OUGD405 Initial Poster Designs

OUGD405 Initial Poster Designs

Today I had to quickly produce a series of posters for the 'Cell Phone Symphony'. This was a symphony created by using only cell phones in the mid 90's. It was don't by simultaneously ringing the phones in a room and attempting to create some kind of musical form. The poster in my mind had to relate back to this era and the glitchy technology time of the 90's, so perhaps incorporate a some pixels and distortion into the work. Also I had the idea of using phone numbers as well given the fact the whole thing was about phone calls and cell phones. 

Here are my final three designs which I aimed to match that 90's theme quite literally. I used an old typeface which was very text edit related and kind of reminded me of the Matrix. I also managed to incorporate pixels from the screen with some random perspective photographs off the screen. The reason I chose these colours as well was because I wanted to use a simple CMYK format which could be found in many simple and refined designs.

Here is the feedback I received from my initial ideas. Some of the key points are listed.

• Why these colours?
• Why this typeface?
• Why did you use a conventional grid?

I was un aware that I used a conventional grid in these designs but I feel the other questions can be easily answered. These points will help me further improve my designs.