SRS- In Progress

Hey everyone- My apologies for being so bad about keeping up with my blog! I've really got some catching up to do! So here is one of the many blog posts I'll be writing today. This one is about the progress I'm making on my series.

Firstly, I am so mad that I wasn't taking notes during our critique! I don't know what I was thinking. I remember getting some really useful feedback, but now I'm just going off my not-so-great memory. So right now I'm especially open to feedback from any of you, especially constructive criticism. But here is what I do remember from the critique of my series:

1. Add more information. My topic has some really great attention-grabbing and shocking facts about corporate media takeover and the commercialism that's killing mainstream radio, and I could be using those to much greater advantage. They would be especially good for getting the attention of people who never really gave radio a second thought, but if they see these facts, 

they might say "wow... radio does suck. I never knew. I need an alternative. Oh look! There's a website where I can go to find an alternative to bad radio. Excellent!"

2. Strengthen the logo. I felt that my radio logo was too generic as it was from the poster project, so I made some changes to strengthen it. I added an X across the speaker to try to communicate that something was wrong with radio, that this logo represented an idea more complex than just being an image of a vintage radio. I think the idea I was going for was on the right track- but the X was not communicating that. I've been working finding another way to i

mbue the radio with more meaning and significance. I think I've settled on an image, you can see the changes I made in the image to the left. I think the hole in the radio communicates the idea that something is missing, that something is wrong, with radio. The hole is the focal point now, instead of the radio itself; so

 the message of the image has become what is wrong with radio, instead of merely depicting a cool, vintage radio. Please let me know what you think! Is it working? A little? Not at all? Does the hole really look like a hole? Or does it just look like a white circle slapped a radio? Let me know what you think.

PSTR- Final Critique

So here's my final critique for my poster. Overall, I'm pretty happy with it. I think the text at the bottom is my favorite part, and that's probably because I'm usually very conservative in my use of type. The image is usually the focal point, with the text being secondary, but in this poster, the text itself acts acts the main images, with the other images being the secondary element. I think I also like this poster a lot because my style is usually very clean and simple, and for this poster I got to push away from that and create something more grungy and  exciting, which was fun for me. I do agree with the class feedback which said that it would be a more effective and attention-grabbing poster if it were scaled larger. When I revise the poster to be part of the Series, I'll definitely make it bigger.  I'll also be makign it even more grungy, I'm thinking about finding a font that looks like it's been screen or block printed- but it would have to be a really convincing typeface, I don't want it to look cheesy or fake. So I'm looking into maybe actually printing the letters and phrases I want somehow, and then scanning them. We'll see how that turns out.