Exhibition Posters & Production

Printing 20 A2 prints took around 2 hours of printing time. I also printed off a large A1 print of Ned, the same one I used as the cover photo on the Facebook page, I plan to hang this one up somewhere in the entrance.

Some of the pictures were from a film camera, the two he took in China actually and I was worried about the resolution however they've come out really aesthetically pleasing, despite the fact they're slightly blurred it adds to the grainy moody b&w feel.

 

The only one I feel I may need to print again is the one entitled 'Gran'. I pulled this image of his photography website so it's not actually the original, hence the poor quality. I will need to ask his brother in Bristol to check Ned's hard drive to see if it can be recovered. Other than this one they all came out really well. I asked the student union to help me out with paying for the boards to mount the pictures on (which only cost £28 from the library) which helped out a great deal, not to mention them contacting higher powers in order to 'ok' me printing the photograph prints for free.

Here me and Kat mounted all the prints using spraymount, ensuring they were straight was a laborious task but the outcome was really neat and professional.

For the labels for each print I got Finn to help make these. We agreed they should just be simple so as to not distract from the work.

The union then allowed me to print off hand outs of the article I did the layout for at the end of last year for Ned. The article is about his travel to India and him reuniting with his friend Ravi, and his family.

Exhibition Handout 

I printed out the exhibition hand outs and cut them down by hand, to ensure precision I used a bone tool when folding and could do up to five at a time which helped as I had 100 printed. The print out itself is a layout I did for Ned last year, he wrote an article about one of his trips to India and asked me to put it together with some pictures he'd taken. I thought this would be perfect as some of the images are in the exhibition as prints, offering a story as opposed to having a print out of all the prints just as tiny pictures.

I'll be printing my own posters as the union have done so much for me! I'll put a few up around uni:

Poster Design 

I really like the first design which was actually an accident, using the content awareness fill tool. However it's not appropriate and I haven't even tried to add in the text as it just wouldn't be legible over the top of such a hectic background, distracting from the photo and important information regarding the event.

My two favourites were these:

                     

Feedback

I ended up choosing the last one as I wanted it to be simple, legible and personal (with the use of his picture). I used the yellowy/ orange stripes as a reference to his firey hair, the sportswear brands he loved to wear, cystic fibrosis trust colours and his overall need for speed which drove him throughout his life. In feedback I asked peers how they felt about the two; they felt the first one was too dark, the event is a celebration of his work and it didn't seem right with the connotations of the colour black. 

The latter is more personal, striking from a glance and including a picture of Ned holding a camera says it all really.

I then went onto make a similar banner for Facebook, ensuring visual identity and fluidity with the poster design.

Somehow embarrassingly in such haste to get the poster up I forgot to add probably the most important information, and ironically even when I got peer feedback they didn't notice either! I obviously (and my friends) aren't particularly in the right head space to concentrate... So I had to manually add the time and date. This and the fact I used masking tap to hang them up around Uni adds a personal touch I actually really like, even if it was a mistake! We laughed as Ned was never organised and probably would've found this quite fitting.