Coastal poster designs

Poster creations

for my final piece in graphic design I was asked to make either a poster or an interactive leaflet, as you can tell by the heading I chose to make a poster advertising Llandudno, one to young people and another to families. The main difficulty I faced was creating 2 separate designs differentiating towards the 2 target audiences.

first poster design

for my first design i wanted to find a form of local landmark in the area to get my inspiration. As i didn't want to make a piece based around the pier's and focus onto the natural landscape of the Llandudno area, i chose an image of a cliff like area near to Llandudno. But that was only part of the design that had to be achieved.

Now all i had to find was inspiration to make an actual design for the poster. i remembered of a particular style of art which uses illustrator onto photographs, making them more interesting but due to the fact that the last time i saw work similar to what i was thinking about was made months, if not years ago, the issue was finding the work to relate to so you can understand what my initial ideas for the creation of my work is from.



Although it is mainly reserved for zombie like dipping bright coloured flesh and/or white text on some sort of galactic and/or natural themed image i liked the difference between the realistic and the cartoon or thin white text. But as i felt that the look of these didn't really link to the theme of coast very well, i felt that by using the pen tool to make white edges on the contours of the cliffs would be interesting and with little or no text would further create curiosity.

Although this Is a picture of a landmark of Llandudno, as you can tell it very hard to tell that it is of Llandudno, so of course a simple thing that i have to change is to add text. I want to keep the text as minimal as possible as so the curiosity of the viewer will last them until they get home, whether it is in 10 minutes or 3 hours, in order to make this possible i have chosen to simply put "Llandudno" in a simple font that expresses little to the view. I wanted to make the text thin and elongated this will just be for aesthetic prepossess.

secondary poster design

following the inspiration of the usage of white lines standing out from the photographs, i felt that by looking at my photographs i found one in which i photographed a local map used by tourists. I felt that by using the pen tool again and drawing in the lines of the roads of the map i could create an interesting and abstract look to the poster.

By using the pen tool on the roads and only the roads i found that i created a very unique effect, but as the maps roads were (add colour of the roads) i wanted to make it stand out more and all the effects that i could think of took away from the poster. I came to the realisation that i could use another photograph of the Llandudno area to create a creative effect.

by using a photograph of a small of the only jetty in Llandudno, it not only acts as landmark but as it its the only one there it will remind the viewer of the location and the the poster and vies-verso. It also allows the lines to stand out and doesn't take away from the overall image, it also allowed text to be used on it again in white so it all ties together. I feel that this advertises to families as the interesting design would create interest in the minds of children as well as the parents.

third poster design

After seeing my 2nd poster design, Steve suggested i should do a more detailed version using the ordinance survey maps of the area, buts as i didn't want to just make one exactly the same so as the roads on the ordinance survey maps look different compared to the local tourist one. I decided to use different line thicknesses to distinguish the different importance of the roads.

As again i wanted to make the lines stand out from the lines to stand out from the photographs i wanted to use a photograph but rather than an open landscape or any sort of open shot i wanted to go with a more intimate feel and use one of my close ups or the rusted areas around the jetty as the random details that are naturally produced by the clinging of seaweed and various other sea plant life.

As with my other posters i think the simple illustration of a certain area or object is simply not enough to advertise the area of Llandudno well enough so by adding "Llandudno" along with the photograph advertises the simplistic beauty of the area, as i feel the location not only looked beautiful but the people around they were friendly and not troubled by trivial matters like we are. so the simplicity of the poster expresses the same.