Annette Liskey - Final Poster

My goal was to create a poster that explains to students how to find the combinations for their on-campus mailboxes.  This is the method that the client is currently using:

You can probably guess, it gets ignored a lot.

So, along I come with my slightly-more-readable poster draft:

Let's be honest, it's not really much better than the whiteboard.  At least the whiteboard author had an excuse - there's only so much a mortal person can do with a whiteboard and two markers.  I had no excuse for the plainness.  I needed color!

So, I lookup the HEX values for JMU colors (FYI - Purple #450084 and Gold #C2A14D) and pop over to my 2nd-favorite color making website, www.colorschemedesigner.com.  I plug in HEX value for purple into the RGB field to find supplementary colors.

I'm browsing through the different color wheel options (complement, triad, analogic, etc.) when I find this vibrant green and pink combination.

It's bold, it's attention-grabbing, it's...almost dangerous.  This is not the fail-safe little black dress.  Can I be trusted to use this sort of color wisely?  Sure, I tell myself, it's OK - I'm a trained professional (in training).

So, I did it.  I got crazy.  I used 3D and bevel effects, patchwork filters and even created a custom shape from some crazy mashup of circle-triangle-smaller circle.  So what if I crashed Illustrator and had to start from 40%?  It's not like I had any other plans that evening (sorry, Katie and Olivia).  Lesson learned: save versions, save often, and do not layer filter effects!

Deadline comes and I'm uploading the document, adding a comment about choosing the eye-catching colors when I realize that I've misused the colors.  A last-minute change?  Do I dare?  Fortune favors the bold, or at least the foolish, so I make one final edit.

Here is my final poster, and the almost-final one I did not submit.  Guess which one I submitted.

Poster Changes

I was still not super happy with my poster, so I am looking for feedback, as I want to use this as a guide for my brochure.  I am taking advice to mute the purple a little bit and add alignment.  I did two versions, one straight and one angled.  Any and all feed back appreciate, even if just to say you like/don't like.  These are not final and I need to work on spacing (making sure corners are equal space, etc..) but depending on feedback I will fix that (if you all dislike, not worth changing).
Thanks

Rust- Visualizing a Process

Creating a visual representation of a process without any text. An activity from Ralph Wileman's Visual Communicating book, page 53, Exercise X. 

E. Anderson ATM Visual

I made all of the images expect for the ATM in the upper left, the pig, and the hand.  I used PPT and made one slide per step.  I also broke step 6 into 3 parts, so everything could be the same size.