Introduction:

We chose to make a poster for the Appalachian mountains, because it allowed us to build off of the rustic American spirit that the name West Virginia inspired in us. So we went ahead and looked up significant words associated with the Appalachians and West Virginia like poverty, mining, mountaintop, coal mining,  and Appalachian culture in general. After learning what the area was like we knew what we could capitalize on, on a travel poster. The inspiration from bechance helped us to create a layout in our ideation books and we then went into photoshop and put in the bare bones and edited it down and continued to add little details and then we decided we could go a completely different direction. We then went on to make two posters with distinct similarities but were very different and even though we really liked both of the designs we went with, we had to pick one of them. It wasn't the first or second of our ideas, but we put the good in and took out the bad of the other posters and made a piece that both me and my partner agreed upon.

The differences in these two final comps was that we decided to move the bird so that text would wrap around it and remove the flag. We also decided that by changing the blue sky the poster would have a warmer more welcoming feeling.