After more discussions with the graphics group, and some input from people in other groups, this appears to be coming close to a final design. Once again, we are showing the image to as many people as possible in the whole exhibition to gauge opinions.
I prefer the darker design as it draws more attention to the work:
The text also stands out clearly.
A small number of people have commented how the design is slowly drifting away from a retro style which I do agree with. However, it is a group decision and this is where the process has led us so far.
It is still open to deliberation, but we are nearing a decision. We certainly need to soon as we need to produce 20 of these boards, test print them, then prepare them for the professional printing.
The same applies here. Not sure that your icons and images are working very well with the background. A good example is the line of colours going through the boards. It looses its impact completely.
ReplyDeleteI agree with this "small group of people"; the background is not related to the particular theme you selected. Also, you have such a rich range of icons from the 80's and I can't see any of them being part of your graphics (????).
Based in what I have seen I can just conclude that the Graphics Team got one design option and stick to it. No experimentation with other graphic solutions has been developed (at least that I can see in the blogs). Be aware that this will decrease the final results of the whole exhibition.