Posters that`ll make go "Ohh" vs Posters that`ll make you go "Eww"

Shaquille Parker

Blog Post- Homework Assignment

10/4/17

Professor Pabico

Within graphic design people create posters for some sort of occasion wither it be to promote a film, festival, concert, products or some upcoming activity. Or some cases poster is created to persuade or convince someone of doing something such as an anti-smoking ad or getting someone out to vote. Whatever the case may be, a well design poster will achieve that objective as to a poorly design one will fail in doing so.

GOOD POSTER DESIGNS

This poster advertising the 2010 horror film “The Evil Dead” could be consider a great poster design as it really catches the eye of the viewer, at first glance one could easily see the hand but the imagery within the hand is what really shows the creativity of the marketing team who design this. They used the forest and cabin in which the film takes place to give a gist of how the film is. For the those who didn’t know this was a horror without the indication of the obvious title could find this out from the hand spotting from the ground, somewhat indicating that this film could feature some undead entity. Besides the hand itself the poster has so many little details within in it that with just one or multiple looks at this poster could get the interest of many.

There is a lot of effective subliminal imagery within this film poster design, some of which the viewer wouldn’t have notice at first glance. But what would catch their attention is the very ominous and unnerving face in the poster, without or with have reading the film’s title most could have figure out that this is the movies villain.  The subliminal imagery upon further look shows that the figure`s face creates both an image of Gotham city the films setting as well as batman the films protagonist. The creators of this image do a very effective job with color, the use of black and a very dark white almost or somewhat grey give the impressions that this is a very gritty film.

 This is a simple yet effective poster image, it does it purpose and explains what need to explain. The image doesn`t really have any fancy design or subliminal message or is persuading you to do anything. It just shows the band, the special guest band as well as the time, date and location, as well when the tickets go on sale and where to get them. The font is very easy to read and pick up on at first glance, there’s no bunch up of many words or too many fonts that would distract or turn off the viewer. The name of the band “guns and Roses” is the largest font so it would be the first thing that the viewer picks up on and ultimately & honestly, is what would get their attention. 

BAD POSTER DESIGNS

The poster here does not do a very good job of attracting any attention to it, as the cluster and large grouping of words would turn most people away all due to the simple fact that they don’t care to read that much, especially when just walking by a street sign or school activity boar. The poster has too much happening within in it, and the many font types do not in help in any way.  There are many things in this poster that could have been left out to make it effective as well as sticking to 1 or 3 fonts.

This is another example of poster that is done poorly do to the result of cluster. The image has no well put together structure of words, rather everything is all over the place, making the viewer confused and turned off when viewing it. The image makes it difficult to know where to begin reading from, so one wouldn`t really know what the objective of the poster is in some cases. Although it has slight some details within it, that it ruined by it poor placement.

  

This image has a weak design since it leaves you with nothing to interpret but that fact that the image of the head and shadow of the figure might have something in common. The head is poorly photo-shopped into the dark shadow image to a point where it may come off as laughable. This image does poorly in convincing the viewer that it has any interesting aspects about the film.

In Conclusion, there are many things that separates a good poster design from a bad poster design, a good poster design will always interest who view it and always achieve its objective. A bad poster design will turn people away and fail its objective.