At the very beginning of this project I had to select an article from New York Times. I Chose the article "The Devils you Know: Three 'Spiderman' Villains Return in no way home. The entire article was a collection of interviews, and I was tasked to make a poster design using 200 words from the article to incorporate into my work.
This was rather difficult due to the nature of the article I selected, due to the context being that it's interviewing three people. All of my designs for the first version weren't very interesting visually, so on my first attempt I made the font big and bold at times. That wasn't good in terms of design, so progressively over the next iterations I changed the font and font size which lead to there being more and more empty space and had to organize my text in a way where the empty space seemed intentional.
The following Version I was allowed to remove text as I saw fit as well as manipulate the size of text. This immediately opened up avenues for me, All variants I designed for this version of the posters would feature an enlarged title, a number three, and enlarged names of the actors. First batch of this attempt didn't really have variation and thus was difficult to establish a hierarchy, so I would shrink down the text for less attention grabbing text.
On the third Version of these posters, we were finally allowed to incorporate colors and effects. I was immediately perplexed and stumped with this because I am unfamiliar with typography let alone In-Design as a creation software. I was unsure what I was allowed todo let alone what I could even do in terms of "distortion" of the text. The colors to me were the easiest part, I knew from the very beginning since this article relates to comic book media I would use traditional comic book colors: Red Blue and Yellow. The designing process for this poster was infuriating due to how unclear it was to me, but after looking at a few examples provided I had more of a slimmer of what I could do. Originally, I had made the entire background yellow and I would highlight parts of text that I felt were of importance with by making the first letters Red sometimes blue. In some designs I had all the letters cast a drop shadow, in others I just applied a drop shadow to the three and villains. I was then told that the yellow was pretty harsh and I too thought that it didn't come out as well as I thought it would. So in future renditions I completely removed the yellow except for in one where I would use it sparingly and I focused more on the red and the blue and what little I knew I could pull off with the effects.
