Thursday, September 18, 2008

Critique with senior and junior

during the critique with jessica and alicia they understood my posters and thought that it was a clear representation of the hispanic culture and the the copy was too the point and understandable.

in the pinata poster they liked the repetition in the copy of the a sound in "vota for a" they thought it made it more humorous, and therefore more engaging. They also liked that the little pinatas not only related to the hispanic culture but to the voting process as well. So the ideas did not seem to unrelated. They suggested that the background color be changed to contrast more with pinatas and make them stand out. They thought an unobtrusive background would be best. They also liked the idea that tyler had to hang them and thought it would put them in a more natural context. We talked about the possibility of a party scene in that background to serve this point but thought it would destract too much from the point, and to make total sense with the copy there would have to be two parties going on in the background adding unnecessary noise.

The lucha poster was also recieved well. They got it and agreed that the type should be moved back to its original place on the poster serving as a chest area for the luchador. They thought that the Luchador could use some color to make it more engaging and make the black vote stand out more against the black outlines. I decided to do this by making water color swatches, scanning them in, and uncerimoniously cutting them into fill shapes that didn't quite match with the drawing to give it a less precise quality. That we agreed would work well in this application because it was more remenicent of their cultural landscape.

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