Poster Design

Now that I have generated what I feel will be strong images for my posters I now need to think about how I will be making them. Thinking about typical health posters from the NHS, the style is usually simple and accessible for all. The message is clear and obvious which is a feature I will need to keep in mind for my prisoner audience. The posters will be glanced at quickly and the message of a health opinion will have to be shown in both the text and the image.
As I like to work in collage I was advised by my tutor Jo to look at the style of the polish/Czech posters from the 1930s onwards. I already knew and liked the look of these poster designs and I think it would be fun to work in this way.

 

After researching this poster style I think I'm going to use both collage and ink in someway. In many of the posters I liked featured one or two simple block colours along with black images or text. In these examples, this minimum use of colour along with the black ink images on neutral backgrounds makes for a great look. This style is definitely how I like to work and hopefully my own versions featuring these similar elements will turn out well.