Today in class I showed my two posters to people and asked them to choose between the list of all of my posters, and thankfully for the most part people enjoyed the posters which I chose last week– probably in part thanks to the brightly colored backgrounds which popped more. The biggest bit of feedback I got however was that my cityscape poster just looked like rectangles to people, rather than a city. So I spent the rest of class and this afternoon working on making the cityscape render like a real skyline. I thought rather than just choosing any old skyline I'd pick a recognizable New Zealand one, and I thought Auckland is probably the best pick, thanks to the skytower.

I also had double ups of some figures in my original and wanted to use new headshots, so these are the ones I've settled on for the most part. After doing the skyline, and showing it to people they definitely got the metaphor much stronger, and liked the concept. I still think it needed work, so I tried out different colours and typographic styles: