Paper Recycling Poster for Schools

It's simple and it gets the point across. I wouldn't change anything.

Awesome design. Good concept and really well executed. The only thing I would consider changing is the word "think" to white as being yellow it really blends into the light - also for consistency with your other words.

The poster is really good as everyone else has already mentioned. I think it's perfect too - but if you're a perfectionist, which it seems you are because you've submitted such a great poster for even more feedback, there are a couple of things that stuck out.

1) The text "Stop" and "Think" are not aligned in the center of their circles - they need to be shifted right ever-so-slightly. And I think Stop needs to move up a tad as well.

2) The perspective of the traffic light is making it slightly weird to align everything I think. The shot is taken from the height of the red light and from the left. I don't know if you want to mess around with the perspective either on the traffic light or the text in front of it, but it may make it look less odd. Because of the perspective, your eyes just get stuck at STOP because it commands your attention - the rest of it seems to be below you and less important. And the perspective makes the light look crooked (as if the bottom is more to the left than the top), which is not really the case if you extend some guides to the edges of the light.

It's so perfect! Light and simple. I would love to have it on my office wall!

Great job! :)

I think the design is simple and great. I would just agree with Joel and change the color of the word THINK to white. Great concept and the message is easily delivered, which is important given the targeted audience.

I like it, but the paper in the back and the leaves makes it a bit odd.

Me gusta, trasmite de forma clara y simple el mensaje que quieren lograr.

Like it a lot but agree that the bottom branch should bleed off the left side.

Great job!

As everybody else is saying: It's perfect!

This is a truly engaging design. My only suggestion is to remove the recycle logo behind "Recycle" because it seems a tad busy there.

All the praising aside, I see one flaw.

The words "STOP" and "THINK" are in capital letters, yet the word "recycle" is in lower-case letters. Did you not have enough room to fit the capital letters in?

This would be more of a design enhancement, but putting an actual tree on the back of the traffic light (with the tree's branches blossoming out on top of the traffic light) would suit the poster more than having random branches with only a few leaves sticking out at random places, in my personal opinion.

I love it! The only thing that I would 'maybe' try is having the bottom branch bleed of the page (on the left side).

The top two look so good, it might look good at the bottom!

Wicked!

i love how you merge the natural elements on the sheet. .. don't you think that for going "PERFECT" this poster should be exposed on a flat screen (just to care the environment??? i wish !!)

Very straight forward and original... sure does beat all the bland signs I had when I was 3-6 grade.

thanks for your imagination

It's lovely

Just a question...It's a still-life adv ok? What are a traffic lights doing ON a Notepad? :)

Nice! Very attractive and easy to understand.

Hi! I really think that your concept and originality is excellent!

Like some of the above comments, I think all it needs with the wording is a bit further consistency. So, rather than filling in the whole light with lettering it would be cool to see it with the letters all the same size in the lights.

I think if you were stuck on keeping the yellow lettering than so should be the word stop lit in red and recycle lit in green....Yet, all white seems much more clear and effective. The red light with the white reminds us of the stop sign. If kept in white...maybe the same type used on the stop sign will give it a reality click?

Also, I can't tell from the computer image..but is the green lit brighter than all the rest?

Altogether pretty cool!

I don't really think at yellow lights!

I like the idea and nice design. Nice looking leaves, i think i have used those same ones.

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Love it. Love it, love it, love it. Good job!!!

Love it! 5555

I really impressed, well aimed and even all visuality without texts explaning much.

at bottom of this poster place cartoon picking papers waste etc.

I think stop, think, recycle is a really smart concept;]

I just love this, the girl has talent :)

I really, really like this poster. I think you did a great job with the concept and it really tells a compelling message visually. Nice work!

First off, I think the poster is extremely appealing - the colors and composition are great. The only things that immediately grab my attention as minor negatives are:

1) The strength of the shadows from the light cups seems to beg for a little shading on the top left. That big branch (and presumably tree) in the foreground would be casting a bit of a shadow on the traffic light, and a bit of shadow would also help to pop the bright green of the leaf from the similarly-toned yellow behind it.

2) The compositing on the recycle logo is throwing me off a bit - everything has such consistent shading and implied depth that the recycle logo feels extra flat by comparison. I think I'd try adding a tiny bit of spherize-curvature to the logo and then adjust the transparency effects to allow more of the texture of the light bulb to be visible so that it felt like part of the background rather than a limbo element sandwiched in an impossible space.

That said, it's very appealing and these are nitpickity.

The design is great. It conveys the message with simplicity and force, while also appealing to its target audience. The only thing I would change is for the yellow "think" to be white like the rest of the colors.

The recycle symbol should go AROUND/outside of the Green light and help it stand out. This may convey that recycling is done "outside" of normal habitually processes. Also, it could blend more with the "outside" world (branch behind it) since this is what recycling impacts?

As I said, I don't see the point of having yellow on yellow. It kind of breaks the flow, at least for me. Overall the whole piece is great, especially for a poster. This will no doubt catch the attention of many people especially since they see stoplights everywhere.

I see the "school bus" association - that would not work here in Australia as we don't have those stylised school buses.

Anyway my point is that it is a hard stop on hard logic. The trees soften it a little. I wonder if it needs a bit more emotion than the hard logic?

