Poster Crit.
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- paraselene0
more iconic to win in the sixth.
- phatlee0
I prefer it without the brown. Have you tried a gradient in the background or in the graphic, maybe oranges blacks and browns, I'm think volcanoes?!?!?! Dunno just a thought...
- who0
IMHO..
#1
try with an other yellow... it;s too bright
- ********0
I can't really add gradients as I want to screen print them at some point rather than just print them digitally. And as I am a screen printing noob I need to keep it simple.
I can't decide between keeping the brown or not...
Anyone else?
- mr_snuggles0
I've got nothing yet, need more coffee and meth...
- Dancer0
Ok some alternatives.
Original:
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More Iconic:
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Without the brown:
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skt
(Feb 21 06, 01:59)To me the original looks like you have thought about it the others seem as if you are trying to satisfy other peoples' requests without the same kind of thought.
I do like the original but wonder if you push it more. I am trying to think how though...
Sorry I'm not much help this a.m
- Bluejam0
without the brown (and make the lines angular rather than curved? - it's looking too soft when the process illustrated is all about friction/power...etc)
my 2pence
- Wolfboy0
That's a nice poster there skt, will you be doing one on an ox bow lake?
- ********0
That's a nice poster there skt, will you be doing one on an ox bow lake?
Wolfboy
(Feb 21 06, 02:37)Haha. I knew it would come in handy one day.
Dancer, the alternatives have simply been made more iconic by not extending the lines to the edge of the pages. I'm not sure how much more thought can be put towards that.
Bluejam, I like the curved lines and at most of this is about aethetics rather than education.
- Baskerville0
I think it should explain what subduction is, unless your audience is geologists.
My sister is a geologist and works at the Natural Environment Research Council. I could ask her what she thinks from a geologist's POV
- phatlee0
Could it look more like this, but simplified
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- phatlee0
or
- ********0
Those are nice images phatlee but I do like the idea of breaking down the idea into as simple as possible a graphic.
Baskerville, I don't think I can explain subduction fully in two lines. It would need arrows and labels and the mid adlantic rift and the sea and the mantle and stuff.
Regardless of being able to understand the process from the poster do people think it looks pretty? Would they hang it on their walls?
- paraselene0
i guess it depends on what the point is. if the point is simply an abstracted illustration of what subduction means to skt, then the audience doesn't really need to know what subduction is. perhaps a poster like this would inspire someone to look it up and find out. i'm not sure that this is information graphics, per se, rather almost a commentary on information graphics.
to my mind, the rounded lines are really suitable because they soften what is, actually, a terrifically violent and powerful cataclysmic process. but it's a process that spans *geological* timescales. meaning that, to us, the movement is practically imperceptible.
- Baskerville0
Here are three posters the same topic. I think they were designed by a group of french information designers:
- ********0
Thanks baskerville.
*Looks out crayons and pva glue.
- mr_snuggles0
here's a tee design i did about a year ago [1 in a series of 3], similar type of topic[s], but designed in a much more infographical and descriptive visual language, less abstract...
the meth is starting to kick in...
- Baskerville0
Hi Skt I asked my geologist sister this morning and she just emailed back:
"It depends what he wants to be illustrating in the posters and who his audience is. The poster illustrates subduction in a highly schematic and 'GCSE/A-level textbook' sort of way. Nevertheless it does what it says on the tin(!) and the poster can definitely be credited in portraying the process of subduction (although in only one specific geological/tectonic setting) in a way that a general audience could grasp.
You can comment on the 'coolness' of the design better than me!"
- Lesk0
i want that font! please!