Typographical Poster Design
This project will focus on the manipulation and arrangement of typography and images as they convey messages through a poster series. Each poster will communicate the meaning of a person's work contribution.
Meet The Poets
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Kari Gunter-Seymour
Founder/Executive Director of the Women of Appalachia Project
Frequently raises awareness on Appalachian culture and the class system set within society in the U.S.
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Russell Atkins
American poet and playwright
Introduced new poems, music, and plays in order to stand out and avoid traditional art that didn’t reach all audiences.
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Yalie Saweda Kamara
American writer, educator, and researcher
Discusses the class divides and other racial challenges that people still face today. She also talks about her faith frequently as well.
Let’s start from the early stages…
At the beginning of this project’s journey, we began getting assigned our poets and researching them. Doing so would further inform us on who and what we are using to represent a larger message. Each poet had a unique story while also falling adjacent to two others for each group. My assigned theme was Unbound Landscapes: Ohio's Poetic Threads.
Beginning
At the beginning of this design process, we students were told to use physical media and creativity to create posters based on our assigned themes. We were also instructed to come up with brief ideas and descriptions to explain how our design tied in with the theme.
Through further research, I began to come up with clearer ideas I wanted to incorporate into my designs. I was encouraged to start back at the beginning stage, sketching. This helped ground my designs more effectively, as I used to jump straight into my work without a set plan.
Digital Iterations
Final Version
The final result has many aspects that I had previously used. I enjoyed the opacity and Gaussian blur effect as it felt representative of each poet’s voice being tuned out by society. As my method description goes, I utilized type to demonstrate the societal ridicule against my assigned poets and other figures like them. I used the Gaussian blur to hone in on the idea of blurring the lines of social expectation. Of course, Constructive Destruction was finally cleaned up to highlight the tension between destruction and rebirth, ultimately. In a way, the letters and words for each poster are supposed to break out of their confinement. The blurred lines of type they are breaking out of are negative ideas towards each poet.