I need some honest feedback on this poster I made for the upcoming semester. I'm nowhere near professional, just looking to make some weed money between my STEM classes.
Last time I posted this I was criticized for using conflicting fonts (Caviar Dreams and Bebas Neue, if anyone's curious). I've read a guide and chosen a new body font.
Let me have it, /gd/
theres nothing fundamentally wrong with it. i really dont like that serifed font you have but maybe its just me. maybe lose the rounded corners on the outermost box.
its not a necessary change but dont be afraid to play with how large and where the fonts are in your solid colored boxes. flip through an issue of Wired magazine and notice how they can abuse that sort of thing to a neat effect.
>>317207
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>>317207
>coming to a dystopian 7/11 window near you
keep it simple, use a grid, let things breath
use whatever style you want, just follow basic principles
>>317214
mate that's worse than op's
you didn't follow basic principles yourself
>inconsistent alignment
>inconsistent tracking
>shitty colour scheme
>almost 0 hierarchy
>>317212
Thanks for the feedback, I've been staring at those rounded corners too.
>>317214
Did you just make that? Or is my layout a lot less original than I thought? Thanks for the feedback though, I'll look into grids.
Truthfully, though it may sound counter intuitive or ~anti-design~, I want to go for a look that non-gd normies associate with gd expertise. Anything too purposefully bad or out-of-the-box and they'll sneer their noses since they don't have the capacity to appreciate that kind of stuff. Pic related.
Does anyone get me? Is this a good approach or is it a more "they'll know good design when they see it" thing?
>>317222
Here's a general rule of thumb I've picked up in commercial art: If you do your job correctly, nobody's going to notice.
Pay attention to revision critiques; once they start nit-picking, you're about where you're going to end up. I usually go with two drastically different drafts, saying "now these are just [drafts/previews/thumbnails] but here are two different directions we can go".
>>317207
Your "more" there on the end is getting pretty close to the edge. Your exterior margin set-up is on point until that "e". To me, this looks like a printing error but it's on purpose...? I'd change it if I were you, if only to establish unified exterior margins.
I also hope this is set up to bleed properly, because if this is the whole thing, I'm worried it might get sliced off if you move to smaller sized prints, let's say for a flyer as an example.
A 33"x45" print for a college student is going to cost you a bit if you get more than one of these things printed on any decent quality paper. Do you plan on mounting it too? Maybe it'd be worth it to invest in a higher quality polymer canvas print like those vinyl ones they make for trade shows...? Up to you, OP.
>>317207
Something about the open composition on the right makes it look like it's all going to fall off the page. Dunno if that's what you want or not but that's my first impression
>>317207
Your poster makes no sense, use you brain. Think about what message you want to sent.
>>317222
> I want to go for a look that non-gd normies associate with gd expertise. Anything too purposefully bad or out-of-the-box and they'll sneer their noses since they don't have the capacity to appreciate that kind of stuff. Pic related.
Yeah sure because vaporwave is such good “design”...