This poster was themed on isolation, and was a storyboard with 12 frames. At first I attempted to come up with a story that was focused on an isolated human, but due to recent events those stories hit harder than they would normally, and I felt that I would not be able to effectively work on them given time constraints. I found that one I was able to work on was a story of an AI (OLIVIA) who runs a space station, and once an accident occurs, they are alone, forever.
In this poster I was to make a movie poster, focused on the theme of The Fear of Things that You Don’t Know. Applying principles of color theory, textual elements, Organisational principles of typography, and semiotics.
I started by making another bunch of sketched ideas:
Continuing on from my last post, I started to work on translating the first design into a final poster. I continued with the gestalt principle of closure and area making up the bulk of the monster in your mind. I played around with the sizes of the person, the parts of the monster, and placements of the various items before settling on this.
I have been designing things for a while. Well, I didn’t call it design, I called it programming, and I’ve been doing that for about 8 years.
My interests in creating things with computers started when I started at Madrona, the public school system wasn’t handling my learning disabilities well, so my parents sent me to the private system. There the principal started teaching me how to code.
From there it became an obsession, which only started to really broaden once I moved here (Although I do have a vivid memory of doing a summer camp and designing a “new Atlantis” style civilization, then prototyping a dome out of this putty stuff and Lego). Then broaden it did, TTRPGs, Board Games, Card Games, Lamps, Buildings, and everything in between. I took the Design and Visual Communication optional course at my high school and fell in love with creating.
The first design process I went through in university was to create a wallet through a design sprint. It was very interesting, and I learned a lot about my partner through this process.