Project 2: Poster Design | Ben Berk

My poster was advertising a talent show benefiting Haitian relief. It is being put on by the afterschool segment of the summer camp I work at, Oasis Community Corporation. Oasis runs many free or near free children's programs in New York City, including summer camps, tutoring programs and afterschool programs. The site that this one advertises for has many children from temporary housing.

The picture I use for the background was taken at my mom's school (she's an elementary school teacher in the city). I originally planned on just having one chair centered but after I saw this picture, I had a new idea. The letters of "you" could be centered on each seat, giving the illusion that they are sitting in the chairs. I felt this worked because it almost pressures the reader to attend the talent show.

I used Celestia Antigua Std for the top 3 lines. I picked it because I felt it was soft enough to seem written by children yet still legible. The serifs are rounded, and there are no extravagant stylings.

I used Flood Std for "YOU" because I think it looks really raw. It almost looks as if it was painted on with a large paintbrush. Again, I felt like it looked slightly less professional, but in a good way.
Finally, I chose Trajan Pro for the text along the bottom because the all caps and bold strokes are legible while still remaining small and unintrusive.

I used the eyedropper tool to transfer the color of the red from the picture to form the background of the lower third of the poster. I tried to remove the white of the Oasis symbol with the clipping tool but I wasn't able to.