For my infographic timeline, my goal was to create a simple informative yet engaging infographic timeline poster about typography. Once I had finished researching the dates and typeface categories, I mulled over many different layouts and themes as seen in my process sketches below.
I knew I wanted to incorporate black paper cuttings and I immediately thought of Saul Bass’s movie posters. After taking a look at some of his works I came across a poster that I thought I could work with perfectly given the bars for information.
Once I gathered inspiration, I brainstormed titles involving something that breaks through the bars of type and I thought of the word ‘punchcutter’. That leads me to the idea of the metal typesetting and the title of “Cutting Through Type.” It worked to my favour that I could exaggerate the size of the movable type and incorporate the letter ‘T’ into my title and then I cut out the black letters that would fall to hint at the word ‘type.’
For my colour choices, I wanted my poster to have high contrast with the black bars so I opted for a bold yellow colour as my background which I painted. I then accented dark blue lines that lead to the title (inspired by Jan Tschichold).
Reflective Thoughts
This project was a lot of fun to put together but I definitely underestimated the amount of time it would take me to research accurate information and decide on a theme. Given the fact I spent more than 5 hours researching and planning out how I wanted the poster to look, and because of my efforts and satisfaction with the end result I rate my project a 10/10. I think I successfully followed the brief and was able to incorporate design elements including colour, line, negative space. I liked my simplistic high contrast design and I don’t think I needed to add any more decorative elements.
Sources:
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/370913719292011128/visual-search/?x=16&y=11&w=530&h=374&cropSource=6
https://www.behance.net/gallery/95017721/A-History-of-Typography
https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/history/history-typography-timeline
https://visual.ly/community/Infographics/other/history-typography-0
https://www.pinterest.ca/pin/370913719292011128/visual-search/?x=16&y=11&w=530&h=374&cropSource=6
https://medium.com/@glanceclock/the-evolution-of-wall-clocks-c2b069b2d394