For my poster design, I would like to choose this one to pursue for my final portfolio because I think it stood out from other posters. I hung it on the door at my apartment because it is a clear place I can see easily when I leave home and come back every time every day. It is a great manner to remind me to think about how I can do better for my final portfolio every time I see it. I believe I can get more inspiration when viewing my poster design frequently.

One of reasons I think the design stood out from others because the arc words in the center of the paper is a little different from the traditional style. From the traditional style, we can see posters mostly present horizontal lines. It is rare to see other shapes of words. Therefore, through contrasting the traditional style, I believe this way can catch more of the audience’s attention on the time of the event, and notice the title in the middle, “Experimental Poetry in Action.”  Another reason is my vertical words, which are “Presented by WSU Visiting Writer Series 2015-2016”. In my design, I want to present different styles of words to make my project more plentiful. I hope it does not look boring.

For my design, when looking at scale, we can see my letters in the poster are mostly the same size. There is not much contrast to compare different sizes. For this case, I will revise it to make some important words or letters I want to catch audiences’ eyes bigger than others. For figure/ground, I tried to balance my positive space and negative space. I tried to put black texts (positive space) surrounded with white background (negative space). For the entire framing, I kept a little bit of space in the margins because I do not want the poster to look crowded. Additionally, I not only bolded and italicized the title, but bolded the time and the university’s name with an arc shape in caption to catch audiences’ eyes.

To improve this design for the final portfolio, one is to revise some letters’ size and change to different type to make it contrast in scale. Another is for authors’ information, I would bold authors’ names or make them bigger in authors’ information to catch audiences’ attention. These ideas are so far I figured out, I will think more about how to improve my design to make the poster look better.