SMH Museum

I came up with three different logo concepts, then made some logo designs based off of this concept. I wanted all the designs to be based on retro things that link with the poster ideas, so I made some retro radio designs, and a retro television, and some newspaper designs. These are my final three ideas for my logo, I am going to adapt some of them, but these were my favourites out of the ones that I came up with.

Poster 1 The idea behind this poster is that it shows news coming from a newspaper. The style I chose is a broadsheet, this goes along with the idea of news, also it is a quite iconic and easily recognizable style of newspaper Poster 2 This poster is meant to represent news being delivered through radio and tv. I wanted to do a sound wave style, as it shows the next evolution of delivering news, but is not boring and just has a picture of a radio or tv. Something that I like about this poster is that it is quite abstract  but people would be able to recognise what it is showing. Poster 3 For this poster I wanted to show social media and phones in a way that was more abstract and did not just have a phone or social media page shown. I decided to make a web like shape, this is supposed to represent the world wide web.

The first poster is going to be a broadsheet, and they contain lots of text so I have to plan out what is going to be written on it. I think that I am going to have information repeated multiple times. This would be: -Opening times (However not important on all posters) -Name -Tagline -Dates that it is open -Location These should be included on all of the posters, as it is quite important for the viewer to see, to be able to go to the event.

For the extra materials some ideas that I thought of was: -Social media for the exhibit -A website -Layout plans for the exhibit -A piece from what would be in the exhibit (I.e. a recreation of an old broadsheet) My favorite ideas are making a piece from the exhibit and the social medias. I like the social medias idea because it links to what the whole exhibition is about. I like the idea of making a piece for the exhibit because it gives a better idea of what my overall idea is for the exhibition. I think that I am going to do both because they are both quite easy to do, however I am going to leave it until after I have finished my posters and leaflets, as I would prefer to make sure that they are the best that they could be before moving on.

For the leaflet I want it to emulate a magazine, as this will link it to the news parts of the exhibition. I do however want it to be more exciting than a normal leaflet, so it would fold differently than a normal one, I want this because it will catch the viewers attention and make them intrigued. 

The exhibit would be split into 3 sections, each representing what each of the posters how, different stages of the evolution of news. So the first one would be broadsheets. This area would have recreations of old broadsheets, and show newer versions of them. There would also be information about broadsheets. The second section would be the next stage, which is tv and radios. This area would contain original old radios and televisions, these would be showing the information. The third and final section would be about social media. This are would contain big screens where people can view information on social media sites. There will also be snapchat codes/QR codes around the area, that people can use their phones to scan and can see extra information through these. I want the exhibit to be quite interactive and to contain lots of UX products.

To come up with a name for my exhibition I put in a word that links to the topic of it into a thesaurus and chose some words that I liked out of the ones given. For instance I put in the word ‘News’ and then chose some words like: Broadcast, Message, Data, Report, Newscast and Announcement. However I want the name to be quite short and snappy, as this will be easier to put onto my posters, and because it'll be easier for the audience to remember the name. My favorite name so far is ‘Link’, this is because it stands for how the news links people together.