Context
Researching and analysing TFL posters.
The poster is simple, with only one short sentence and detailed painting of the park.
This poster has very bright colours and big title with interesting and old looking font.
A common feature that all posters on this page have is the TFL logo or at least something that acknowledges any of the different types of the TFL. Most of them have a short introducing sentence written in big sized font. Another similarity is the bright colours on the posters that may be a factor that attract attention.
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However they all seem different when looked at. For example the top left poster has lots of details and it is very realistic, but has dull colours. In contrast the top right one is very simplistic, but has bright colours. However they both have big and intriguing fonts.
The poster on the left was probably made by made photos that were put together, where on the other hand the poster on the right seems to have been painted or something of that kind. In addition it looks quite old compared with the poster on the left.
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Also there is difference between the texts of the posters including their font and the concept. The text from the poster on the left is written in such a way as if it is speaking to the reader. On the other hand the text from the poster on the right is straightforward and to the point.
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I plan to do something similar to the poster on the left, regarding the text's concept and potentially font.
I like this poster as its bright and iterating concept. Thanks to that it may attract people passing by to take a glance at it and even think about visiting the carnival. Under the introduction " Get ready..." ,written with big sized letters to attract attention, there is short information paragraph that shows the date of the event.
London Remix Trip
Task 3
For the London Remix Trip we are going to Tate Modern and then the London Bridge. We are going to travel from Dartford to Charing Cross Station. Around that area, there are some iconic and famous places like the National Gallery, Trafalgar Square, The National Opera, Covent Garden and more.
Since our first destination is Tate Modern, which is on the South Bank, we will have to cross the Hungerford Bridge and Golden Jubilee Bridges. Famous places that we may explore on our way to Tate Modern are:
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Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, built after the original theatre burned down in 1613.
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The Golden Hinde
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The London Eye
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The Imperial War Museum
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Hayward Gallery
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Southwark Cathedral
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The London Dungeon
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SEA LIFE London Aquarium
The Golden Hinde
Golden Hind was an English galleon best known for her privateering circumnavigation of the globe between 1577 and 1580, captained by Sir Francis Drake. She was originally known as Pelican, but was renamed by Drake mid-voyage in 1578, in honour of his patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, whose crest was a golden 'hind' (a female red deer). Hatton was one of the principal sponsors of Drake's world voyage. One full-sized, still sailable reconstruction containing original pieces of the galleon exists in London, on the south bank of the Thames.
To upload these photos I sent them to my school email and the uploaded the on the computer. The first photo was taken on the Hungerford Bridge and it reminds of the letter A thats why I uploaded it on the website. I gives me ideas about creative text for the final product.
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The images show the creativeness of other designers and engineers, so that worked as an inspiration for my own final idea.
Most of the photos where taken before we got to the Tate Modern, however there were more things in the Tate than somewhere else around it.
Proposal
As my final idea I decided to do a poster that advertises the Natural History Museum. I decided to take some of the most interesting features of the Museum and put them together in one poster. So to begin I decided to do a little research for inspirations and ideas on what i can use as the foundation of my poster.
This few images show the process of my work. In my poster I plan to only animate the figure of the modern human, as that shows that we still exist and continue to move forward. To be able the figure effectively I have to draw separately, on different layers, every body part or at least those I want to animate.
Before actually beginning the production I did some sketches on how may the details of the poster look like. The human evolution one I did by using and pencil and paper, where on the other hand the Natural History Museum one was done in photoshop.
Comparison of styles
I was not inspired by any poster in particular, but by an image of the escalator in the Natural History Museum. However the poster below is an inspiration to make one bit of the poster realistic and the other to have flat colours.
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Main difference between the inspirational posters and my poster is that my poster does not have lots of details, but does not lack them too. Since I still have to add text to the poster, I plan to use the font of one of the posters or them combined, since I love combining styles and ideas.
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