ViVi's ICT Blogg ♥

                                                   EVALUATION♥
"Explain how you used the principles of design in your digital poster. Use specific "descriptive" words in your explanation."

White Space:
I’ve balanced the white spaces, or empty spaces, in the centripetal point. Because most of the background picture is in the middle, the texts that I contributed are around the outside, near the edges of the border. The center is brighter than any other part of the poster, because there are shades of luminous night colors; purple, pink, orange and green. It might not be called a white space, considering there are numerous colors, but it’s vacant enough.

Focal Point:
Imagine this; folding my poster into four equal bits. The top left box would definitely be my focal point, for there is an enormous title, bigger than the other texts. There is also the yellow-orange sun right below the title. That expands the focal point because the rays of the sun illuminate the title from behind. Since the background I’ve boosted up is too intense, the title is highlighted with lighter versions of the colors, making it stand out.

Fantastic Fonts:
The fonts are simple. Since Vanilla Hills is a thrilling-park kind of thing, I came to a conclusion to make the words ‘Vanilla’ in ivy-green, cursive-like fonts, with swirls that look like vines. That font represents the peace and beautiful scenery of the park. For ‘Hills’, I used a more bold font; thick, short, and dark. That represents the thrilling bit of the park. For the small details, I used kiddy fonts; like Three-Dimensional Century Gothic. The reason being is because the park is for kids as well, so they would like to read a poster with texts that looks like something from elementary school.

Display Balance:
The pictures and texts on my poster are equally spreaded out. Since the biggest of things will capture people’s eyes first, they’ll see the title. Then they’ll look around to next big thing, then the next, until they go all around (because, as I said, all the texts are near the border of the poster). Finally, their eyes will adjust on the center, for there is a dazzling sun in the middle, where besides the sun, is bare.

Simple is nice:
I would say my poster is simplified to its simpliest form because I didn’t use loads of pictures. The texts are limited to which is significant on a poster, which is not. People will only take a few seconds to look at a poster, and no one would want to waste their time looking at each and every one of the little pictures. Therefore I only used five pictures. It might sound a lot, but it doesn’t look as uncountable on the poster; one for the background, one for the sales off sign, and 3 for the logo. I rearranged the three pictures on the logo and made it look simple but to the point, and I think I’ve achieved that.

Color Correctly:
My poster might look colorful, and yes it is, but there is a special color scheme to that. My first thought on parks was excitement, and my first thought on excitement was fireworks. Fireworks come in a variety of colors, and it glows in the dark night sky. For the poster, I used only sleepy colors (the reason being is because I don’t want people to go home from a park feeling exhausted, they should feel relaxed while having fun as well), meaning they aren’t cheerful, but they aren’t gloomy as well. The colors are astonishing because they don’t blend together, they’re complimentary. And I kept to that theme of fireworks at night; so mostly the small details’ color is black, with a shimmer of other gleaming colors here and there. Before, the picture of the background was in black and white, but I upgraded the picture and made it interesting for all ages to look at.

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