Today we looked at how metaphors within art and images convey different feeling and emotions within a piece. I learnt how to look past the obvious meaning of an image and look deeper to find hidden meanings, as well as how to use images to convey a message without the use of any words. Metaphors can be used in many different ways, for example politics, advertising, films etc.
I then used the idea of visual metaphors to design 5, a45 poster designs using visual metaphors to design a poster about Futurism. Using different coloured paper, no text or images I designed my posters to include all the most important features of Futurism to give the essence of a poster created in the Futurism era. I used lots of bold colours, and put scattered boxes across the page to act as the ‘random’ text and shapes used in Futurist posters. Futurism is about speed and movement and I tried to convey that through the use of size in my poster. I also tried to convey the idea of nice within the poster using the scattered text and images.
I think this exercise was helpful in giving me ideas about my final poster design. It showed me how to take ideas of speed and movement and add them into my design using size, colour and the layout.
Ben Jackson 