Graphics Week: Poetic Migration poster

During the Graphics rotation week we looked at poetry and how we could use typography to create poems/words that were visually interesting.















Still on the Poetry theme I was asked to make a 'poetic migration' poster, initially I did not really know how to interpret this theme into something visual as I didn't really know what was meant by 'poetic migration'. I took on the theme as the way in which word of mouth spread, and how stories and poems come about, which is through experience/journeys and thoughts. I focused more on the experience and journeys side of things and came up with a sort tagline, "Journeys create stories".

In terms of imagery I wanted to make a calligram, this would allow me to get across my tagline, but keeping it very visual. I kept the imagery very obvious to empathise on the 'journeys' theme. I used Adobe Illustrator and imported pictures of a boat, train and airplane to get the outline of the words in the correct shape so that they would resemble the objects intended.

I was moderately happy with my outcome as I think it has good aesthetic qualities and I was able to visually translate a message, yet I still think there is massive room for improvement, such as the train that has the word 'create' on it. I think I could have taken more time and care when drawing out the word, because the words don't actually create the shape of the train, instead the letters just sit inside the shape of the train. To avoid mistakes/imperfections like this in future I should spend more time planning ahead, experiment more so that I can produce multiple outcome variations.