Jen's Poster Draft

I decided to do my poster on how to cook spaghetti squash.  I always forget what to set the oven at and how long to leave it in the oven.  So, I decided to create a poster that I could frame and hang in my kitchen that was decorative and informative.  I started off my choosing my color scheme.  I found that it was really hard to get the right color yellow for the spaghetti squash.  I used a new online tool that I found to help me with my color palette.  It's an online color wheel.  Very cool.  Here's the link.  Once I had my colors, I started drawing all of my graphics in Illustrator.  This was the most time consuming part.  But, I wanted them all to match and it gave me a good excuse to keep practicing my graphic design skills.  I made sure that all of my graphics were within the color scheme.  Next, I picked my fonts.  I decided to use a font family called "Charcuterie."  It just seemed to scream out "kitchen" and "cooking" to me.  I played around with arching the text around a big spaghetti squash at the top, but that ended up making my poster too long.  So, the only fancy thing that I did with the font is overlay the same words to give it the dual color effect.  For queueing I used numbers and colored them red to draw the eyes there.  I tried to alternate laying the steps out from left to right down the page.  I also tried to keep the steps very close to their pictured actions so that the proximity was good.  In terms of repetition, I used the same colors.  I used the same general shapes in the flourishes around the words.  And, I tried to keep all of the utensils going at roughly the same angles. The images in the poster are representational, interpretational, and when taken all together, organizational.  I was going to add a graphic at the bottom that compared the nutritional value of spaghetti squash to regular pasta, that would have been transformational, but it seemed that the poster was already getting long.  I welcome any feedback.  Thanks!