now performing at pub gigs for £2.50 a ticket. The quote was the thing that pulled me in. It grabbed my attention instantly, So I really wanted my type poster to focus around that quote. As previously mentioned, I wanted to keep it humourous so I tried to make light of the quote and show how tragic this mans carreer really is. I used the same tecnique the headline had used on me. "Use a simple statement to grab peoples attention. It should be enough for them to stick around and find out more" SO my statement was "£2.50!" I then placed the quote right under "2.50" to help the audience find out more and keep them gripped.
The main message I wanted to get across was how cheap this man has become and how low he would steep to
get abit of attention. I'm perfectly aware about hierarchy of type and how people read things but I wanted to play around with this and placed the most important part of the message at the bottom of the page in a really small font size. Not only does this make the audience look at it longer it also doubles up as a punchline.


Image and type-
A gig poster promoting Steve's gig. Complete with tacky/cheap star price sticker.


Just image-
My final design for this happened by accident but it was an accident that worked in my favour. As I began to threshold a photo of Steve I had altered it so much he had become unrecognisable. But then I realised that no one knew who he was in the first place. So I played around with that idea and distorted/ took facial features out. I removed the eyes as they are the most recognisable feature. I also broke apart his face to symbolise his career being "shattered"