A Review of Paper Recycling Poster for Schools by Akhil Patel

Nudge text and perspective

  • Akhil Patel

    Akhil Patel

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    • Engagement: 5
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    Nudge text and perspective

    Posted on Aug 22, 2009 at 1:15 AM

    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.

    • Adana Jimenez
      Adana Jimenez commented:
      Posted: on Aug 24, 2009 at 9:00 AM

      2) The perspective::: ha! really good point Akhil, i think I was really focus on finding a traffic light that visually reminded me of a school bus, not so much the perspective. Really good observation!

      1) The text "Stop" and "Think ::: Got it! :)

    • Curtis Schlough
      Curtis Schlough commented:
      Posted: on Nov 03, 2009 at 9:03 AM

      A possible solution to Akhil's coment would be to cut the light sections apart and just use the top one on all three. That way you have the exact same perspective on all three. Of course you would have to change the colors to get the yellow and green again. I love the poster by the way. The message is clearly conveyed! And that is the point afterall. I love the background and the color palate. Soft and appropriate allowing the art to pop. The only thing I would maybe play with is Capitalizing R in Recycle for consistancy and taking the recycling icon and shrinking it down and placing it slighty above the word recycle. I think the icon is a bit lost behind the word creating some clutter. Just some thoughts. Heck, I like it as is really. LOL