This year for a local charity (Hannah’s House) I was tasked with created a promotional flyer for an event. This year the lucky individual being roasted was the County Sheriff and the client desired a wanted style poster for him. So as with any project I took the suggestions my client gave me and threw them out the window and decided that a proclamation poster was better. Joking aside though, after researching posters created in the 1800s and my current knowledge of how wood type was used and laid out, I was able to conceive some poster ideas.
A proclamation poster such as this didnt require too much sketching, but it did require a lot of typographic tweaking. Finding a font that was legible for most readers and then placing it on the page prentending that each letter is a peice of wood type that a printer would be using on a press. Overall though the end result was fantastic and the client was very satisfied with the design. I was most happy to be able to help out a community organization with my design work.
Gives you that warm feeling inside… or maybe that’s just the coffee.
Mooney Shmooney 