This poster was made for the lead volunteers to use to sign in during their visit. I was asked to create this poster and make it 17 x 11 inches. I based the design off of the CCM logo that I place in the top corner. Since the ministry's colors are purple and yellow I used those on the rest of the page. I continued the lines of the cross on the top and left side of the page to make a border to contain the information. I wanted to keep the design simple and use a lot of white space so that the information would be clearly visible and legible. This sign will be placed in the CCM building and used while HARTS uses the building. The purpose and the audience of this poster are clearly visible and stated. The poster is simple and there are no distracting elements and I think overall it is an effective poster.
The next poster we were asked to create was a floor plan of the building. We took a map that was on the HARTS website and edited it and changed it to fit the needs and requirements for this project. We wanted to make the rooms clearly visible and easy to find. We also wanted to clearly show which rooms were off limits so we filled them in with blue to make it stand out. We clearly stated the heading and each room name so that viewers could understand the purpose of the poster and we also put a key at the bottom for the off limits rooms. Since the HARTS organization has a lot of new people at new locations, we wanted to give these volunteers a clear guide to the building that they would be able to easily understand.
For the next sign, we were asked to create a map that clearly shows the emergency exits and fire extinguisher in case of any emergencies. This map is really important and needs to be easily readable for all viewers so that they can quickly locate the emergency exits and fire extinguishers without any confusion. We used the same simple map that we used in the previous poster to also minimize any confusion since the users would be familiar with it. We used dotted red lines to show the emergency exits to make it very prominent and we used little blue circles to show the locations of all the fire extinguishers. We added a key at the bottom of the page so the volunteers could understand exactly what each element is for and we placed emergency contact information at the top to make the numbers easily acessible to them. I think this map effectively shows it purpose and includes all the necessary components to make it logical for the viewers.
The final poster we were asked to make was for the locations of the appliances in the kitchen. I created this poster by sectioning off the kitchen from the previous map and enlarging it. I wanted to make it consistent with the other posters so I continued to use the red font and big red arrows to make everything clearly visible for the volunteers. The volunteers should not have to spend a lot of time trying to find all the appliances so we made it simple and everything clearly stated. This image will also be included in the HARTS volunteer manual to use as needed. We kept the words outside of the map so that the volunteers would be able to easily locate each appliance. I think this poster does and effective job at achieving its purpose.
