Political Poster Review

Our Task was to create and design our own interpretation of  a Political Poster of the statement we come up with in our small groups. We had to base our designs on one of the 7 Art Styles that we looked at previously to show a better understanding of them and how they can influence media we see around us.  

The research I carried out was look at images/photographs at previous posters relating to politics and seeing how they attract attention but also still get their intentional message across. I also looked at the different Art Styles and how they look so near but crowded at the same time while thinking about I could use that in my own design.  What I did was look at the colours that represent the Parties the most without keeping it around one like I did in my first designs. I then proceeded to find information about why people remember who David Cameron is and what effect he has on the public. And my results were that the only reason was that he had involved in a number of events that had got people talking such as the talk about removing the NHS. It helped me to see that when choosing an art style that you don’t have to have one particular design, that you can turn into whatever you want to suit the theme and message your putting across. When I first started my design didn’t link to politics so the public were aware, only I did. So I asked a peer of what I should do and he suggested that I use shapes to visualise what message I’m trying get across and this linked nicely with the Swiss Style because I added text which I need changed to different fonts to make it more original as well as more artistic. The font I chose is in a style that is suited to the Art Form-Swiss Style to make it look more sophisticated but artistic at the same time. The graphics I experimented with consisted of basic shapes that visually represented a certain number or percentage. I did this because writing the whole status in words would be boring and unappealing to the audience. I  chose to use Swiss Style because of how it looks messier but when you see it from a professional perspective you see that all it in a linear pattern inside the grid.  The only issue I came across was choosing the correct colours without keeping it based on only one political party. At first at I used the colours blue and green but then realised that was relating only to the conservative party. It was quite difficult than I first imagined due to how much you have to put into the process to get it to how you wanted it but still following a art style that you like.  Overall my final design is better than expected due to experimenting with the different styles and making it into my own creation. I liked how the background incorporates the font type by making it more visual to the audience that it’s aimed at.