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Final Installation
The final stage of installation was choosing what order i wanted to put my posters in. I wanted to balance the colours as well as the positioning of the text. Once I was happy with the order of my posters I hung them up and used the velcro and a spirit level to position the posters completely in line with one another.
Exhibition Installation
Once I hung up all my frames on the screws i realised that they swung out slightly at the bottom. To overcome this i used some velcro at the bottom of the frames to stick them to the wall. Not only did this allow me to position the frames correctly it meant they were even more secure on the wall, considering my frames were hung in the corridor this meant they are less likely to fall off if people knock against them.
Exhibition Installation
Today I drilled the plugs and screws into my exhibition space where i have marked out the positioning for them. I had to make sure the head of the screws were small enough to allow the frames to hang securely on the wall as the fixing wasn’t that big. Luckily the clips decreased in size from top to bottom which meant that the screw slid into place and didn’t move once they were hanging freely.
Exhibition Installation
The first job i completed was to fill all the existing holes in the wall with poly-filler, wait for it to dry and to sand it down once it’s dried. I then touched up all the marks on the wall with grey paint so that i could begin positioning my frames.
My frames are still yet to arrive so in the meantime i measured the points i wanted my 5 frames to sit. I used the spirit level and a ruler, along with the help of Eloise to position my frames at eye-level. I marked the points that needed drilling with pencil.
Printing
Now that i have finally finished every aspect of my posters it means i am able to get them printed properly onto silk finish paper. Due to the expense of printing I have decided to print with Brookes Print Services as they gave student discount for printing. It cost me £3 a print so a total of £15. To print my posters i had to make sure they had a resolution of at least 150 and were in pdf format.
Formatting and adding the text
The next stage of my project was to format my posters correctly so that they would print to the best resolution possible. I had to export them from the sketchbook program I was using and import them into illustrator so that i could edit the text onto the image. By using illustrator it meant I could use the font ‘voyager grotesque’ that I had already chosen, to write my slogans easily. I would then be able to export the image in the correct format so that it would be ready for printing. Illustrator was a good program to use as I already knew how to use it which meant i didn’t waste any time formatting the text. I think now that the text is on the posters they look a lot more finished and professional. I think now i have managed to bring out some of the strongest colours in the poster and used it for the text it has finished the posters well. Any negative space that previously looked a bit too empty now appears more deliberate and the space looks well thought out.
Requirements for the exhibition
For the exhibition my final 5 posters will be printed A2 size and framed. The frames don’t have a border so won’t be any bigger than the A2 sized piece of paper. An A2 sized piece of paper measures 42cm across so in total I will need around 2.5m in width of space as I am hanging my posters alongside one another. I don’t need anything other than the correct amount of wall space.
3/5 of the Final Designs
These are the final three out of a total of five posters i have produced for my piece in the exhibition. They took me 5 days in total to complete these 3 with an extra day for tweaking parts i wasn’t happy with. I am pleased with them and i think although they are very different in terms of composition and colour schemes they work well alongside each other. I feel like because there is black in a number of the posters it brings them all together. I think if i were to have more time to work on them i would have put more detail onto the silhouettes in the first image, would have added another element to the middle poster and would have addd more detail to the buildings in the third. Although I have not yet added the text and once I have done this I may not feel the need to add more detail to the posters.
Feedback From Karl
Today i had another progress review with Karl. He reinforced the importance of choosing the right font to work well with my posters. He said i was working at a good pace as i have 3/5 of my posters completed and if i continue to work at the same rate i will be finished in plenty of time. One way Karl said i could improve my work was to produce more evidence of the development of my idea. I could do this my taking screen grabs of the production of my posters and creating a sheet for them.
Karl also began to discuss my requirements for the exhibition. I decided that buying frames would be a good idea as it would give my posters a more professional feel and after all the hard work behind their production it would make them appear a lot more finished.
Developing backgrounds
To develop my backgrounds further i decided to come up with a variety of backgrounds that can be used in my posters. I developed different colour schemes so that they could be used in lots of different posters. It was very simple to make them and i think they’re effective as they look like galaxy scenes. It’s a simple way of making the backgrounds more exciting as in some of my posters theres a lot of space which is taken up by a background. I could add more detail by adding more shading which would create a more dramatic effect. I could also increase the contrast of the existing colours on the posters which would create the same effect.
I looked at the Soviet Union propaganda posters because they were all about the space race. They have me ideas to do with the composition but not so much the colours as these posters are mainly in red, blue and white as they are to do with communism.
Soviet Union Propaganda posters pinterest board
As well as looking at posters that were designed for space travel I also looked at vintage travel posters. They gave me lots of ideas in terms of composition and the use of different colours. I learnt about the effect of using warm and cool tones together as well as how important the right font is to finish the poster off.
Retro Travel Posters Pinterest Board
This board helped me with the retro-futuristic style i was going for with my project. There are lots of different examples of this style with some being more modern than others. I have realised this is due to the finish of the poster. For example the posters that appear to be more 'retro' than 'futuristic' have a paper like texture to them and the font that has been used is more dated and 'art-deco' like. On the other hand the more 'futuristic' looking posters have a much cleaner, sharp finish.
Space Travel Pinterest board link
The font
I decided that to achieve the finish I want on my posters and the futuristic feel I am going to use a different font to the one I created myself. I searched and researched through a variety of fonts that fit with the theme of my work and i found one called 'voyager grotesque' which looks exactly what I want. By using a font that I can download onto illustrator it means I will be able to edit the size much easier as well as changing the colour. It will also increase the speed of the production of my prints as I can quickly type out the text I want and alter it if I need to. The font I have chosen works a lot better with my images than the one I designed as it fits with the 'retro-futuristic theme'.
Printing
Today i spoke to Ruth about the requirements for my printing. The resolution will need to be at least 150 pixels/inch and the measurements for the piece of paper are 16.53 x 23.39 inches.
2/5 Final posters
These are 2 of the final posters for my exhibition. I still need to add the text to them but as I have already decided what font i want to use and what my slogans are, I don’t imagine it will take me too long. The next stage will be printing my posters.
Drawing people
This was the first poster where I included people in greater detail than a silhouette so I had to find a way of making them the right proportions and size compared to one another. To do this i used the card collage i did as a reference for the shape and height of the two figures. I used a secondary source to reference the colours and where the shadows would be on the two people. I achieved this amount of detail by using up to 50 different layers which eventually made up the two images. The process of including people was lengthy but it was effective as it included something that none of the other posters i have created have. If I were to do it again I would have included more references of the clothing to speed up the process when i was editing digitally. Taking my own reference photos might have made the images more accurate so that i could place the light exactly where i wanted it to fall on the image.