OUGD503 - An Act of Faith poster design

Ross Williams, one of the BA Photography tutors came into our studio and explained that he needed a poster designing to display some images and a small amount of text. I contacted him to speak about the brief. After a few email's we decided to meet up for a coffee and talk through what he wanted.

He had no real specific idea about how he wanted the design except to make sure that the images were the focal point and were not overshadowed by too much colour or pattern. 

I started by looking online at other posters which focus primarily on image. This gave me some ideas for interesting ways to lay the poster out. I did a few sketches to help me get my head around how I laid out all the type, a few of which are shown below.

I then started working on Indesign, experimenting with grids, typefaces and layout. I sent Ross 4 of my favourite versions but below I have displayed all of the variations that I made.

I explained which poster was my favourite and why an Ross agreed with me straight away. He didn't ask for any revisions whatsoever. We are currently discussing the best way to print and display the posters. Below is the poster design we decided upon.