I can't suggest how to do that, but that's my feeling in terms of the market segment to which you are appealing.

Walter @g2m

I find no faults except what the above comments suggest. But overall its an original design that needs applause.

As long as it is placed somewhere where kids will immediately make the connection and can act on it it's great - i would actually put it on NON-recycling bins to stop kids throuwing away stuff that could be recycled. If it's on the recycling bins then you are preachin to the converted!

just make little small the signal

I absolutely love the look and feel of this poster. Everyone has shared great feedback from a designer's perspective, and I'm not that detail oreiented, LOL. You did an awesome job, and love the concept, and the loose leaf background. Very creative and visually impactful.

Nice idea and great impact. Talking about design: Why the THINK word is yellowish and the other 2 are white? Whay the recycle is in small letter and the other are in capital ones? I will consider it as an "error".

Also i don't feel the font used merge so well with rest and the recicle symbol also. You used a photorealistic kind of design and putting like this vectorial elements on it can be annoying.

Love the poster. Great use of a easily recognized icons, stop light (even for non-drivers) and loose leaf paper. Would like one for our office (since it would even work for us adults). Placement on/above non-recycle trash cans is a good thought. If I had to change one thing I might cut donw (or eliminate) the branches with leaves, especially the one at the bottom.

Stop and Think are all caps but not recycle.

Like it... it simple and proffesional at the same time. It accomplishes the purpose

Totally agree with everyone. Really love this work. It's great!

I really like this!

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Personally, I have to agree with most of the previous reviews: this design is really impressive, in its simplicity, its visuals and execution. It gets the message across clearly and in a creative way that kids will both understand and recall easily.

Besides, I'm all for going green. Everybody should be.

I also agree with changing "Think" to white, which I'm sure you've done by now but I also see that you've used the same little branch and leaves throughout the whole piece. I'm not sure if that's your original photography or not but it might be worth throwing in some imagery of alternate branches/leaves (of the same tree). Besides, it kind of throws off the lighting when you start using the same image at different angles. Otherwise, pretty awesome stuff! <3

I think you did a awesome job with this! The only thing i would say about this design is that. The word "think" is yellow in the yellow light. I would either change it to white, or make the others red and green.

Very good looking and attractive colors. looks really smooth and pro. Concept is also creative. well done!

it's beautiful

well done! it's beautiful.

I think overall this is a gorgeous, clever and clean design. I would agree with others, make "think" white.

My only suggestion: I like how the top 2 branches are very simple and not busy. The branch behind "recycle" is much busier (more leaves off-shooting from it), giving that bottom part a bit of a cluttered feel to it. Maybe just taking out a couple of the leaves would fix that. I also agree with a previous person saying to have the branch bleed off the page.

This is pretty minor though, I think this is just great. I would put it up if I was a teacher!

Its very cool. If I was in school I would stop think and recycle.

I agree with Velociraptor. I think the paper should be crinkled paper. First I thought maybe have some erased drawings or text in it too but I think that would make it too busy.

Consistency in type. Maybe blur the left branch to create depth (might even make it a little bigger at the same time is blurring it gives space for it).

And I would love to have it in our office too! Really enjoy this design :)

Impressive work. As some fellows mentioned, I'd love to have it on my wall.

I'll ask a small question: why is the text colour of "THINK" not white as others?

Very nice and clean. I love the look! My only suggestion would be to have the word think in white. Maybe you could make the words transparent and have them glow like they are lit up. Overall, very nice design!

It has a clear purpose and it simply quite beautiful. I love the traffic lights idea. It blends in well with the main message conveyed by the poster. Great work!

Excellent. Achieved objective, professional, eye catching.

great, clean, original design!

the leaves behind the green light are distracting, though. as is the recycle symbol.

you could put the recycle sign, perhaps using leaves, in the upper right hand corner or subtly embed the recycle symbol elsewhere on the page.

powerful idea, though.

Idea is great and I think it hits the spot exactly, but from design point of view there is some imbalance with the fonts/text imposed on the lights. The yellow one (text) does not stand out enough and seems to be smaller than STOP.

Keep the fonts/sizes consistent and it will be perfect.

I really like it, its original, visually pleasing, and eye catching.

Just i would change the red and yellow to black and write stop in red and think in yelllow

everything goes perfectly well with each other. i like your concept.

otherwise it is simple and straight to the point

This is a great ad, simple, powerful, yet effective. BUT YOU GOT LAZY ON THE DROP SHADOWS!

The shadows on the actual lights look good, but the text , you can tell you just right clicked > and applied shadow to the text layers.

It seems like an advertisement for a driving school honestly. more like stop, think, drive/learn/besafe. Very nice visuals though think seems a bit odd. too yellow since the other two are white.

So one could use the poster as scrap paper before recycling it. Strengthens the message, I believe.

Other than that, looks wonderful.

i like this one a lot. the only thing that sticks out (which is minor) is that he background in the notebook paper holes doesn't match the poster background. also if the paper edges were hard rather than faded, it would tend to frame the image and provide ' compositional repetition' of the rectangular shape in the poster....but i don;t really know how significant this would be.... maybe try it and see how it looks in comparison. it tends to be a shot in the dark for me! Xhuman