Category: Principles of Visual Design

This is my final poster. I combined multiple ideas and shapes to relay a message to my audience such as the circular spotlight to highlight the badger and typographical features such as statistics to deliver information and inform people of current issues. I also chose to add a moon to make it more obvious that I am raising awareness for being careful driving at night. The baby badger being outside of the spotlight suggests that when you aren’t careful driving, … Continue reading “Final poster”

I drafted my poster in illustrator and overall was extremely happy with the last result. My first step was creating the base of my poster, I made sure the poster was A1 dimensions in portrait mode. After I had done this, I created the baby badger from my original poster idea. I did this by taking the adult badger, ungrouping the illustration and copying the body, I then created a completely new head for the baby using the pen tool. … Continue reading “Draft poster design”

I decided to combine the image of a wine glass and an apple as I couldn’t easily photograph any aspects of my poster idea. Firstly I took some photos of the apple and glass. I wanted to achieve some interesting effects by experimenting with the backgrounds and surroundings, this made it more challenging to edit but overall I am proud of the final product. I used photoshop to create my final design. Firstly I dragged the photos into photoshop and … Continue reading “Designing with photography”

Experimenting with shapes and imagery for my poster One of the key images of my poster is the badger and I wanted to focus on this first. I used the pen tool with my mouse to draw everything in this post. I knew from the beginning that I was attempting to create a modern looking poster with an up to date illustration style. I looked at references of badgers to make sure that I got the key shapes right. This … Continue reading “Drawing in Adobe Illustrator”

For my wildlife conservation poster, I have decided to focus on advocating country road awareness at night. I want to come up with a design solution that will be emotive enough to make a difference, just like the examples in my last blog post. I initially thought of making a poster about fox hunting and badger baiting (hence the dog mouths) however this is already illegal and rarely practised, roadkill however is still a common issue. I started thinking of … Continue reading “Conceptual Design Ideas- Poster”

For my poster I have decided to focus on something that I am passionate about which is wildlife conservation. I am aiming to create a poster that raises awareness for British wildlife conservation and encourages people to take action. My audience will be families and people of all ages, aiming to reach as many people as possible. I could see my poster being displayed in wildlife reserves and around countryside areas urging people to take action where it is most … Continue reading “Poster Subject, Purpose and Audience”