Created by: Joshua Perez; Hung up in my living room apartment. 

You might ask why would you hang it up in your living room apartment of all places? Well first of all it’s my design I like it and second I honestly needed some decorations in my apartment. No, the real reason is that I figured sticking the poster somewhere where I would always see it would make me and my roommate appreciate it more and it would really help remember the information flyer because we see it everyday.

So what makes the poster stand out from the rest, well it has a combination of black and white that adds a lot of contrast to the whole flyer. My intention for this flyer was to make the top text stand out and from there one’s eyes can diverge to the rest of the flyer. I tried to make this poster as artistic as possible without losing much information and I tried to use white text whenever I could, in order to do just that I simply duplicated multiple layers of the same text on top of each other to create a a black box and laid the white text on top. This is exactly what I did with the Washington State University I duplicated the text layer enough to create a black box in which I could then lay the date and time in white. The poet’s names was a little tricker to arrange. I obviously wanted to make the poet’s name stand out but making the text big didn’t really help because the date and time stood out more so I decided to do something similar with the poet’s names but not quite the same. I made a black box area with their information but I gave each poet a sort of drop shadow (with the same poet’s name but in black) to make their name stand out even more than it already did. Once this was done I was satisfied with how everything stood out.

In conclusion, what makes my flyer stands out from the rest is that it provides a lot of contrast and the title and poets name stand out in a unique way. When working on my revisions I plan to make the text behind the poet’s names stand out more and figure out if there is a way to make Museum of Art stand out more as well.