Crit Feedback

I presented my work to the class and got feedback on it. The response was very positive and overall my poster was a success. I received a few suggestions on some minor changes that I could make to it.

• Slightly reduce the intensity of the surrounding silhouettes colours to stop them being too overwhelming for some and to make the dress stand out more. 
• Spread the coloured silhouettes out further towards the border
• Swap the colour of the text with the blue and reshuffle the colouring around the edge of the dress to prevent the purple blending in with the blue.
• Put a border around the white square to make the comic strip effect more obvious.
• Bigger lower tagline
• Possibly outline the font

I considered this feedback and made some changes to my work. Mainly I spread out the silhouettes by adding more and increased the font size. Below is the old (left) and new (right)compared.

I've made the decision to disregard the suggested changes, as when I applied them to the design they seemed to over crowd the page and this detracts from my aim to make the poster as simple and easy to understand as possible. I also do not like the size of the text. It looks too squished and less easy to read, and I much prefer it in the original version. 

My decision not to put a border around the white boxes for the text is based on it'll ruin the running theme that I have. The point of those white boxes being there is that they are the same colour as the very main background, and creates 2 effects in 1 - 1 being that a few dots have been removed in order to frame the text and 2 being it lightly simulates the comic-strip effect (where white boxes are put in the corner with text in to describe a scene or have words like "And then…"). I like the effect I've created, and adding a border to them would remove this effect.

I'm very happy with my design the way it is, and feel it is more successful in it's original state.