Safa Browne’s Poster

Joe Genco poster

Aileen Coughlin’s Poster

Emily Borgeest’s Poster

Lindsey Colegrove’s Poster

Robert Bloomberg’s Poster

Meghin Delaney Poster

Going Green and Expecting the Expected

The first poster I picked is about changing lightbulbs in order to conserve energy. I like the progression of color from left to right in the poster, which works seamlessly with the progression of the text in the poster. We naturally read things from left to right so designing the poster this way was logical. I love the eye illustrations in the posters, especially the changing eyebrows from nonexistent to worrisome to curious and finally happy. I think the all capital text works very well in this poster and the simple message, “Change A Light” is very succinct and to the point.

 

 

 

My favorite party about the second poster is the visual. I absolutely love that the Earth is drowning in oil, signaling our addiction to oil. I like the green used for the words intervention, fuel and the tagline of “Change your Fuel…Change The World”. I think the color helps signal the importance of those selected words, since there is a lot more text on the poster. I like the clean grass with the flowers underneath the Earth and how the oil is dripping down towards the grass, showing what will be destroyed next by our dependence on oil.

 

 

 

This third poster is for a show on the CW called Life Unexpected. My main problem with this poster is the choice of typography. I don’t mind the typography choice for the word ‘life,’ I think it is modern and works well with the modern type of family that the show portrays. I really wish that the designer has used a different typography for the word unexpected. I think aligned the words right next to each other in those two fonts is very expected, exactly the opposite of the word itself. To me, this signifies that the show will be predictable and boring. I also dislike the ground that the characters are standing on. Yes, they are grounded as they should be in a poster but the ground is not very distinct from the background, so from a far distance they will look as if they are floating in the air.

 

 

 

 

I thought it was interesting that the two posters I liked were about going green. I’ve noticed that posters that other people liked and thought worked well were about going green as well. Anyone have any ideas as to why they think that green posters are always well designed?

Crisp, Clean Color Meets Clutter

This first color scheme kind of tied into the earlier Diesel poster.  There are three main colors which make the poster very striking because the pink, black, and white really contrast with one another.

The poster is quite symmetrical since the faces are side-by-side and the type is aligned, but I still find it very visually pleasing because of the sharp colors and the small details that create a bit of a uniqueness in the faces.  For instance only one of Christina’s eyes is showing, her lips are parted and she is wearing a black hat which matches Cher’s intense hair.

The bright pink title down the center separates the two very different women who are made to look so much alike in this poster.

The next poster is completely visual with a very small amount of writing along the bottom and a logo, and with good reason.  Blue and green are the dominant colors in the poster and compliment each other nicely, the blue is bright in the background and the green which ties the grass to the man’s shirt is bold.

Fittingly enough this poster is about being environmentally friendly and which makes the color choices even more appropriate because these are two colors most often associated with the outdoors.  The green of the shirt draws the viewers eyes downward toward the matching green grass where the type appears.  This ties the man to the earth is a way that is very symbolic for what the poster is representing.

My last poster I found to have bad use of color as well as text.  At the very bottom there is text intertwined with the graphics that are hard to see because they are tiny and the same colors as the graphics.

As for the actual color scheme, I think it is awful.  The mustard yellow and brown are really not very appealing colors to begin with and certainly not in this quantity.  The red and yellow may have been okay on a different background, perhaps a black but I would have to see it because I really don’t know what else could be fixed.

Overall I find the entire poster clustered, hectic, confusing, and definitely not informative, honestly I still have no idea what this is advertising as I can’t read the print.

Megan Griffo’s Poster