Wednesday, 13 March 2019

OUGD603 - Hidden Figures - Adding Graphics


After adding a more dynamic style of text, we still felt the poster designs were lacking a graphic element.

We began thinking about what else we could do to finish the poster off nicely.

We thought about including some sense of emotion/empathy/feeling to the poster. People with autism can really struggle with their emotions, and can feel really deeply.

We started looking at some basic imagery relating to emotion;
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The same recurring theme kept coming up - faces. I felt it could be a nice touch if we added a face onto the poster in some sort of way.

We were quite drawn to the plain, outlined faces.

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We liked the simplistic element of the graphics and felt it could work well with a more text-based poster.

We decided to incorporate all these elements together to try them out;


Instantly we were drawn to how this looked. It was striking and eye-catching, yet simplistic in nature.

The idea is that the symptoms can be 'hidden' behind a seemingly happy, 'normal' person.

This is why the symptoms are placed behind the face, with the face placed over the top as
'shield' as such.

We tried this out with the other symptoms, in some different colourways;
  
  


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