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Hazel's Portfolio
School Poster Expedition
My class was given the opportunity to design 40 x 60 inch posters to be pasted and displayed near the city train station! Here is my submission. The theme was representation.
FIRST IDEAS.
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The concept is that I wanted to represent independent creators all over the world who need more attention.
I would achieve this by finding local creators
and linking to their content with QR codes.
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The panel who I presented the idea to said that the idea was great, but the actual poster was well below what I should be doing........The QR codes worked though!
I do agree though, besides from the colour pallet, these designs are not very pleasing to look at - much less stare at long enough to scan a QR code.
Another issue is that when I was asked if I was actually enthusiastic about these creators, I found a hard time actually saying I was (I don't lie very often and I didn't that time.)
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The podcast and the band mentioned here are actually really good and I don't know why I said I didn't like them. Go check them out. The artist never got back to me, so I couldn't even use her QR code for the final piece.
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Bottom line was I needed to redo my work. I needed to find more creators. I needed to make something that I was enthusiastic to present.
FINAL DESIGN
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2-3 days later and I submitted an entirely new poster.
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To fix the issue with me not being passionate about it I thought about how if I want to show enthusiasm in my work it has to feature something which I enjoy. I enjoy drawing and I'm enthusiastic about getting small names out there.
With this in mind I created a lucky dip situation; where the audience scans a code at random from this illustration of creative people engaging in creative activities. The QR code will show them an independent creator to check out.
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All of the QR code linked creators have given permission for me to promote their work. They come from the two I originally had, people on the Bristol Creatives facebook page, friends of a friend and other sources. Once again, all have given permission.
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Sad I couldn't include any cake decorators, photographers or clay makers though.
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I like the naturally made, non-traced illustrations. As clean as the others were, they didn't have much personality - or at least not my own personality.
On going project.
Check back later to see how it goes.
Photos of the poster pasted up in the wild???
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