Six Word Advice Poster
For this project, I created two posters focusing on giving a six-word piece of advice to incoming freshmen at Maine College of Art. The main focus of the project was experimenting the relationship between type and image, and how one can affect the other.
Brainstorming and Sketches
I started by brainstorming some ideas, and ended up making around twenty different pieces of advice to focus on. Then, I narrowed down my twenty ideas to three and began making thumbnail sketches.
Compositions
From these sketches I narrowed it down to two different ideas and began some compositions in InDesign. At this point, I incorporated imagery and photographs.
Refinement of my selected compositions
Finals
For my two finalized designs, the relationship between the imagery and type is vital to the message. In my first poster, the advice "Sometimes it's okay to do drugs", the message of the type on it's own actually gives bad advice, suggesting to g out and try drugs. When paired with the imagery of the coffee cups however, the message becomes about the use of caffeine, and how incoming freshmen will need a lot of coffee for late nights working on homework. For my second poster, the advice, "Backup your files to avoid tears" gives standard advice, but provides no reason as to how backing up files could avoid tears. However, when paired with the simple imagery of the infamous pinwheel-of-death (the shape that the mac cursor turns into usually when a program crashes), it becomes a fearful warning that you may lose your files if your programs ever crash. Both posters focus on the relationship between type and image, and how that can affect the message of a poster.
