Poster Research and Inspiration

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The next step of the project, was to look at current poster designs, evaluating how they communicate and inspirations I can take for my designs. These are a few designs I found as inspiration:


These first designs have the same aim as the posters I will design for my project. They use imagery to present design principles, specifically in this cane, emphasis and contrast. Both primarily use colour and shape to send this message, emphasis uses the bright red offset against the greyscale surroundings to bring emphasis to the centre triangle and contrast uses the reversed repetition of the squares to give a line of contrast.

http://www.designpanoply.com/blog/creative-inspiration-10-principles-of-design


These posters have the purpose of representing characters using only a sheet of paper. They use very simplistic methods but effectively send the message to the public of the character they represent. In this case, Rear Window is represented by the cut white paper created to emulate blinds and a gap exaggerated to give the impression someone is peering through. They also successfully display Dracula using commonly understood conventions, that vampires leave two circular bite marks on the skin and the association between red and blood.


These examples reveal that simple designs can be successful in presenting a message and that the use of colour, texture and shape can be useful as semiotic tools.

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