Final Posters

This is my final poster for my main idea, and I am very pleased with how it came out. I stuck with a green colour scheme to reflect the theme of food recycling as opposed to general recycling. I think the clock base and numbers are very unambiguous and this is definitely one of the highlights of this poster. My only issues with this piece are that some of the numbers' details are lost and you can't decipher what some of the numbers are made out of unless the image is very large. Numbers such as the five, made out of fusilli, has lost the detail and merge together, and the two made out of peas, as the peas I used were frozen and so lacked any vivid colour. Also some of the numbers are out of proportion with each other, such as the grapes and bagels are practically the same size, but if I had to do this project again I would do the same thing, as it is how the image is tied together and it makes sense in the context it's in.
The one main problem I had with this image is the clock face. I couldn't get an image appropriate for it and the doughnut I photographed didn't work well at all as it had a rough texture and wasn't very spherical. To remedy this I turned down the opacity, then put the image of the bagel featured in the number 8 behind it, to make it look more realistic. I am pleased with how this turned out. I decided to change the 'Time to recycle food' font as I felt with my final draft of the idea, there were too many fonts and colours going on and it made it seem unprofessional, so I tried to keep all the fonts the same and stick to a running theme. I think to make it more professional and to give it a less childish effect, I think next time I would add some form of shadowing so the numbers don't look as out of place. I kept all the BANES information like out correspondent told us to, such as the council 'tick' and the BANES logo etc. Again I think this makes it look more professional and formal as opposed to just an image.



This is my final poster ideas revolving around general recycling. It is made using all my own images, bar the 'E' as it wasn't possible to create, and I didn't have enough time to find appropriate materials and trees etc. I only had a couple of issues when creating this, such as the objects I used. For example, the CD's as part of the 'B' have my reflection in, as it was the only way I could take the photograph of them face down. I tried mirroring half the CD to the other side when editing the image in photoshop but it made them look unprofessional. Also with the 'A', the tie I used was black in colour, and this paired with the black sock made the images content hard to decipher, so I used Photoshop's colour replacement tool to change the colouring of the tie to red/orange so it makes it clear what it is. One last problem was that with the 'S', I took a picture of my hairdryer but the cord/wire was too long to fit in the picture or work well, so I drew it on after wards, which worked in theory but looked unprofessional. As a whole I was pleased with the outcome, as it is obvious what the shapes spell out, and I think the colour scheme works particularly well. I included the logos for BANES, the recycle logo and BANES' tagline. I decided not to include the council's contact information as they are fairly easy to get hold of and everyone knows who they are. I think if I had to do this again I would put more thought into the writing/typeface below the letters describing what they represent. I think that it seems slightly out of place and could have been done better.