Three Posters - ideas

Brief:

Produce a series of three posters that presents what visual communication is from a personal, historic, and visual perspective.

1. Personal poster

Idea:

A vignette based around some form of signage.

Notes:

The instructions say that the personal poster should "present some aspect of (my) view of what visual communication is". So, fundamentally, I believe visual communication should convey a message of some description.

For my personal poster I'm going to try and portray a Facebook story from 2018 where a man in Thailand couldn't, from the signs, work out which door lead to the men's toilet.[1]
(I think that sometimes an idea can be illustrated in the negative, just as clearly as in the positive)

2. Historic poster

Idea:

Produce a poster in the style of Karel Martens.

Notes:

I share a love of numbers with Karel, so I would like to create a design which uses a number system.

I found there are 'Catalan Numbers' which could lend themselves to a design somehow, perhaps incorporating the Catalan flag, which is very simple (red and yellow stripes).

However, when I researched this in the book 'Fibonacci and Catalan numbers: an introduction' [2] I learned that Catalan numbers are not at all a simple number sequence such as the Fibonacci numbers once employed by Karel.

It wasn't a complete bust, though, as whilst reading the book I discovered that there's a relation between Catalan numbers and Pascal's Triange - and that itself looks a whole lot more promising for visualisation, perhaps as a Christmas tree?

3. Visual poster

Idea:

Create a vignette that contains a poster in prominent placing.

One idea was a French war poster stuck prominently to the side of a French house.

I also had the idea of two characters conversing under the shadow of a war poster that says something like, "careless talk costs lives".

References:

[1] Ong T. (2018) Man in Taiwan confused by elephant & giraffe symbols on toilet doors, seeks help from Internet
Available at:
https://mothership.sg/2018/10/taiwan-toilet-elephant-giraffe-sign/
(Accessed: 19 November 2025)

[2] Grimaldi, R.P. (2012) Fibonacci and Catalan numbers : an introduction. 1st edition. Hoboken, N.J: John Wiley & Sons.