I started to design the poster as the starting point I used the vector I created as the main image. Inside the head used the sayings from the research I made earlier. I used words like anxiety, depression, man up, boy’s don’t cry. The purpose of this design is to show inside a mans head who is having mental health issues or even every men is society because they are all being told these things constantly. I think this design really fits in with the purpose of our campaign to show men do suffer from mental health more than we all think and there are reasons why they don’t speak up about it. I used two fonts for the text inside the head they were Impact and DIN Condensed regular. I think they both worked well together as impact is thicker and bold which I used to emphasis some words and DIN Condensed is more softer and easy to read. The first I idea I had in my mind was to make these words in swirling. But then I changed my mind because I thought it’d be harder to read them. I made each word gently overlap each other. Also, Holly designed the campaign logo which I think it looks really good. However, she used orange as the main colour and it blends in with the background colour. I will discuss with my group whether I should change this.
I developed the poster by adding the slogan and a small paragraph which talks about the campaign. The slogan I used is ‘It’s okay to talk about your feelings’ I think this slogan is very good it fits in with the campaign purpose and it’s a very gentle slogan which will make people feel something. The hashtag for our campaign is #tootoughfortears. I used it in the bottom corner with a bold font as I wanted it to stand out so I placed it on top of the head layer. The logo is placed on the left of the hashtag, the size of the logo is ideal because it can be clearly seen and completes the bottom half of the page. This is the first poster for the project. I can see that theres a lot missing.
Busra Yildiz 