GROUP WORK (Task 1)

Task 1 

Within our group, we had to create five rules for life. For these, we could only use type, no images apart from graphical elements. For each statement we had to create an A3 poster. 

At first, we wrote down a number of sayings and quotes including some that we live by ourselves and promote positive thinking.

From the number of sayings and quotes we had, we shortlisted it to just five which included:

• “Actions speak louder than words”
• “Punch through that wall”
• “I don’t know why but that is doing something for me”
• “Domino’s later?”
• “Have a fire for every experience”

For each of the poster, we wanted to take a different approach and explore the different ways in which we could create each of the posters. 

Firstly we decided to create the “Have a fire…” poster using letter press. 

We wanted the “fire” and “experience” to be in the same font and to also be in colour whereas the rest of the quote would be in quite a plain and simple font and also in black. 

We thought that red would be a good colour as it is very eye catching and punching, it draws your attention to it. Also, from this we decided to have the word “fire” transition from yellow to red.

As a whole, I am happy with the end result.

For the “Actions speak…” and “I don't know…” posters, we wanted to experiment with creating our own type. 

With the “Domino’s later?” poster, we thought it would be a good idea to put the words in a speech bubble, similar to the ones that are found on iPhone messages. Also, we decided to turn the “o” in “domino’s” into pizzas. 

For the “Punch through…” poster, we wanted to have the word “wall” to be bold and large and to have a brick pattern and then to have the words “punch through that” in the middle as if the words had “punched’ through the wall. 

Of all of the them, this is the one that we found the most challenging. We knew that creating a stencil would have probably been the easiest when it came to creating the hole in the wall however, it required a lot of trial and error before we got it correct.