Speaking from experience,Crits to date,

CRIT 1
The initial crit was a case of proposing our ideas to a small group, presenting boards each explaining concept, content and delivery. I received encouraging feedback and reassured me that the poster/calendars were a suitable route to take.

CRIT 2
In a considerably smaller group this time, we were to present our progress with a physical response to the ideas we went away with. Only having a couple of designs, both looking at combining typographic definitions alongside a calendar feature.
This session was extremely beneficial to my progress, discussing the worries and developing ideas I had started to think about.
//One of my worries was keeping all the posters solely related to the anatomy of type. Although I wanted to revisit this area to reinforce my own personal knowledge, I'm not going to dismiss it entirely. - Instead, work on the series of calendar/posters addressing all the basic elements of graphic design throughout.
//As I'm looking at the organisational element on top of basic terminology, I felt the wall posters didn't address this as fully as I would like them too. At this point I thought about where I could/would possibly use a calendar to write on and keep track of stuff, leading me further to think about the big sheet of card I keep on my desk to scribble/lean on and protect the surface underneath. Ending up at the thought of screen-printing a big academic year planner onto the sheets of card presented to us in our packs at the start of the year. - Killing a few birds there with one sheet of card!
//Printing and stock was an issue that arose whilst discussing the execution of our final products. I want to print on a stock that replicates that real poster style finish, glossy and thin. Maybe even double sided to save on paper? The main problem being the print room is absolutely booked up until our deadline, hmm.

I may have to re-think producing such large poster designs and introduce the graphic design basics slightly differently...

Design is a VIRUS,Week 2 - feedback,

Consider monthly, annually, weekly? - One day easily comes and goes, a recurring event could get people more interested, allowing for a larger audience, more likely to respond positively.

Wednesday/Tuesday -  Tuesday kind of has a better ring about it opposed to the Wednesday, could make it a more regular thing. Thinking about making people remember, stronger communication...

Think about font, legibility, UPPER/lower case.

Digitised date? - Makes it harder to remember/relate to. Think about

Hyphenate do-day?
 
Hot-dog book? more detailed in the initial pages to explain to the user, poster on the back, keep people interested, put on fridge etc with more suggestions...

Design is a VIRUS,Initial Pitch feedback

After making our pitch on friday, the concept of attempting to persuade people to under-go little feel good tasks, taking them away from the stress and seriosness of the everyday working life went down well.

It was suggested we looked at more of an incentive based approach, exposing worrying facts and statistics about the workplace, and the effects working can have on a person. Scaring people into keeping their lives active and mind strong through minor 'feel good' things once in a while.

Have fun. It seemed as though in trying to get people to take a break from such serious work, we had taken a rather formal route in proposing to produce office based material etc.

Design is about doing,Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph,Opposites - ReWork

 

As a result of not paying full attention to the brief, the posters I took to the crit didn't exercise the use of typography to a great degree at all. After stripping back the image and incorporating simple characteristics into the type, I feel they work much better along with adhering to the brief.

Design is about doing,Letter, Word, Sentence, Paragraph,Crit feedback,

As the crit wasn't particularly formal, I didn't recieve an enormous amount of feedback but what I did get was positive in terms of progression and development. It was extremely useful in helping me realise what should become the focus of my posters.

The concept of using oxymoron's went down quite well, although it was motioned that they didn't particularly play on the type used. And as the project was more about the use of typography,they don't answer the brief nearly as well as they should/could of had I not got too caught up in trying to produce a witty set of posters.

Is the imagery entirely necessary for the posters to work and how could I try and use the typography to my advantage?