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Year 2 done ✅

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Final outcomes

My final series of posters for the Mini Learning Agreement brief.

Overall, I am pleased with the final outcomes. I pushed myself into unfamiliar territory, learned new techniques digitally, and experimented with lighting, photography, and different mediums.

I wanted the pieces to be busy but not overwhelming to catch and maintain the viewer's attention. I used excerpts from interviews where the models expressed their experiences with language and gender. I also incorporated elements of each person's respective flag into the design.

I had a lot of fun designing these posters and I'm excited to push myself to see what I am capable of again in the future.

I was inspired to play with different analogue mediums by my research into Andreea Robescu and I was inspired by Aries Moross to play with different elements of photography in a more digital aspect to make them completely different from the raw files. The typography in the painted aspects were also inspired by both artists' styles.

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Model three

All assets used for the final outcome

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Model two

All assets used for the final outcome

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Model one

All assets and images used in creating the final outcome

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Model three: final outcome

Due to the refinement of the other posters, I don’t have as many different variations of this poster as I felt my system for the poster series felt quite set to me. I enjoyed the use of colours in this piece and incorporating the face into one of my designs as the other model photos chosen didn’t contain faces.

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Model one: final outcome

After some feedback regarding the text size, some colouring and shadows from the paper tears, this is the final outcome for one of my poster designs.

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Model Two: Poster Outcome

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Model Two: Style Experiment Two

Using the colour halftone and burlap effects

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First poster collage attempt

I combined the three different style experiments into one poster to represent the distinct and unique ways people present their genders and that it's not one way at any given time.

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Model one: Style Experiment 2

I used halftone and burlap textures to create these outcomes

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Model two: style experiments

Experimenting with textures and type.

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Model one: style experiments

Using a completely different style but the same colours representing the gender-fluid flag. The interview transcript was used inside the model's form.

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Model two: experiment one

Using coloured card to create shapes along with pens to create colourful elements in the background

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Model one: experiment three

I focused more on the elements I liked from the other experiments and looked at the form and different areas I wanted to highlight

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Experiment number two

Just experimenting with different paintings in the background - the colours haven’t been altered just yet as this is only an experiment.

I think I like the less consistent and more fluid background. It’s less overwhelming while still taking up a lot of visual space.

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Model one - experiment one

Using a printout and a lightbox, I painted a rough idea of the text from the interview with the model. I used colours from the genderfluid flag (pink, purple and blue) in the experiment (black and white which are also in the flag are already present in the photo). I used Adobe Illustrator to turn the text and colours into vectors, corrected the colours and cleaned up the text a little.

Ultimately, I feel it is too similar to Andreea Robescu's style so I will try different things in future experiments.