My Infographic Poster

As soon as I got my sketchbook, I started to doodle thumbnail ideas for my poster. These went from very basic - how the text will look, and where - to more detailed as I got more of an idea. I wanted my design to mean something and link to the words on the paper. I chose the quotes 'Never start with a clean piece of paper' and 'Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new'. I thought I could play with these quotes and designs more.

I, then, blew up the ideas I like the more on my 'thought' page. This helped me to get to grips with what I had thought up, and see which one I enjoy the most.

The first was the top left design, where a sentence stops and the word surrounding it completes the sentence. I think it's one of the more complicated ones, which catches your eye. This was inspired by this 'wreck the journal' page, one similar to one I had when I was younger.

The next idea was ripping the paper. I though about when I make mistakes on paper I tend to rip up the page, and start on a fresh one. What if you turned those pieces over, wrote or drew the back and stuck them together? You'd get a messy, disorientated look which I thought was unique and clever. However, to put it together digitally would be hard, and to physically put it together would be a risk because it wouldn't have that attractiveness.

Next, I liked the idea of smudging ink blots. I thought of smudging words and using fingerprint smudges to create the messy look, while it possibly being pleasing to the eye, too. I knew putting this together in Procreate would be fun as there's so many brushes out there for this kind of effect. However, it would be minimalistic.

Finally, my most classic idea was a marked poster. You know when you've stayed up until 1AM to complete an essay that's due in the morning, and you get it back and it's more red pen than actual paper? I thought of this for the mistake quote, and it'll be full of mistakes. Just to give effect. Again, minimalistic but I would blow up the text, and make it easy to read (despite the grammar corrections).

I went with my final idea, which turned out like this. I'm happy with the outcome as it's simple, but looks really good and I like the font.