Kiosk?

I saw a note on the module study guide about thinking of the third assignment as a kiosk? I dont attend lectures of workshops, its definatley a negative for me, as I seem to be missing something.

I dont think I could see my third assignment on a kiosk in a museum or more relevant location. Its to small, if you are doing something for a kiosk it should be a bit more filling, more pages, most people who go up to kiosks are usual bored or waiting, ok curious if your in a museum, but they wouldn't be satisfied with a page or so, even if it was fancy and footloose. Though the ideal for my poster would be an interactive poster at a bus terminal or train station, I would like to see that, or how about on a local hall to advertise speedating, Ive seen interactive screens in the front of banks and stores, well I've seen images of it on the web I don't think I will see much of that in my neighbourhood. Speedating is more of a word of mouth event, so would be ideal for an interactive poster on a hall enterance to advertise.

Though I wonder if I have this right? I saw a mention of kiosks? Though as I got my concept wrong the start I have to wonder, remember I was looking at the old study guide.

Talking of kiosks, I always get disapointed when I visit the science museum, they are always so slow, they still have such old kiosks, even in the technology section the kiosks are still a tad dated, I want to get my hands on one of those duel touch screens, where you can create animations with drawing with your fingers and animate them with, so simple, and minipulate endlessly, Ive seen so much on line, though I want to get my hands to one. Though as technology it is well to advance thinking for this assignment, it wouldn't work for this assignment, as they poster is good because although you may add loads of effects, it works well flat, it still remains a poster, if you could manipute it to much it wouldnt be a interactive poster just interactive. Here I go.

Assignment 3 ideas

Shadows and glows to unflattern the image.

Add sponsor tune and video.

Controls can the the large and small image of ladys- sound and size controls?

A page infront of the poster, that the user tears off.

Scroll bar for text on sign ladys holding, or moving text at the bottom- moves as you roll over?

boxes on the right could turn into buttons but thinking of having them where they slide out of the way for room for video or text?

Maybe add paper effect over the top at the end, maybe?

Might be really large file size, so preloader and a silent short sound at the start to kick the sounds I place into gear.

Nothing too over the top, still want it to be usable, I might add some little notes when you roll over elements.

Assignment 2 posters

My two posters designed for assignment 2, however only one i will take further. Proberly the first one with out the effects on it, but I prefer the second poster more, it just looks so lifelike. Oh the colour is slightly off, well more than slightly, I just quickly compressed them, but left them in cymk, I asumed they would have come out better.

When I convert into assignment 3 the interactive poster, Ill take away alot of the text, I think the amount of text on a poster was just far too much, but it was needed, though for the interactive poster there are other ways to display text which wont crowd the poster.

Recent resources

I really wanted to look into images of the housewife, especiallt as julie noted she liked the imagery of the housewife from the 1950s. I love the picture from the article through the link provided and shown below.

http://www.retro-housewife.com/good-wife-guidelines.html




















Visit this link, the 1950 images are so adorable.

http://tackorama.net/Clipart/Color/02.htm


This Link has a lot of images from the 1950s, as shown below:

http://www.fiftiesweb.com/fashion/album/50s%20clothes/slides/dress-c-54.html





I love lucy a tv program of the 1950s, these images are great, the hair!




















I like this graphic, shows a glamourous young women, dolled up, but clearly , shes spose to be a housewife. The typical imagery from the 1950s, of glam housewifes. Aprons, a lot of images Ive seen are of women in aprons. I think it was more of an american thing, women wearing pretty aprons all the time.




A link to a lot of retro clipart, good to see how they look, the housewife ones are real good.

http://www.retroclipart.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=630





Many were just line drawings, but I love line drawings, somethimes the fewer lines the better.












Flickr and other image shring networks are good for the odd image.


NOTE: MISSING IMAGES, WILL UPLOAD WHEN MY WIRELESS STOPS PLAYING UP.

Assignment 2

Since my last post I have been working on assignment 2, to date I've finished, I will post up but need to drastically optomize for blogger, but will post later on. But first I want to post up the resources that inspired me and really helped me. It really took me a while to get started as I wasn't pleased with going down a different avenue, of tv/newspaper style, I wanted glamour I wanted to do a movie style poster fir for the big screen of 1950, but however I started to warm to it half way, once I had looked a t more inspiration. I'm really pleased with the results, though I would have wanted less text as I wanted more room at the bottom for a graphic of a phone.

assignment 1 relief

Presented my posters for assignment one to Julie, went fine. She appeared to like them, though her favourite is not my favourite, she liked the third poster, which was the last one done and I didn't really spend as much time on it, maybe it was because it was more simple, though the design was one that I always had in mind to do.

