Updates to draft (reposted from Basecamp):
– added UT History dept. logo and Littlefield house
– added gradient vignette
– added some texture to the text–not sure if I want to keep the texture so I made flat versions
– removed texture from poster background b/c it looked like a pattern of water droplets or moisture
I added texture to the type instead of the background.
This is a poster for The Littlefield Lecture series. In this first draft, I’ve decided to depart from the previous design and create a new design. I based the overall design around the photo of the book cover I was given (the photo is featured in the poster). This is why I chose to use horizontal lines for accents, a sans-serif font, and colors similar to the book cover.
– Font: Bodoni MT, Poster Compressed | Compressed Bold
– Dimensions: 11″ x 17″ + 1″ Bleeds
– Currently saved as medium quality jpegs, will save in proper formats and file locations after first round of feedback
If this design winds up getting rejected, my fallback plan is to use the old poster as a template and make a new poster based off of the old one.
**These are NOT new drafts.**
These are just here to illustrate the possible color options if peach on white is not preferred. For the color palette, I sampled colors from the book cover featured in the poster. For the final first draft, I used a peach for the text. (It looks more yellow on here, but it’s pinker on my laptop.) Since the colors on my laptop tend to view warmer, I’ve included the hex codes below:
Hex Codes Background (blue): #687c98 | Text (peach): #f6ddc3
I used Bebas Neue and Tahoma Bold+Regular. For my color palette, I juxtaposed a bright, saturated red against a less saturated bluish-purple. Since the image looked kind of choppy, I used the gaussian blur filter to make it look smoother and then applied a gradient map. Poster v1a (top-left) has a purple-to-red map whereas v1b (top-right) has a red-to-red map.
Disregard poster v3. I decided to include it in this post, but I don’t think it’s a viable design: it has too many scattered elements and almost no information hierarchy. It’s also incomplete (the panel info and the date aren’t placed intentionally).
– The bottom two posters have a white background, which is not visible on this WordPress site.
– Posters v1a and v1b (the top two) may need to be color corrected–they turned out a lot darker when exported than when I opened them up in Photoshop. Will look into this later.
– I didn’t include bleeds…should I?
I may or may not make another version without Tahoma, perhaps replacing it with Futura, or using Didot for a sans-serif version.
For PSY 364, I updated the dashboard graphic featuring Dr. B and updated the PPT template for the quiz and chat slides using the new color background.
