Poster One Design process#DES101

Step 1. Choosing the poem

Eye of Fire Your eyes are fire Their image burnt into my soul Scared by beauty ​

Step 2. Brainstorming words from poem

Step 3. Drawing brief ideas

  In this step I used three words that I liked from the brainstorming part and used them to create ideas using six ideas for each word. In every column I tried to use a similar concept (e.g., the ideas on the first column were generated by circles).  The dots in the boxes are the ideas that I liked the most, and I decided to use them to explore more detailed ideas. 

Step 4. Exploring my favorite ideas with a pen

After choosing my favorite ideas from Step 2, I drew them up with a black pen. These were very rough as I did not use any ruler. From the boxes which were dotted, I tried to mix them up and link a few parts from each of the boxes to give more details on each idea. I used a lot of lines, empty circles and boxes to represent my theme. As the poem is about the speaker missing her dead friend, I used lines to show the connection among the objects. Also, as you can see, there are a lot of empty spaces which I employed to express emptiness.  

Step 5. Final Design

 After deciding my favorite design from step three, I got a ruler and compass to create perfect lines and figures. With the use of my Vivid marker, I created where I wanted the lines to be thicker, hence my final design.  spaces which I employed to express emptiness.