"About Me" |
The concept of this piece was simply to describe me. Each component included was selected because it is meant to create a more complete description. The main image, the sunset over the mountains, was picked because it displays my love for the outdoors and nature. The typography on this picture depicts the importance I place on my faith, while it's transparency allows the viewer to form a connection between the background image and the text. The pictures on the bottom of the image (from left to right) depict my love for music, my friends, kids/teaching, and my fiance.
The composition of this piece also describes my personality. I enjoy organization and am a planner at a heart. Since this is such a large part of who I am, I decided to use one primary image, while putting secondary images in boxes in a line at the bottom of the graphic. I also used an actual line to separate these smaller images from the large image at the top. This was done to guide viewers' attention from the top down, and then allow them to easily switch focus to go from left to right. The color of the line represents one of my favorite colors, although, looking back, I think it may have been better to take a blue-hue from the mountain picture could have been applied to the line in order to for a connection between the line and the photographs used. Having the typography on top is meant to show hierarchy-that my faith is the most important aspect of my life and everything else stems from that. This is why all of the smaller images are aligned together on the bottom of the page, giving a clear end to the image.
I also attempted to follow golden sections and not center focus. The text and sunset occur on the top third of the poster, while the smaller images are on a portion of the lower poster that is less than half of the poster as a whole. In short, I attempted to use unequal spacing and placement of lines to enhance the visual appeal of the poster.
After reading a section of the textbook on alignment, I would go back and change the typography so it is all left-aligned to provide more consistency. I was not aware that "stair-stepping" font is off-limits in the world of design.