Drafting My Final Poster

Today we did a review of our 100 sketches for the typology poster in the studio. We left our pages out on the desks and then walked round to circle things we liked and leave feedback, it was really so helpful to see everyone else's work and how they're piecing everything together. From the feedback I got I could see that a lot of people had said they liked the drawings which showed people wearing the rope garments, and also the ones which had a bit of a sense of humour to them. These too subjects definitely seemed to intertwined and got a good reaction from people which is nice to see as I would like for my final product to be humorous. 

From this feedback I then sketched three ideas of what my final product could look like, including different ideas around composition, theme and the idea they're trying to portray. The first one is simply a list of 24 ways in which to use rope, with a title at the top. The vignettes were a few of my favourites selected with no running theme arranged in quite a close way. Although I liked this I wasn't sure if it made enough sense or looked affective enough that it would make sense to a random viewer. 

The second design was a list of 24 ways to use rope done in a look-book style, with the subtitle of Autumn/Winter 16' at the bottom just to give it some more context. Then I sketched all the sample images that showed people wearing the rope in some way. I personally think this one is the most coherent as the vignettes have not only the common theme of including rope but also have been further narrowed down to include only the fashion items, making them look a lot less jumbled. 

The last design was a rough sketched outline of a department store style building, in which I was planning to arrange the different sketches into clothing categories such as 'womenswear' and 'accessories' into different rooms or sections. Whilst doing this I realised how hard it was to first of all, split them into categories (some such as dental braces don't fit well into ANY category), and second of all it was hard to split it into male and female as most things were unisex. In principle this ones a good idea but maybe doesn't quite lend itself to the vignette style or the particular theme I've been given. 

I think overall I have decided to go with the second idea which is the look book style poster. This one communicates the idea the best and is something I would display. Now I'll do more experimentation with different characters and fashion items to include on the poster as I realised theres wasn't quite 24. Then I also need to narrow down what materials will be used and on which background.