W1.3 Working the colours and more posters

Sara Gravemaker
Feb 7, 2017
2 min read

Today I spent most of my morning and a good part of my afternoon furthering my homework tasks for next class. I finished putting together the inspirational posters and added posters from Pierre Jeanneau and Mu Chang Wu.

What attracted me to Jeanneau's designs were the bold typeface and the play with the letters. In each of the designs the letter's spring to the foreground and take centre-stage. He uses colour contrast to make them stand out even more, by using black white and grey, and yellow and black. In the last image the letter's even spiral along with the image, but not in such a way to make them disappear, to make the less recognizable. No he retains the symmetry of the image by not putting the letters in completely straight, but also uses asymmetry by curling them the other way in order to attract the attention to them.

Furthermore he makes use of the golden spiral, by putting the information of the dates exactly in a focus-point of the image. Eventually, the eye of the perceiver will most certainly fall on said information.

What attracted me to Chang Wu's designs has more to do with interest than anything else. I love the authentic use of calligraphical brushstrokes and the elements of asian culture and art in there. The use of much black and little colour, but the ever present delicacy of the brushstrokes really touch me. The final picture to the left also leaves a very deep impression on me. As it has much of a desolate feel to it. The uses of greys and black, they feel like the image has got a story to tell. I find it very hard to analyse the images with regards to the used strategies and such. However, these posters have definitely left me feeling immensely impressed.

The last things left for me to with regards to the posters is to change the lay-outs of the page, the design of the page to suit the images they portray.

Today I also spent quite some time on designing different grids and colour-overlap and playing with different lay-outs. You'll find the results below: