Part one, complete. I have designed a poster to thank the great Salvado D’Amate for his contribution to my life, and I guess other people as well, for inventing glasses. I have used the visual language that you would expect to find in places such as opticians, and think this poster would be displayed in such places.
The layout of my final piece for Thank You is very much dictated by the official constraints of the Snellen eye chart. The font that is traditionally used in eye charts is Courier Bold, and the top most letter measures 88mm in height. I then had to work out the sizing of the rest of the letters from this, and could do this using a few simple calculations.
The main problem I had with this unit was trying to fit a comprehensive sentence into the word count allowed. This forced to really compromise on what I could put onto the poster, and had to shorten a lot of the words down. I feel that despite this, I managed to adequately get across the message I was trying to say.
I have used Helvetica Bold down the side of the sight chart to dictate the distance to which you are supposed to be able to view the writing from, this is the font used in official sight charts, and has added to the overall visual language of the piece.