No news is good news

After the initial ideas process I decided to 

take forward a simple but clear method 

to deliver my fact through poster design. 

I started working on the 'image and type' 

poster first, as I felt once this had been 

achieved I could easily go onto draw 

certain elements into the other two. 

I wanted to integrate a variety of stroke 

and style into the text throughout each 

poster, however keeping in mind an 

overall conformity to each one.

Touching back on an initial idea I decided

to make the text and imagery justified, 

leaving a healthy space either side.This 

produced a rather tidy visual, reinforcing 

this idea to take further.

Still messing around with stroke, minimal

colour and font.

 I vectored the internationally recognised 

airport logo for the last part of the poster

to suggest exactly that, an airport.

Once each part of the fact had been 

communicated I continued to mess 

around with editing certain fonts

and slightly rearranging imagery. 

Experimenting with inverting the colour

and reworking the symbolisation of 

the cigarettes.

I wasn't overly happy with the turnout

of the last few designs, bulky type for

the 32 didn't particularly work and the

 white on black produced a considerably

less effective visual in comparison.

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When it came to working on the poster
solely using text, it wasn't too much of
an issue, the colours still worked and it
produced a similar conformed visual.

However, the image based poster posed 
certain problems when it came to representing
'Dublin' airport. I didn't want to use such cliche
imagery such as a clover, or silly, a pot of 
gold. It was my plan to use the Irish flag to
 represent the airport's whereabouts in a simple 
and politically correct way. The problem lay
with colour, two colours plus stock restricted
me to what I had already been working with, 
allowing no room for orange to represent the
latter half of the Irish flag.

Keeping the colours conformed didn't
particularly communicate the Irish flag
at all, apart from its form which wasn't
enough. I decided to transform the colour
choice, keeping the green and replacing
the black for orange. A risky choice but I
 ran with it for the sake of communicating
the message effectively.

A few art boards of the image based posters, messing 

around with the composition and colour. Some of these

 could work quite well visually but may start to distort the 

message. My initial plan was to keep these posters as highly

legible and understandable as possible.

Reverting back to the straight simple
design, I felt this worked quite well and 
the colours weren't too offensive. After 
applying this to the other posters and
picking up on an 'EI' spelling mistake
in 'seized' I was near enough left with
the posters to take to my crit.