Monday, April 8, 2019

Broadside Poster

Our Typography 2 class is collaborating with SDSU’s English and Comparative Literature Depart- ment on this Poem Broadside project. Our goal is to successfully design a given poem in a creative and conceptual manner utilizing the broadside format. Poetry International, an organization who publishes poetry anthologies, is also involved in this collaboration. I incorporated using photos and typography. The poem I chose was me thinking about my dog and trying to showcase him and integrate him in to the poem.


The learning outcome:

• Expand critical thinking through conceptual and contextual exploration.

• Learn more about print and web typography through research, theory, and practice. 


• Develop a broadside with a focused purpose and targeted goal.

• Create and develop visual form in response to communication problems, including principles of visual organization/composition, information hierarchy, symbolic representation, typography, aesthetics, and the construction of meaningful images.

• Describe and respond to audience and context, communicate solutions that address physical, cognitive, cultural, and social human factors that shape design decisions.

• Present work that demonstrates perceptual acuity, conceptual understanding, and systems thinking (including grids—modern and post modern—and proportional systems).

• Explore digital application of conceptual typography; solve inherent legibility challenges.

• Understand and solve the challenge of working with congruent Type + Image relationships.

The poem of choice
Some Drawings to create ideas
Some Drawings to create ideas



Different Variations

Finding Placement for the Type

Finding Placement for the Type


Once I came up the final idea was trying to make the background seem more realistic
This was with a carpet background
This was with Grass as the background
Grass background with using him in different sizes
Using hardwood floor as the background
After blending the grass around him to make it look like he was in the grass and not floating.
These are the final results
Black and White
The final one in color







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