Layout and Composition planning sheet. There are the different variations of layouts and compositions that I would try to experiment with my posters in the project, these include the typical portrait and landscape advertising layouts and some more experimental and dynamic compositions that rely on the content of the poster for formation.
This is my first rough mockup for my artist response piece. It features Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut that was the first person to go to outer space, with other planets such as Earth and Kepler-452b which is all based on my primary research photos. I chose Yuri Gagarin as my focus along with Kepler-452b because it linked strongly to my overall project but on a personal level I've always found the people behind lesser-known scientific or space achievements to be very interesting which resulted in Yuri being the focus.
The art style matches the minimalistic semi-figurative illustrations of figures found in Harrison's art and I expanded on this by applying the same characteristics of the art style to the planets the best I could. I used my analysis of Harrison's composition to place the planets in the same layout: having every two planets added are placed slightly more forward until the most foreground has only one figure which is effective at adding depth rather than having them all align in the same distance.
This was my second rough mockup. This is my Photoshop mock-up inspired after the first rough sketch of my artist response poster concept and was made to help me draw a more refined version of my concept. This was achieved by cutting out objects in my primary research photos and placing it according to the first poster concept which resulted in this mock-up.
This is my third mock-up. Using the second mock-up, I created the final concept art before moving my design to Photoshop to create the final poster. I used some shapes and outlines from the second mock-up but the rest created by me using reference images from Harrison's art to make the mock-up in her art style.
This was the background I created for my Vashti Harrison artist response. It depicts a semi-figurative version of space that is very minimalistic, I analysed Harrison's art and found that she has drawn illustrations of starts in her work in her art style for her character's clothing or general visual flair and thus I used the same patterns and shapes to convey stars in space to make my piece seem authentic.
This was the second background I created for my Vashti Harrison artist response. I use the same patterns and shape as the first background but in a more dense composition. This was achieved by using Photoshop's offset function to make a repeating pattern that could then use to fill backgrounds with.
My first Vashti Harrison artist response poster. This is a landscape composition which uses the nasalization font to further concrete the space theme as it spells out details about the exhibit, the title and the date of when it starts to when it ends. This orientation would typically be used on bus advertisements, digital billboards, and landscape A4 physical posters.
My second Vashti Harrison artist response poster. It still retains the same landscape composition of the first poster but uses the second background I made.
My third Vashti Harrison artist response poster. This uses poster's composition has now be rearranged to be in the portrait format which was accomplished by shifting the dates and details down and changing the text alignment to be to both the left and right rather than centre. The title and science museum logo stay in roughly the same place since it works well with the composition.
My fourth Vashti Harrison artist response poster. It still retains the same portrait composition of the third poster but uses the second background I made.
The first badge is of an astronaut's helmet with the reflection of Kepler452-b. The astronaut concept was formed due to the helmet sharing the same circular shape as common badge designs and its glass reflection made it easy to make the overall design to be linked to Kepler452.
The second badge is of binoculars that have the reflection of both earth and Kepler452-b. My project has a strong focus on the link between earth and Kepler452 due to the two planets sharing many similarities (even being dubbed by scientists as Earth 2.0) so having them being viewed by the same binocular was my concept of a link. The binoculars were chosen to act as a reference to the far distance between the earth and Kepler (1,402 light-years away) and our attempts to reach the faraway planet.
The third badge depicts earth and Kepler452-b in a mirror-like a split badge, this is to reference their strong link to one another with their general planet structure being similar in shape, colour and overall appearance.
The fourth and final badge is the number "452" with all the numbers connected. Luckily (and even coincidently) The numbers four, five and two each end in the same of the next number which allowed me to join them up easily and made for a generally aesthetically appealing design.
Once the vectors were made, I placed the designs in Photoshop (as a smart vector object) and used the same crayon-like brush that was used for my Vashti Harrison artist response. This would be fitting since the badges are aimed at a child audience which was can also be seen in its pastel colour scheme. I tried to make all the badges follow a limited colour scheme to make them all feel like they are apart of one complete collection which was my aim.
