Week 12 - Posters in Space

Final Presentation of my posters in Te Ara Hihiko. 

Final Posters and Code

Link to the code 

https://googledrive.com/host/0B4B1DsWZ3yvvMmo4MFZlZng5cnc

https://googledrive.com/host/0B4B1DsWZ3yvvTXpWdG1Ic01xX1k

Here have I got my final posters, I sent two to print as I couldn't decide on which one to use. Both posters have a mixture of two variations of the code, in regards to all the things I have been listing in previous posts. With a quick edit in InDesign to put the context in on when and where this workshop is happening. 

The code for the above posters, main differences are the LINE_COLOR, numPoints and maxDistance for each design and the letters.

The Code for the Latest Letters (Blue)

This is the code for the letters, I got this code from http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/generative-typography-processing-tutorial/ and it is using the geomerative library. I mainly played around with the colour, size of the circles, number of points, max distance, stroke weight and  size of the font. There wasn't much else to change of play around with. I did look into ether I could adapt this code to create a shape with out the font but couldn't figure out what I could replace the shape = font.toShape(); with. I searched the whole geomerative library but couldn't find anything on it. I think that this is specially for type and must be a different code for other shapes. 

Test Prints

First test prints of the A1 poster, here is still mainly 'black and white' apart from the faint colour of the dots. Also right at the beginning of the development process. The colour posters are nearly at the final stage. Just some silly mistakes that needed fixing which are easily to not spot on the screen. 

The folded test outputs are actually quite hard to put together if you have lots of panels. I printed out actually quite a few but most of the were 'flops' as I created it with too many panels and quite small. So back to 123D Make to shrink-wrap and create one single piece that gets folded together. Folding a somewhat round shape is quite interesting as you create the sharp folds but then when you shape it to create the form it does create a roundish shape overall. 

Posters

The following are developments and putting the title into context for the posters. As 'Assembly and Disassembly of the Nervous System' is quite long I was looking at another workshop or conference and found the 'Alcohol and the Nervous System' where as with this one it doesn't quite fit with type as the assembling and disassembling of the letters. 

For the poster I was looking into scale of the title and emphasising on one of the letters, especially where you can see the linking lines, with positioning of each words and the contexts of when and where. Some are bit random but others are a lot better. 

             

Week 11 – Developing the Posters

Developing the poster to the best portrayal of the concept possibly was a long process of adjusting in Photoshop and putting into InDesign to get the context in. The ideas below are before being put into InDesign. Some are very rough as in uneven lines in some of the words put together by the single letters.