Assignment 3 in Interface Aesthetics
Line Poster: Using a copy of the original piece, create a new composition by adding the parts of the inverse copy to the original piece.
Shape Poster: Create compositions that embody your sense of visual accord with energy and harmony. While giving the page a sense of liveliness and poise, don’t forget to give the reader a sense of direction.
Line Poster
Continuing work on my posters for Grouptalk, I tried inserting some lines and bringing parts from an inverse color version. I chose to use the inverse as a tool to highlight the most important element (the title) even more…
Shape Poster
Then, for shape, I drew more lines that attempted to guide the reader from the center (title) outwards toward the other critical elements. I also wanted to accent the balance I had demonstrated in the previous assignment, without throwing it off.
In the end, I feel that my changes were perhaps more conservative than necessary, but I was working with the boldest version of my poster (the diagonal version) so I was hesitant of overdoing it.
April 12th, 2009 at 12:11 am - Edit
Nice work using line and shape to lead the viewer’s eye from the “grouptalk” title to the “free food and drink”. The line poster highlights decisions in your original design that complicate the composition: you could use fewer type sizes, the grouptalk logo could stand alone without the centered text around it, and the bottom left text could shrink so that it lies father from the uncomfortably close line. Given your original composition, shape and line work well.