PROJECT 1.1:INSTRUCTABLE POSTER
March 11| 2026
NAME: Miao Xinjun
STUDENT I.D: 0379525
Information Design / Bachelor of Design in Creative Media/ Taylor's University
Project 1.1:Instructable Poster
TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Instruction
2. Process
2.1 Selected Recipe - YouTube Link
2.2 Sketches
2.3 Color scheme
2.4 Completion
3. Submission - Final Outcome
4. Feedback
5. Reflection
INSTRUCTION
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1.1 Lecture
2. Instruction
2. PROCESS
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2.1 Selected Recipe - YouTube Link
Before starting Project 1, we first need to select a video from Pasta Grannies' Homepage as the theme and basis for our poster presentation.
- The Selected YouTube Recipe Video:
https://youtu.be/nP70SrnWTw0?si=OS6lAPO0zkINw73O
2.2 Sketches
To help with the subsequent work, I organized the content and steps of the recipes I selected.
- Recipe Contents - How to cook Puglia Bread
1. Prepare the dough: For every kilogram of durum wheat flour, use 1/4 cubic meter of yeast. Slowly add room-temperature water and about 2 teaspoons of salt. The amount of water added should be about 70% of the flour weight. Then mix it into a sticky dough and leave it to ferment overnight. (You can gently press the dough during fermentation to help it rise.)
2. Preheat the oven (20–30 minutes) : Place olive branches inside and light the oven.
3. Prepare the filling : Chop the pumpkin, cherries, tomatoes, onions, and black olives without removing the pits. Then add a generous amount of olive oil and salt.
4. Mix everything together : The dough for making Sheblasti (Greek: “unshaped”) must be very wet. Mix the dough with the fruit and vegetable mixture and stir evenly. At this stage, you can add more olive oil if you like.
5. Clean the ashes : Wipe the bottom of the oven with a cloth.
6. Shape and place into the oven : Divide the dough into several portions and spread them onto the baking paper. Traditionally, before baking paper existed, people used fig leaves. Then place them flat into the oven with an iron peel.
7. Close the oven door : Make sure the door is tightly sealed.
- Sketch 1
With Mr. Kannan's permission, I decided to use Procreate to create my poster.
The recipe was about baking Puglia bread. After organizing the recipe, I quickly started sketching the first draft to present my poster layout ideas to the instructor as soon as possible.
When conceiving my first poster draft, my idea was to show the viewer the main steps in making Puglia bread. Since this was my first time sketching this poster, to avoid the content appearing disorganized and lacking focus, I tried to highlight only the most important and key steps, following visual visualization principles.
I've chosen to highlight the three steps I consider crucial: making the dough, mixing the fruits and vegetables with the dough, and placing the dough in the oven. Meanwhile, the step of 'processing the water and vegetables' is presented as secondary information, shown between steps one and two.
- After First Feedback
After Mr. Kannan showed me my first draft, I improved it based on the feedback I received. Specific improvements included:
1. All materials could be depicted as if in use, which would make it easier for viewers to browse and understand. For example, a wine bottle could be shown being poured, rather than just being placed to the side.
2. Some steps were not drawn in the first draft, but they could still be drawn as separate steps in the poster, such as preheating the oven and preparing fruit. Otherwise, the poster might feel incomplete and hinder the viewer's reading experience.
3. For step 5, 'Spread the dough on parchment paper or leaves,' adding the different types of containers available as supplementary information can help the reader understand.
Based on my improvement goals, I created two new drafts. In draft 2 and draft 3, I experimented with two different compositions to convey the information. Ultimately, I chose draft 3 because I found it clearer and more readable.
- Selected Sketch:
2.3 Color Scheme
After completing the draft, I began working on the poster's color scheme.
I prefer to find color schemes that produce better visual effects through experimentation; therefore, I planned to create two different color schemes based on my chosen draft.
- Color Scheme 1:
First, I experimented with a dark background paired with other brightly colored elements, hoping the dark background would help highlight these elements. For the use of elements such as the title font, food, and kitchen utensils, I referenced the 'dopamine color scheme,' primarily using highly saturated green, pink, and yellow in a harmonious color combination.
Of course, the proportions of these three colors in the poster image cannot be equal, as this would result in a poor visual effect. Therefore, I consciously allocated different proportions of each color, with pink having the largest proportion; it was used for labeling step numbers and titles, as well as decorative text at the bottom of the poster.
2.4 Completion
3. SUBMISSION
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4. FEEDBACK
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First Feedback (week 5)：
Second Feedback (week 6)：
Third Feedback (week 6)：
5. REFLECTION
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