Homecoming 2016 reflection

For this project we had to make a visually attractive poster an infographic that portrays the theme “Dark and Stormy night at Raven Manor”. This was probably one of my more difficult projects due to the miscommunications and small amount of time we had on this project.

I started out sketching about 20 designs for the poster that had the theme dark and stormy. I Settled on 2 ideas of one with a banner that looked kind of like a pumpkin and a more witchy theme with a girl sitting on the moon above some spooky trees. I worked on the graphics and typography for the two for about a week and using mostly illustrator I vectored all my images to maintain a high quietly print. Then I got together with my classmates to review my work. We narrowed it down to my banner poster. I found the typography to be a very difficult challenge (since it's one of my more weak spots). We regrouped one last time and decided to get rid of my typography and pull in Jacklyn's. I used a lot of gold foil and vector art to try and portray the theme.

There are a lot of things I wish I could have changed but the major one would be to change my concept to my idea of drawing an old house on a hill with the moon large in the background. I feel like this idea would have fit the theme “Raven Manor” a lot better and I would have avoided the very similar idea Jacklyn and I shared. Another thing would to have used better typography by either talking to Brett or trying to draw it myself. It would have been a lot more difficult but the final product would have been much better than the online fonts. I did like my color choice (even if the committee did not, no idea why because it's what they asked for...) I think the purple to blue gradient looked wonderful with the dark outline of the people. The gold boarder turned out way better than I could have expected!

For my next project I am definitely going to focus on typography THEN graphics. I want to use more of my own artwork as well. Overall I think I learned how to better deal with an extremely difficult client, this will for sure be helpful in the future when I deal with this again. It was a fun project since I got to work with Annika and get her feedback. I wish I could do it again and try to make it better.