Below is my final poster design. One can see the progression of my work through each blog post. The final design includes the body copy, my poem and definitions of words used throughout my design. One can see customised design elements along side experimentation with colour and typographic elements.

The following few scamps further showcase my progress on the design and placement of the elements of in the design. I’ve continued to play with various colours, placements of elements and typographic styles.

The following type faces are the chosen typefaces for my final poster design. Though I’ve only made use of two different types – I have in fact also made use of the two types and their type-families. In essence this aided in providing me with various stylistic attributes by which I made use of by…

The following posters are examples of stylistic inspiration for my poster. I really liked the glitch-like effect on most of them. This, alongside the use of large type, layered on top of various colours and random shapes. One can also see how and where my poster got its inspiration from.

As of recent, I’m grown a liking to my design and began further touches on to my poster. Due to the nature of the project being a “live poster,” I’ve considered space for my logo to be embedded into the final workings of the poster. I’ve also put all elements that I want to move…

The following shows a continuation of my scamps. It shows my progression into the finalisation of my design. Thus including tweaking and polishing of my design. As I continued working I found that my background was looking a bit plain. Thus I began playing with distortion, warping and clipping masks and came to the conclusion…

The following images showcase my process of working throughout last week. One can see the development of my A2 design as well as the progression of my technical skills with reference to “playing” with type on Ai.

Task: Find 3 examples of superfamilies that include serifs & sans serif’s in their collections.  Type superfamilies have got a plethora of variations and stylistic attributes. These include an entire font-family’s Sans collection (medium, bold, italic, condensed, thin etc.) This as well as entire Serif collection and all of its stylistic attributes. 1. ITC Legacy…

In the context of typography, hierarchy refers to what type takes initial preference in the design. This alongside what type or section will be considered a secondary aspect to the main copy. Hierarchy makes reference to defining type-order by means of typographic styling (bold, thin, black, light etc.)

Today we learnt about typography! In essence, hierarchy and typographic anatomy were topics of conversation. The following showcases my “song” exercise as an example of typographic analysis and deconstruction.