The poster that I decided to use for my final piece was the original one that
I made, based on designs and typographic usage from the 80s. The first
thing that I decided on, since it was a typography-based project, was the
text itself to go onto the poster.

The font used for the word “TYPE” is called Intro font, specifically the
Blackline version. I used this as it fit the style being a strong, bold font, and
the inside line on the font gave for a better effect since that was a trend
common in the 80s. I decided to give these posters a subtitle and went for
“Through the Ages”. It fit my personal project by linking into me having a
range of designs for different eras, and allowed me to show off multiple
types of typography for a certain time period. The font I used for this
subtitle is called Outrunner, a font made specifically to mimic the cursive
subtitle fonts used in a lot of 80s poster designs, primarily ones in this style.

The next aspect of design that I worked on to bring it all together was the background. This was important as it linked in the whole style and made it a fully fledged 80s poster. The first thing I created for the  design was the sun. This was a simple shape to make,  creating a circle and having lines of gradually less width  cutting through them, and then applying a pink and  yellow gradient. A light yellow drop shadow was applied  after which helped bring all the colours together and give it a soft glow. For the grid, I manually drew out the lines and applied a light pink glow to them to make them stand out more. For the background behind that, I used gradients, colours and a stock photo of space to give it the same effect as posters it was inspired by, Finally, to bring the full design together, I applied a film grain filter over the full thing. This kept the background colours a bit more muted as they stood out too much at first, and the film grain effect  itself was visually there and fit the inspiration and completed the poster.