A2 poster and illustrations

[Chris]

Thanks guys


The poster isn't really religious as such, it's a semiotic play on the name of the library (which is St. Peter's Library). St Peter is well known for being well read and is often depicted with a book and a key (which denotes that reading is the key to knowledge) so using the library's religiously based name as a starting point I used the image of the mitre (which is the Pope's ceremonial hat) to take the place of the British crown on the original keep calm poster to represent a symbol of power - a relation to the phrase "knowledge is power". The colours are obviously a personal preference, I like them myself and brown and blue are a well known and generally effective combination. I do appreciate what you've said though and it's made me think; a poster should be almost instantly effective at getting across it's message and if you didn't understand it then that means other people won't either, which in turn means that my poster isn't doing it's job properly!!

I think you're on the right track with that. Yeah there are a lot of good messages to be found in the poster itself, I mean you wrote a whole paragraph on what you meant it to be interpreted as. But the way I felt about it, there's so much that people would have to know and understand to be able to gain anything from the poster itself. Granted the poster is probably going to be displayed at the school, where art students will see it, and most likely get most of the messages. People here, however, probably wouldn't be as prone to picking those pieces out and putting them together, IE the name of the library, and the separate items of information that go into the actual hat.

I think you did a good job though. In terms of minimalism, you hit the nail on the head. If you want me to be perfectly honest, the poster is for an art school's library, which means we aren't your target audience. So suffice it to say we probably aren't the best group of people to base your critique on as far as how effective the poster is message-wise. :P

I wasn't going to post because I didn't want to seem shrewd or get in the way, but I like your reasoning, so I figured I would let you know. :P

Nicely done elev.