Progress and Finalization!

 Slowly and steadily finalizing my first three posters! I think the most progress I have made this week has been in terms of typography. I'm using these three posters as the outline for my next three so I'm trying to nail down the design of these first before I move onto others, that way my posters can continue to be consistent. This week I have added some more type that provides some more context and insight into the problems created by each area of pollution. I have started in the water poster with insights from the World Health Organization. The text is the same brown as the murky water to blend in with the texture and truly illustrate how these negative affects are a direct result of contaminated drinking water. Some other changes I have made this week has been adding the QR codes which will link to a google doc of resources that I have begun compiling. I have also made some of my illustrations more realized than before. I have rounded out the smokestacks and included more detail into the drawing of the leaves. 

My meeting with Franc this week has given me some more direction to strengthen my message through typography. I have made some changes with his insight to the titles on each poster, separating the elements from human right to isolate the two phrases. For example "safe drinking water is a human right" now reads as "safe drinking water" "is a" "human right." This highlights the two phrases and separates them physically by color to indicate how safe drinking water does not necessarily exist everywhere, though it is a human right. It also makes these two phrases stand out. I will also be perfecting my typography in terms of size and alignment to make sure every aspect of it benefits the poster's design and reads logically to illustrate my message as clearly as possible. I have realized how even the smallest changes can benefit the poster design by making sure that all the elements work together in relation to make sure the message comes across. 

Really excited to continue working! My hope is that these posters will be finalized this week in order to continue implementing these same compositions into the other 3! 

Poster designs below




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