Nachos For Everyone!!!!

For my media poster, I decided to make an advertisement for Nacho Hour here at Trinity University. I wanted to spread the word to all Trinity students to let them know when and where this event takes place.

When making the poster I really tried to make it as simple as possible while still being very effective in getting the information across. This event is a relatively simple and laidback event, and I wanted the poster to reflect that. I choose to only include the necessary information which is the time and place of the event as well as a call to action.

With there being such little information on my poster, I had to make my focal point very clear. I wanted to make this very obvious for the viewer so I even designed it to where there would be lines directed the viewer's eyes directly to the plate of nachos.

I think my choice of color really helped make the poster flow. The matching colors really make the poster look aesthetically pleasing. The background colors matching the plate of nachos really ties the whole poster together without making the poster look messy.

This experience being a content producer as suppose to a content consumer was a lot harder than I thought it would be. Whenever I see other posters I am so quick to judge because honestly it doesn't look very hard. That was until I tried myself. There is so much thought that goes into each and every little decision. Just one bad decision on the design can make the poster very unpleasant to the eye.

One thing that didn't go very well was that it was hard to find a real life pictures of nachos that I was easily able to make work within my poster. I wanted to a very appetizing picture of nachos as the vocal point but it was very difficult to find that fit my layout. 

Another challenge I came across was that I found it difficult to decide on what to leave out of the poster. Like I said earlier, I wanted to keep it really simple but there was also more information that I initially had in there. It was hard but I knew I had to cut out some information to achieve "less is more".

This process really helped me better appreciate media design more. It helped me understand how deliberate each decision really is and allowed me to better understand the rationale behind those good decisions.