My next In Design session with Aidan looked at creating posters using a limited palette. Specifically, we were limited to using text only - no images or anything from Google. The first poster I looked at I found quite easy to create; Acoustic Club. I started by sketching up any ideas I'd had - the poster was to create something that was for numerous musicians and not just a set of one person, so I chose to create instruments from a typeface that related to many different musicians. Again, our colour palette was limited - we weren't to focus on this, instead the position, font face and size that created the poster.
For my first poster, 'Acoustic Club' - I looked at creating something that easy recognisable to musicians, but to entice different types of musicians - for example, I used different text such as 'O' 'I' and 'J' to create different instruments without using already pre-made images. I found this to be quite easy to do with music, but as each poster had a different meaning later found it quite hard to create something I'd like. The Acoustic one was one of my strongest posters; I feel it created the exact mood and intentionfor the club and was also one of the easiest ones to associate with what it was created for.
The next poster was the 'Craft Beer' - This was a lot harder than I thought and overall I'm not too happy with the outcome, I want to go back and improve it. The idea behind this one was to have the text sat in-between a beer created out of shapes on Photoshop. The colours I feel work well, but not for the beer feel - though I've tried to make it look as professional and modern as possible, using the same font before and making it look as if the B in Beer is a beer glass. This way it's still associated with the topic.
Overall I did like this workshop, though found it really tested me. I did like coming up with different ideas but it proved difficult to limit myself so much, but found that I could still create something that I was happy with (especially with the Acoustic Poster) so it was still nice to create work that I was proud of, even though I didn't think I'd achieve it. I'd still like to go back and improve some posters as I feel they don't look as great as the first one, and don't look 'creative' enough for me.
