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Here is my final timeline poster for Tibor Kalman. In the end, I have decided to narrow down the information to Kalman’s career and briefly covering what he has done. I mostly used Illustrator all throughout concept planning to creating my final designs, and I was able to see just how helpful the lab teaching had been. In this poster, I decided to keep to the minimalistic style I had been aiming for, by spacing out each arrangements evenly and avoiding cluster. I originally wanted to use a photograph of Tibor Kalman, but one of my experiment was to use outlines (I traced around his image) and play around with colours and I thought this worked out much better - with a more consistent colours and contrast in visual image. There are some elements I decided to leave in as part of my final work (such as the typography and bright colours).

Final Thoughts:

503 for far, has been such a ride for me. In the beginning, since I wasn’t very familiar with Adobe, I was immediately concerned that I would fall behind in class. I was quickly rid of my worries after the first few weeks though, slowly going over photoshop and illustrator’s functions was immensely helpful. 

Though it tends to get repetitive, I did have a lot of fun documenting each lessons and self directed learning tasks, as I found it satisfying seeing myself grow with every lesson. Reviewing each lessons after class became a helpful habit and I eventually was able to grasp content quicker after forcing myself to focus on materials I missed during class.

The process of designer research wasn’t as tough as actually putting myself in my designer’s shoes. I just couldn’t wrap my head around how I should look at Kalman’s work and what I should be working towards. It took quite a long time before I was able to come around and really start to analyse Kalman’s works and what he is influenced by. I’m now able to point out certain techniques and elements Kalman often has in his works, and how it impacts his designs. I think that this is a big step for me especially, after weeks of just trying to figure things out.

Being online this semester definitely took its toll on me, and I struggled a lot trying to catch up with work and still taking care of myself. I’m glad I was able to come this far regardless and hope I can work better for the rest of the semester.

SDL: Task Two

As for the second category, we are to start compiling these research into concept ideas. We are asked to experiment with layout ideas and sketch them out (with annotations).

I made a quick few concept sketches on how I want to approach my timeline design. I took into consideration on how I can successfully implement Tibor Kalman’s design elements whilst still incorporating my own ideas. A lot of these sketches really reflect on Kalman’s use of typography and how he arranges his texts. I tried out variations of placement, with ones that rotates around the subject and ones that follows a neat and consistent direction (down the page). I also entertained the idea of implementing illustrations into the design and using bright colours to emphasis on certain points of add a stronger accent to the otherwise plain backgrounds. I think this is definitely a good start to my posters as I have an idea on how I want the final outcome to look like, and how I should develop these ideas.

Type & Colour

I have selected and narrowed down some font and colours that I am considering to incorporate into my timeline poster. Tibor Kalman works with San serif fonts, and to avoid confusing texts, I am also choosing to use fonts that are thinner and easier to identity (read). 

As for the colour palette, after closely reviewing Kalman’s works, I noticed that he uses a lot of bright, especially primary colours that stands out from the image. He often uses these colours to add emphasis and accent that either isolates the text or adds highlight to specific areas of the image.