Quote Design

The quote design project included picking an inspirational quote from a historical figure and designing a poster to illustrate the message of the quote. Before starting our designs we did preliminary work on the historical figure who was quoted as well as the impact the quote had when it was said. I learned that Gandhi was part of a political movement to make India independent. He took a nonviolent approach and believed in the potential of every person to be good. A basis of the project was typography and a focus was placed on creating clipping masks. In my design I focused on shape and value. Color also played into the design. I took the shapes of the countries and changed their opacity in order to appear as if they were clouds in the sky behind the trees. I  was trying to get across the message that the world is apt to change. Every year the world goes through seasons and living in New England we know how dramatically dissent each season is. The image also shows the sun and the moon symbolizing another change we are all used to. The world can be changed to but some changes do not happen naturally. The picture is balance by having four panels. The emphasis on the quote is made by the contrast between the dark of the picture with the white of the words. I also had unity in my piece by using a font which is organic like the shapes within the pictures.