Historical Quotes
Project Overview
Project Details
This was a personal challenge based off of a Linkedin Learning Course. The challenge was to create a type-only poster to practice font design and the interactions between fonts and color.
Design Goals
Create 3 unique type-only posters based on 3 different historical quotes. These poster must be eye-catching and clear to engage the audience enough to bring interest to the fictional student showcase.
Role:
Lead Designer
Timeline:
3 weeks for all deliverables
Defining the Client
Since this was a personal project, my first task was to create a client for my design. After brainstorming, I created a Museum Curator who was in charge of running an exhibition of Student work. This student showcase would feature works of art that visually represented historical quotes.
Discovery of Design Problem
Since the showcase would be visual representations of historical quotes, the Curator wanted a design that put all the focus on the quote itself. She initially tasked me to create 3 type-only posters each displaying a quote used in the showcase, and one of the posters needed the show details on it.
Design Process
Starting Process: The Power of Mood boards
Before I created the initial design for each poster, I created a mood board to determine the emotion, feeling, and potential color pallete I wanted to work with.
Henry Ford's Quote
A.A Milne Quote
Cicero Quote
Initial Concepts
My goal was to create 3 inital designs for each poster and then get feedback from my sister to reduce down to one final design. This was a challenge for some of the posters, since I had a clear direction I wanted to go in and coming up with two more unique designs was tricky.
Henry Ford Inital Designs
Since my theme was industrial, I attempted to work solely in a black and white gradient and typewriter style fonts or industrial style fonts. My personal favourite were the two on the right, because the gradients added a dramtic theater flair that worked with the design.
A.A Milne Initial Design
For this one I had 4 designs, because I made subtle color shifts to one that I thought worked better with the design, but I wanted to present both just in case. Since Winne-The-Pooh was initial a childrens book that had water color features, I wanted to mimic that feeling in these designs. I also played around with a cheeky non-illustration of Eeyore referencing my original drawing for the quote in my Quote book.
Cicero Initial Design
For these designs, I tried to be more experiemental with the type and what counts as an illustration. However in some cases it became too busy or didn't properly represent the historical time. This was also the poster I had planned to add the showcase details to and I wanted to find the proper balance of each.
Check out these pdfs for a clearer color definition for these designs.
Feedback
Final Design
After a few tweaks to each design these are my final 3 posters.
Results
As this was a personal project, I wasn't able to receive solid results for this project. However, this was the first project I posted on my new instagram, and it performed fairly well there so I think these designs were a success.
