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Creating an event poster and struggling.


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Hi fellow members I am struggling with a poster design.My idea pattern is as follows:An event that is called "An evening with Microsoft" - employees talk to students to motivate and empower./networking opportunity.I am not sure about color schemes. Im thinking a blue which is common with Windows 8. I am not entirely sure how to approach it. I have made a few designs but ended up deleting them. The premise is to be inspired.
 

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the main problem i see, is there's a lot of gray space not being used. it may be a good idea to up the font size a little.

and maybe use microsoft's logo, if you are permitted.

i'll get a little mockup of an idea i've got in my head, that you can maybe do, a little later :)
 
example of what you could do:
example.jpg

excuse the colours and fonts.

The blue looks good, I would possibly swap out the orange with green though, as I feel green is associated a little more with windows or Microsoft than orange.
 
Somehow I am just not feeling inspired by this poster. It doesn't grab my attention.

Do I have better ideas? IDK. I do like Zee's idea of the MS logo. You could even use it as a sort of large watermark instead of the grey area. I'll give it some thought . . .
 
Something along these lines maybe? "The evening with" text perspective doesn't work very well. Maybe just keep that straight. Just ideas.

MSposter.jpg

I would also suggest - wherever you put them - that you stagger the bullet points for what to expect.

Another variation:

MSposter.jpg
 
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Thank you all for your response. I have taken everything has been said. I agree the poster is not inspiring at all. In my mind i think can include something that inspiring (usain bolt). But it would take away from the posters meaning. Im going to open Photoshop and see what i can do. Thanks once again.

I changed the font throughout, i changed the color scheme as well.
 

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Way better!

But I am not pleased with the laptop. It cause iombalance and makes for too busy a composition. I recommend you remove it and make the logo bigger and lowered opacity or just take off the laptop and leave it as is. Maybe make the word "presents" bigger. It gets lost, though it is kind of implied anyway.
 
I have taken the laptop out and i agree didn't look right. Even though i say so myself, it looks much better. The top two logos will be changed for a better quality image.The bottom section seems to be missing.
 

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Yes, a great deal better. You may say so yourself IMHO!

I know I'm picky here, but I'm not a great fan of overall symmetry which you are getting as a result of having almost everything centered. Also, IMHO, lol.

One point in favor of that in the middle section is that it gives the combination of logo and text the illusion of a robot or a computer desk, which is kinda cool!


Oops, just noticed something: opportunities and experience are spelled wrong. Better proofread the whole thing carefully.
 
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