Good and bad design
I and my classmate Hang have surfed through many design website and forum to find a good design that we can recognize some of the principles discussed in class. Finally we found this poster:
We choose this design since it’s pretty clear, straight forward and effective in sending out message. The color is also strong and meaning ful (black, white and red remind of death, danger, scary things)
For bad design, firstly I wanted to choose this banner at Science canteen:
The banner violated the principles of figure and ground (most obvious violation). And all the effects of the fonts and background are also irrelevant. However, we didn’t choose it, for we couldnt get a clearer image of it.
Therefore we changed to this poster, also another poster in NUS campus:
The most obvious problem of this poster is that the background is even more eye-catching than the main figure, with lots of colors and all of those colors are very strong. The poster also showed no clear structure, no grouping, no main focus.
In the class, our tutor said that Holi is the festival of color. However, personally i think that we may have other ways to express the feeling of the festival, rather than trying to put every color in the background and catch attention from the viewer even more than the main foreground. For example, a poster with the thee “messy” doesn’t mean that everything has to be so messy, that no one can recognize anything. There are most basic principles that every design should follow.
