Blogger colors gotta hate them, anyways these are my final radial posters for type. Radial kicked my butt this week and I'm not sure if I exactly accomplished anything I wanted to. Again I searched the internet for hours for good examples of radial posters and found close to none. The first poster was inspired by the geometric posters I found on Kim Beckmans flickr. From here I played with squares, circles and eventually ended with triangles just to make it a little edgy. The type was hard to place so that it would still come off a circle but at the same time be sort of spacey. I finally needed to play with colors and wanted to use bright colors to contrast a dark black background. I think I have a pattern of bright colors considering the color scheme of my Axial posters also. After a little more fidgeting with the poster I came up with the color scheme I wanted to use. The stupid logos were making me angry and looked dumb so I just threw them at the bottom and called it a day. The second poster was one huge STRUGGLE. I must have started/edited/rearranged/stopped/deleted/remade at least 10 different poster designs. I was never happy with any of them and would get frustrated and move on. I wanted to incorporate a circle into the design and thought more about what is a circle and thats where I was led to the circle graph. It took a little time making it and deciding the size of the pieces and where to leave it blank. Although the large text does not come from a center of a circle or axis, I am ready to fight it... or change it. I continued with the circle graph theme and added the color circles below it. I'm not sure how successful this poster will be but I'm happy with the way it came out especially with all the stress that was behind it.
Inspiration:I saw this type wheel which led me to the pie graph.
Final radial posters:
UPDATED: After the whole sophomore VC class got there butts handed to them on a platter at critique, we all knew we needed to start over with radial. The pie graph seemed to be the poster that was working best out of my two so it was the one I concentrated on first. The key text needed to be changed and the text within the circle wasn't working. After rearranging the necessary text, I created a texture within the graph of the numbers they represent and then within the key used to show what these numbers meant.
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