Interim Presentation

Today was our interim presentation, where we got to put up 2 of our concepts, and have them critiqued as everyone walked around the class. It was a good method of an interim, as everyone sat a piece of paper next to their posters, and then we all walked around and wrote some feedback on each poster. That way, it ensured that everyone got some helpful feedback in order to help them develop their posters.

I had decided to call my conference 'micro'. Each of my posters had different taglines depending on their imagery/concept. For example, ones with type being polished had "A typographic conference polished to perfection", while dissection ones had "A typographic conference with a cutting edge".

For the presentation, I had mocked up 7 different basic concepts, and had to narrow them down to 2. I quickly asked a few of the people I was sitting with which ones they thought I should present. They suggested the surgeon concept, and my other concept with the magnifying glass (can be seen attached at the bottom of this post).

The interim took about an hour, and I had some valuable feedback written about each of my posters. However, Lee came around for the 1 on 1 session during the latter stages of the class, and I thought I better show her my other concepts to see if they were really my best. As there was one that I thought was better, and she had liked the thumbnail sketch of it last week, so I thought I'd show her the digital version.

I showed her it, and she really liked it, and said it was better than the other two I had put forward, and if I had of presented that one, it would have "been a winner". The poster is the one of the man hosing down the type, as if it's his car. It's definitely a lot more interesting and engaging for the viewer, and there is a bit of humour in it.

Now that I've decided I'm going to use this poster to develop, I'm going to take into consideration about what Donald had said last week, about making it into a series. I'm going to look at different ways of people manipulating, fixing, cleaning and polishing type, that I can put into my brochure. I'd like to use the surgeon idea, although in this new style I'm going to use, rather than an illustration. I'd like to have different people doing various things to the type, each one letter at a time, and have it spell out 'micro' (my conference name) throughout the brochure. For example, 'm' on one page, 'i' on the next etc...

By next class, we just need to keep defining our conference, fleshing it out, and developing our idea. I have attached all of my initial interim posters below. They can also be seen in my physical workbook.