Day 1 — A • My poster design skills were not interesting or expressive to start. After doing "A", I thought I could add some more flavor with textures...
Day 3 — Foam • This series has only recently started and I am seeing the power of self-critique. "C" isn't amazing, but it definitely improved off of previous days. After doing "C" I wanted to start adding some more personality into the posters...
Day 5 — Circuit Sprint • I am really starting to like where this is going. I gave "E" it's own story of circuitry and movement - it really started to give more character to the posters. After doing "E", I wanted to explore the use of images in my posters...
Day 9 — Polar Lattice • Although I think that images are a powerful way to liven a photo, I didn't find them to work all that well in my current style of poster. After doing "I", I wanted to focus on improving my compositions...
Day 10 — Lost Dog • This poster was a turning point in my poster design where more creative ideas started to flow. I was thinking more about what I can actually do with the posters. It is NOT just a letter. It is a shape and form in my composition. After doing "J", I wanted to explore something less "flat" (stylistically)...
Day 11 — Everything is OK • I had a lot of fun making this poster. It was simple, but had a fun "pop" to it. I liked the 2.5D look, but I think it would be better if I stuck to my initial style instead of scattering and trying to learn too many things at once. After doing "K", I wanted to use my space (negative & positive) more effectively/in new ways...
Day 14 — Twisted Light • This is one of my favorite posters. It represents another step-up, for me, in this poster series. I loved being able to incorporate a double-perspective here while keeping the layout simple and clean. After doing "N", I wanted to keep exploring new ways to use my space...
Day 16 — Urban Letter Chase • I was staring at signs in my home city of Chicago one day and this idea popped into my mind. I had SO much fun making this that I almost started a whole series dedicated to putting these letters into urban settings like this. This is my only poster that has the # of this poster be displayed as part of the composition and theme. I believe this one to have the most personality of any of my posters and I was just so happy with it.
Day 18 — House in the Shadows • I really felt my use of negative space improving here. It was also very interesting thinking about the negative space in this poster. It felt like a totally different perspective and a different "world" even. From this point, I also decided to change the look for my dates in addition to getting creative with displaying which # poster it currently was. In this poster, I resembled "18" in my usual square format, but in the shape of a lamp (as seen in the top right). After doing "R", I wanted see if I could combine my previous applications of texture with this new negative space perspective.
Day 19 — Free Hugs • This was another step-up for me. When I got the idea for this, I practically squealed, but I wanted to make sure I executed it well. Trying to make a "Mama bear hugging her little cub" with just an "S" shape took some thinking, but once my mind came across the arms, it was all set and done from there. I was happy with the fact that I was learning from all my previous posters. I had incorporated perspective, negative space, texture, and personality. On top of that, it was also exciting to continue the way I displayed the # poster this was. I felt like this was my peak in this series. After doing "S", I wanted to just be loose with the rest of the posters and do the first thing that came to mind...
Day 20 — Subject 57 • I am a big fan of the Portal games by Valve. This was in direct inspiration from that series and I had some fun playing with pseudo-opacity and real opacity in this one. I also tried to tell more of a story here, but could definitely brush up on some of my illustrating here...
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