For this task we had to design a poster for on InDesign, we designed a poster on paper and we based the work on that. My poster had speech on it saying, ‘40% of teens do not access political information’ and ‘20% do not know where to find political information’. The larger triangle at the top right hand side shows the 40% and the smaller shows the 20%.
First I make 1 triangle by clicking on the shape tool and changing the settings and changing the settings to 3 sides, I then copied the shape all down the side of the poster to make a long rectangle shape. After this I coloured in a chunk of the triangles to again represent the 40%.
Before doing this task I wasn't very confident because I still struggle when using InDesign because there are so many tools and I don't know what each one does. However I'm glad I knew what my design was so I knew exactly what to do and where I was going with the poster. During this task I learnt how to duplicate shapes and how to arrange layers. If I were to do this task again I would spend more time thinking about the colours I will use and why they are effective because I have used blue, green and black however with no meaning behind it.
In a group we did a survey around college, we asked students questions about their political knowledge. When we had finished the survey we had to arrange our results on a document then for homework we chose a question to focus on and made a factual statement from the results. I chose mine to be ‘40% of teens do not access political information’ and ‘20% do not know where to find political information’ I used these statistics because all of the other results were mainly just 50/50 or unsurprising so I thought this would be interesting.
In the following weeks we looked at a lot of different art forms. In pairs we focused on one art form and presented our new research to the class, by doing this it was a quicker way to understand different art forms because we were taking notes when other groups were presenting. I decided to base my final poster on Swiss Style. This specific art form has a clean layout, it is easy to understand and read, finally it uses many shapes. I have included some triangles and a rectangle in my poster. I thought this was a good style to base my poster on because it is simple yet it gets the point across and it looks tidy. Swiss style also helped me come up with the idea of having one triangle bigger than the other purely because the text in that triangle included a bigger percentage.
At the beginning all of my writing was the same size font and I was going to leave it like that however I was thinking about what to improve and I realised that it might look more interesting if I made the percentages larger than the other writing, demonstrating that they are the most important parts of the sentence. My design that I did on paper is also slightly different than my final photoshop poster because when doing it on the computer, I realised that the colours would look better if they stood out more, that it why I included black in the triangles and white wring over the top, on my paper design the triangles were white and the font colour was green.
Although I am getting a lot more used to photoshop I still struggle to use it because it has so many tools and don’t know what each one does so it was difficult at times when I wanted to do something to my design but I didn’t know how to get there. For example I didn’t know how to put triangles into the corner of the page but I finally realised that I adjust the shapes to fit the page, it took me a while to realise that however I remembered what we did in class a couple of weeks ago and that triggered my memory. I think this task probably was how I imagined it to be, it was quite challenging however it gets a lot easier the more you get familiarised with the tools, luckily to original design wasn’t too difficult to I didn’t need to change much apart from a couple of colours.
After printing it out in A3 I have realised that I have made a couple of mistakes, for example the triangles in the middle are wonky which could make the poster look untidy. Some of the edges are not straight which I didn’t realise before printing it. If I were to do this task again I would make sure I zoomed in a lot to make the edges and triangles to look neat. Overall I am happy with my poster however as I said before I wish I spent more time perfecting the edges.
In the following weeks we looked at a lot of different art forms. In pairs we focused on one art form and presented our new research to the class, by doing this it was a quicker way to understand different art forms because we were taking notes when other groups were presenting. I decided to base my final poster on Swiss Style. This specific art form has a clean layout, it is easy to understand and read, finally it uses many shapes. I have included some triangles and a rectangle in my poster. I thought this was a good style to base my poster on because it is simple yet it gets the point across and it looks tidy. Swiss style also helped me come up with the idea of having one triangle bigger than the other purely because the text in that triangle included a bigger percentage.
At the beginning all of my writing was the same size font and I was going to leave it like that however I was thinking about what to improve and I realised that it might look more interesting if I made the percentages larger than the other writing, demonstrating that they are the most important parts of the sentence. My design that I did on paper is also slightly different than my final photoshop poster because when doing it on the computer, I realised that the colours would look better if they stood out more, that it why I included black in the triangles and white wring over the top, on my paper design the triangles were white and the font colour was green.
Although I am getting a lot more used to photoshop I still struggle to use it because it has so many tools and don’t know what each one does so it was difficult at times when I wanted to do something to my design but I didn’t know how to get there. For example I didn’t know how to put triangles into the corner of the page but I finally realised that I adjust the shapes to fit the page, it took me a while to realise that however I remembered what we did in class a couple of weeks ago and that triggered my memory. I think this task probably was how I imagined it to be, it was quite challenging however it gets a lot easier the more you get familiarised with the tools, luckily to original design wasn’t too difficult to I didn’t need to change much apart from a couple of colours.
After printing it out in A3 I have realised that I have made a couple of mistakes, for example the triangles in the middle are wonky which could make the poster look untidy. Some of the edges are not straight which I didn’t realise before printing it. If I were to do this task again I would make sure I zoomed in a lot to make the edges and triangles to look neat. Overall I am happy with my poster however as I said before I wish I spent more time perfecting the edges.
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