Very productive meeting, we agreed for me to hand in all the work together at the end (which is great for me, less hassel) instead of instalments. We also talked about the look of the next poster for assignment 2, this was good as I wasn't sure of how to keep the speedating idea, and talk about the project on the same poster, but I believe its clearer now.

What else, oh yeh also what I should carry through to the next poster design, From the sketches I have uploaded, I had a movie poster feel in mind. However Julie has persuaded me to change this, she liked the feel of the third poster, especially with the image of the lady (from getty images), I'll use the image of the lady however, I will combine it with the style of the first poster, a tv poster. I think Ill sketch out some more ideas, with the combination.

All in all a good meeting,

Unbelievable

My posters are printed at A1, that is like so huge, they are spose to be A4, they came out great though, real good, good enough for your wall, though I wonder if its ok for the criteria.

The printer jumbled up orders so I got three massive posters, instead of three tiny posters. I mean printer as in the man printing, printing company, what a good mistake to make.

I haven't got the means to reprint at the moment, so hopefully they are ok and acceptable for assignment 1.

My posters

My posters for assignment one, though I don't think blogger is doing them justice, I don't think it can handle the quality of them. Its made the one at the bottom look blue and its faded all of them. Just to display them.


Poster one is a tv advert style, very dreamy, think bewitched/ilovelucy. Its targeting single women, the figure of the man and women are at opposites but are very visable, displaying them almost as a match, this is on purpose, to promote speed dating and the idea of meeting a match. I like the tagline I created for this one.

Poster 2, this is my favourite, this one is even more dreamy, its a movie style poster, so the layout is totally different to the first, it plays on the love story, trying to sell an experience of love, to promote speeddating, so a dizzy effect, rounded text, stong but soft. A sponged background as most movie posters have. A real dreamy poster.

Poster 3, definately one for the men, unlike the others there is no dreamyness, its replaced with facts and an informative nature, more of a newpaper/ magazine advert, the layout suggesting this effect, though like most adverts/posters for men, there has to be pretty ladys.

1950s poster design galore more more more

Mixture of flyers/posters from the 1950s.












































All illustrative, for the local advertising posters have a limit on colours, handmade type, simple printed. Some bad designs, but some are still good design for today.

1950s poster design galore more more

Theatre / entertainment Posters/ flyers:









































Made up of elabrate type, bright colours, graphics or cut out heads, Multicoloured type, no limit on colours. The location of the event is as big as the name of the event. I don't like these as much as movie posters, they come across more disorganised maybe even cheaply done.

1950s poster design galore more

More from ebay, some great examples of typical 1950s poster design.



Illustration again but more realistic illustration, bold titles and names, bright colours, angled type, sponged/watercolour backdrops.

1950s poster design galore

You have to admire ebay, they are more than just a good resource for odd ball shopping, I've found they are a great resource for 1950 posters, I found a mass of images the other day on ebay. Heres some great posters.

Travel posters:













Illustrations and graphics are the main element in these posters, and how can you miss the titles of the locations in bold type.

More

I found the week 7 sesson to be quite productive, it made me look at the posters as components, though, I can talk well on 1950 poster design, I decided to have a second look at some new posters I had found in my research and make a couple of quick sketches of the basic elements that make up the designs.





Movie Poster sketch, the border is a component, I've seen in many movie posters, it seperates the images from the test.
Though its almost as if they are trying to break the bounderies are previous design by using angled text and shapes. Definately a feature of 1950s design, you don't get that intodays design, well not the way they have done this.
Another feature was the big use of the actors names, whereas now they are not such a big thing, usually in tiny text at the bottom of posters, back in the 1950s they were sometimes even bigger than the movie title.







Another sketch showing this, the actors names almost compare in size to the title. They are always in bold text as well. Taglines are big in 1950s poster designs and usually a core compnent.



















This sketch of an airline poster, shows the typical style taken on for this form of advertisement. The style is simple, loads of space, a simple border. And a thing of the 1950s, graphics, graphical images of the locations, not accurate but tying to be 3d, use of perspectives to achieve this.