Poster Development - Rebecca

Textures

Experimenting with textural background. I tried to use textures that
relate to coffee such as coffee stained paper and tissue. Not sure if these two
patterns are working well at the moment. I quite like the left texture but maybe
I need to play around with the opacity of it as it is clashing with the already textured
coffee cup. Maybe I don't need a texture background at all?

I tried removing the textures that was originally clipped into the coffee

cup. Also lowered the opacity of the background to bring the imagery out. 

However I don't think this is working out that well. The cup looks too flat

and empty. I feel that the original textured cup prevented the image 

from looking dull, so maybe I might go back to the original image. 

Background Colours

 

Subtle colour changes to see what shade works best. (using colours from

the mood board) I found that light shades of  brown seems to contrast quite 

well with the imagery. I also found that a darker background seems to take 

away the focal point as my imagery are quite dark to begin with. I tried to play

 with a pattern background again, but in the end I feel like it does not need one. 

It is quite distracting especially with the text - too hard to read with the pattern 

overlaid at the back. I also tried to align the text with the image so they are all 

centred but I am not sure which one is working better. Maybe I will have to 

get some opinion from Jannyne and others. 

Imagery Colours

  

After discussing with some peers, I decided to go for the centred text in terms

of visual flow (top-bottom). I also tried experimenting with the imagery colours,

taking the colours from fair-trade and changing its contrast and brightness slightly.

I also finally figured out the background colour. - I decided to pick the colour I liked

most (top left image) and then played around with the brightness settings

till I found one that worked quite well in terms of contrast.

Fonts