After displaying my posters in class, I ultimately decided to make this poster my final project. After taking into consideration the critique I got in class from one of my classmates I decided there were a couple of things I can do to make my work more appropriate for the event.  I knew from the beginning designs that I wanted the white negative space  to be a nod to Collier Nouges’ eraser poems. But, after printing it out I realized that I needed to do something to create more of his style in this poster. For the final draft I plan on setting the fill coloring in some of the biographical text to black, and in doing so creating words like Collier does in his poems. I also will be taking Joan Retallack’s biography and shaping it in the giant comma in the shape of a square to allude to her book cover that was shown to us in class. The guidelines also tell us that we need to add a giant typeface letter in the background with an opacity reduction so that it will appear grey. I am thinking of taking a period and scaling it up to a huge proportion, cut it into pieces and place them in the background of the poster. I am excited to see where I can go in the next steps of my project.

Josh Coleman poster draft