Sunday 27 November 2011

Soviet poster Assessment


This is what I have come up with from my research and design ideas.
Soviet/Russian 1940s styled poster.

Images:

Bird: The bird that i have used is the current Twitter logo, I have made the twitter bird a striking logo by adding lines that originate from a singular point and expand to the bird, by using the gradients on these lines it further in forces that the bird is coming towards you in a sticking fashion. The bird is my main and vertically central image on my posters which to an audience would instantly recognise as Twitter.

Stars: I have used the main big star to give a more russian look/feel to my poster, by having it off the page it looks as if it could be a stamp and further in forces the soviet look. I have also featured another smaller star to balance my text as without it the text looked out of place and a sharp right angled turn on the page in which i did not want.

People: The people symbolise twitter as a group and coming together for a cause in which twitter does as it is a social media site where people talk and socialise together. The image that I have used looks bold and strong as if they are staving towards something, this is also used in existing 20th century russian posters where they have people reaching towards a goal much like the cosmonaut reaching towards the stars.

Hash key sign: The hash key image works extremely well here, russian posters use all sorts of odd shaped shape and designs, the hash key also reminds me of powerlines something which would fit into this poster to show power, the hash sign for twitter represents categorising and works with the search tool found on twitter in which via searching the word with the hash tag becomes the most relevant term.

Text: The text that I had decided to use in the end after playing around with different designs was: Tweet, Twitter, Trends, IOS, Android and SMS. I have chosen these specific words as when trying out different design layouts the words worked well together, the IOS, Android and SMS are all ways in which you can use twitter.

Old style and others: I have added a grain to the edges of the page to make it seem older it also roughens the poster and changes the colours so that it looks more like a soviet poster. The staggered bars of colour are found in a lot of propaganda posters and symbolise anything from the japanese flag to sun rays.

Faults: I have found a few faults with this poster after I had printed it out at A3 size.
1st. The small star touches the line in between the tweet and twitter text.
2nd. Where all the points of the meet the white line shows through the where it should not.
3rd. I would like to Skew the IOS.SMS.ANDROID text to match the lines that it is on.

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