Chili Poster Final Layout

Here is the final layout for my Chili Poster design.  Getting this together took a little extra effort because I have CS4 on my pc so I had to convert it and do a little extra work to get it to run on the CS3 software in the lab.  The next step will be to print this out as a 11 x 17 poster and then mat it for presentation.

My advice on this piece had been to add an echo image of the chili pepper fading away just beside the original but with just black and white that would have been extremely hard so what i did was add another pepper but mirrored and resized it to add a bit of variety and balance to the whole thing.  During our critique I was told that I should adjust the Chili Cook-off Header by removing the frame and underline and resizing it to take up more of the space.  Also the boxes at the bottom had some formatting issues that need to be touched up.  Other than that I'd say I really like the look of the poster.  To me it is nice and clean and easily legible and that's what I was going for.  If I could change anything that I'd done it would have been a more creative design, we were the ones picking them out though, because there were a few people who had just great ideas so even if there layout was a bit funky their posters still looked fantastic.