I took the current designs to a crit session hoping to find out if people could relate with the justifications I have made regarding my design decisions and to see how I can push the design further ready for print.
My biggest concern was communicating the type over the top of the face and whether people thought I was going down the right route with this. I had a lot opinions regarding this with people suggesting it did look most effective like this, as otherwise the students face alone would look peculiar and would draw as the centre of focus, removing the stress on what it is actually saying. The purpose of their face being present was to simply provide a more personal and recognisable base to where the advice was coming from, as new freshers students would see us around and understand it was coming from a good source. Although I do need to experiment with how I can make each quote consistently fit over the different face shapes.
On the other hand, people were unsure and suggested to atleast experiment with how it could look elsewhere on the layout, which I will do however feel as if takes away from the whole concept behind the poster layout.
As it will be on A3 I have got space to experiment with smaller type sizes to fit the information around the face differently, but this again could draw from my original concept and change the message behind the whole aesthetic of it completely.
In order to achieve the consistency I will alter the head-sizes so they are all the same scale and then it will be down to experimentation with type setting allowing facial features to be viewable simultaneously as the text, thus affecting the mood that the type is read within.
People completely agreed with my use of colour, stating that it does provide a more approachable and also eye catching base to the poster design. The typography was the right choice aswell, again engaging the new students in the right way.
It was suggested to me that on the first/intro poster "Learn from my Mistakes", that 'MISTAKES' is not necessary in uppercase as none of the other posters feature this.
I have already experimented with how the border appears in order to provide a contrasting boundary for each colour within, but it was suggested I should try without.
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