How To Typology Poster: week 2

Today we had an interesting feedback session on our work. I was surprised that the illustrations people chose as their favourites actually tended to be my least favourites. This week I therefore want to take these drawings and make them into something which I am happier with. Someone suggested that I simply take the idea of wrapping the present in fabric and produce the 24 images for my poster based on this. After discussing this with my peer tutor I have decided not to do this. I feel that I would end up creating a very mechanical poster, something which I personally find boring and would not put up on my wall. I also feel that I might be stretching one idea two far and instruction manuals already exist on how to wrap something in cloth i.e. in LUSH. I think by using a mishmash of all my most wacky ideas will not only show off my creative range better but I will have more fun doing it. 

Having experimented with composition and layout I have decided that my favourite is the third. I think that the title works best like this to split up the imagery and it is not too far down the page (as is the second). Having experimented with composition I started to think about how I was going to unite my imagery and I came up with an idea, which I think will work really well. I am going to try cutting out a grey square, which I am going to collage onto each of the drawings to represent the present. I hope that this will not only unite the piece but it will make each of the illustrations clearer. Now all I have left to do is to continue to develop my chosen images before I can get started on creating the poster. 

It was also really exciting to see everyone else's work during the crit. It was interesting how differently each person had responded to their title. One piece which I particularly liked was Ehrn’s reinvention of the bucket. Each time he presented the same bucket but containing a different uncontainable thing. The repetition of the bucket worked really well visually and it is what lead me to consider having a repeated form for my present.