Assignment 4- Poster Design

I did this draft during the mid-term break and while I was at home, I find myself binge eating like crazy so I suddenly had the inspiration to design a No Binge Eating Poster.
Fundamentally, my design idea was adopted from this picture I found online.




I like the idea of handcuffs to food. I adopted the idea and produced my initial draft:




I created a fat man in prisoner clothes to complement the handcuffs to reinforce the fact that he is a prisoner of junk food.

I had difficulties creating the handcuff effect on illustrator and finally after spending about 1 hour or so exploring the 3D effects part which caused my laptop to hang several times, I finally produced a handcuffed effect, albeit not like the real thing.

Initially, I had yellow background and red text but I find that the text is pretty plain as compared to the picture. For me, I am drawn the the picture before the text but I would like to create a visual balance. Without the text, people will naturally look from left to right because of the flow of the direction of the food. I added the stripey background with a focal point on the right to highlight the text.

But it was said that my background is distracting and i should stick to a plain one. I also realised that most of my classmates' poster are in vertical rather than landscape form. I thought of changing my poster to landscape form for my final piece. By placing the text and the top and the picture below, i hope to create the natural flow instead of the current conflicting directions in focus.

Jing mentioned that handcuffs are a interesting concept and I should make them look bigger and heavier to convey the control and entrapment ideas. She also suggested that I add more food. Final piece will be up soon, I hope:)