Final Visual Diagram Construction

Some scamps for final poster and rough final diagram layout

Once I'd selected appropriate imagery for each of my ideas I scanned them in and began arranging them on photoshop. This meant changing the sizes of a few of the images so they all fit together without it looking overly complicated. I was aware I was going to have arrows occasionally overlapping, however I wanted to minimise the effect of the poster feeling claustrophobic; if there was too many arrows crossing over one another and without a clear sense of organisation the 'links' within the poster could become in danger of being overlooked or too hard to read, therefore dismissing the entire message I was trying to convey.

 

Final images for poster

Once organised I started to add the arrows using the pen tool. After all the links were down I went about choosing a font; I had a look at Jean Jullien's work to see what sorts of typefaces he used in his work as I felt they had a similar bold black line quality to the illustrations I'd used within my own work for this poster.

Jean Jullien

Whilst a lot of his font's had a slightly textured and hand-rendered feel to them I found that most of them also tended to be of a quite bold sans serif style. With this in mind I began looking through the different fonts in photoshop until I found one that I felt fit well with my illustrations.

 

Barbara Kruger

When one of my peer's saw the poster they said the font reminded them of something Barbara Kruger-esque; which I found very interesting. While Kruger dealt with often different subject matter to what I'm dealing with within my own diagram, it could be said that links could be made. She also played around with the idea of women's bodies and societies opinions and views on it. I was pleased that such a link could be made and gave my confidence in my text choice.

I also choose to go with a limited colour palette in my poster. The black and white didn't have nearly as much impact as I wanted it to have. I added pink in the background as it's a colour stereotypically associated with women. I thought about using a bold 'hot pink' due to it's often 'sexy' connotations, however opted for a softer pink as I thought it would print better and the hot pink seemed too high contrast and uncomfortable to look at in such a large quantity. 

Using a textured brush I painted the images in white to make them stand out from the pink background, as well as making the shapes in the bottom key white to balance out the black bottom heavy feel the poster had.

Final visual diagram//poster