[Project 3] Checkpoint 2/13
Preliminary Sketches
For this first sketch I thought of using the capital Q as a frame, with light opacity punctation in the background, and also the history of the typeface in the middle of the Q. I had a little trouble placing some of the components, such as the full character set and the quote. If I were to use this as the starting sketch of my final poster, I can see that there is potential for the poster to look messy, especially if I have a lot of text and noise going on in the background.
I wanted to try something different for the next one, with the quote taking the center of the poster, but still making it obvious that the typeface is Baskerville. I placed an exclamation point in the middle as a small note to experiment with color and contrasting different colors with each other. Again, looking at it now I’m not sure if where I placed the character set would look like there is too much of a whitespace imbalance.
In this poster, I drew inspiration from a typeface poster online, where they used asterisks to separate the different syllables of the typeface (Bas*ker*ville). I also wanted to play around with some cheeky wording (“Inglorious Basterds” vs. “Inglorious Baskerville”). I know Baskerville was used in the movie poster for “American Gangster” so this probably wouldn’t be too far off. If I do choose to go with this design I might make the title more horizontal so it’s easier to read.
I went with a more minimalistic and simple design for this sketch, which can give me more room to use colors to make the poster more exciting. Baskerville is supposed to be clean and “true” proportion, so I can use this poster to display that.
For this sketch I went into Microsoft Word and typed out the full character set twice, one with just the normal font and the other in italics. The italicized ampersand looked very pretty and fancy, so I tried to use that to frame all the information I needed on the poster. Since the font looks fancier, I decided to try to introduce Baskerville as “Mr. John Baskerville” and have the rest of the information support and complement that.
