A relaxing weekend in my sights

Well, thank god that's over. It went really well, and left me feeling full of hope and excited for the BFA show, which was a much better feeling than the kind of dejected feeling I had after 5th week reviews.

Here's the notes I jotted down afterwards:

First poster—good

Second poster—integrate type better

Third poster—redo border, make it more nouveau-y, ink illustration, add color, no all caps, fix the typography

Fourth poster—poem as text, add political themes, fix sentence--it was not about hand-done, but expressionism/poor-man's illustration

Fifth poster—art deco as Mexican, add music? Or architecture—Europe + America (Chicago) reinterpreted by Mexico with Mexican themes

Sixth poster—my own, what I have learned?

I thought it was immensely interesting that Ricky was the one that suggested the sixth poster of my own work, rather than copied from others, since it was him that said there was too much of me in my first posters from the 5th week review. Yay! Made me very excited.

Marina was there, and on time, and skyped, and was very supportive and helpful and totally hit it off with Natalia (I think their shared love for design history helped connect them). So that was fantastic, since that's the thing I worried about the most. And her English was quite good. :)

Here I am, beginning my presentation, with Natalia and Ricky, Marina via skype behind Natalia,
and Tiffany out of frame to the left.

I had a table full of resources, and two tables full of papers for each poster (inspirations and sketches) and then put up my three posters that I finished, tile-printed, plus the inspiration boards for all five posters.

Here's my third poster that you haven't seen yet!

I think it looks pretty awesome, although admittedly the secondary type still needs work.