Establishing order: Graphic design often relies on typography to commuicate order, information, and sytems. The goal of this project is to make things easy to read, navigate and understand. As you learned in typography one, the foundation for creating an clear informational structure is a a strong typographic hiearchy. Type size, wieght, and color are the the first steps. Graphic elements (lines, arrows, grids) and page structure are often used to aid in establishing a clear hierarchy.
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You will need to choose from one of the folllowing timeline choices...
TIMELINE CHOICES:
_ History of the Bathing Suit ( I CHOSE THIS ONE!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
_ History of Earthquakes and Volcanic Eruptions
_ History of Photography
_ Prehistoric Timeline
_ 100 years of Flight
CONTENT
_ timeline must have a range of dates
_ intro text
_ each point in time must have a date
_ and each point of time must have at least one sentence
_ images, icons, graphic elements are optional
Use the content from the website, you may use any additional resources for more information, images, etc. You may work in groups on collecting content.
CHALLENGE
How can you visualize the content? How can the audience get a quick understading about the topic? How are the pulled into the content to find out more?
TECHNICAL RESTRICTIONS
Format: poster or accordian folded book
Size: You determine the final size, poster min. size is 13 x 19 tall or wide
Color: Unlimited color palette
Typography: 2 typefaces, 3 type styles, and no more than 4 sizes of type.
Grid: proportional or ratio modular grid
Project Overview:
Well I kinda liked and kinda disliked this particular project. It was challenging as usual but something about it rubbed me just a little bit in the wrong direction. Either way, I got a final poster that I like, and that I feel fufills the needs of the challenge. This was a quick project, and I really wanted to span my ideas out a bit further, but im glad it was short anyway. Im pumped to move on to the next project and get that quick one under my belt as well. I looking forward to doing more work oddly enough. Even enough to do most of it over spring break.
First Steps...
First off, we needed to kinda just pick one out. Due to the quickness of the project, it was basically go with an interest and even if you didn't like it, you were stuck. So I picked the bathing suit just out of chance. So running with it, I started spitting out ideas. They didn't exactly scream timeline, or show it but the thought was there. there is also some pictures thrown in there.
Round Dos: well after some brutal research and some equally brutal critiques, i started going in a few different directions in order to get the right feel. i tried few of the sketches, like the thermometer, swim bouye lines, and an acordian style booklet. like such.
Round 3ish: Well so i continued with the booklet to no avail. it didnt show enough sense of time. So i with the advice of some friends and teachers, i simplified it down to JUST time, and JUST visuals. I came up with a kind of down stream sense, and with some photography tricks i remembered from high school, i came up with a global idea. a sweet techinique if i do say so myself.
Nearing Round 4!!!!!!!!: so after an enlightining critique, i decided to go with the globe idea. but i needed to make it better with a sense of time. I had a few different ideas. some side menus orientation, and vertical orientation, and then a rather skimpy one with no menu's however i think i like that one the best.
ITS THE FINAL ROUND! ALI TOLD ME HIMSELF THAT I WAS THE WORLDS GREATEST!:
So here below is the final product, i made a few adjustments with some stroke weight, some type errors, and even adjusted the color so it didnt look so purple. im happy how it came out, im happy that its over as well. During the actual printing, it was going perfect, literally until the very end. THE DAMN PRINTER CUT ONE WORD OFF. imagine how small that error is when the font size is 8pt. it was literally 1/4 of an inch that got cut off. i was not a happy man, so 8 dollars later, i readjusted, and had a perfectly printed print, and perfectly annoyed design student. o well. what we wont do for good design. nothing i guess. WELL WITHOUT FURTHER ADEIU! the final.
i hope you enjoyed. i did for the most part.
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