This is the wallpaper from project #1 to use in my poster composition.

It is a furniture show, so I knew I wanted to incorporate some piece on furniture into the poster composition.

I really had no idea what I wanted to do for the poster, so I open Illustrator and started laying out a composition of shapes to perhaps stimulate an idea.  I also added the elements of my wallpaper and the chair.

An idea came to me that I could use a picture of ruled paper in my design.  I would set the type so that it would follow the lines of the ruled paper.

To evoke the idea of architecture I added a blueprint image into the background of the composition.

The wallpaper element is pushed to the very back and is overlapped by the blueprint, then the ruled paper.  I set the type so that it would follow the lines of the ruled paper.  The chair is their to evoke the idea of furniture.

After discussing my poster with Michelle, we decided that the idea of blueprints and ruled paper was perhaps a little to stereotypical or basic.  

I found a cutaway illustration of a chair and decided to use it in my poster.  I did not want the realistic image so I brought into Live Trace and created a traced image of multiple colored layers.

To play along with the idea of the construction of a chair or piece of furniture, which I was getting at with the cutaway illustration, I added another image.  I brought the image of nuts and bolts into the Live Trace tool as well and added it to the poster.

This is the first composition I produced with the new idea.

In the first composition the weight was too much on the bottom of the poster so I brought the chair, nuts and bolts up a third of the height of the poster.  I placed the white circle there to focus the attention on the main idea of the poster or to catch your eye.  Moved the wallpaper to the outer edge of the darker color.  I stayed with the same colors because I felt they worked well and played with the type a little bit more. The logos were moved to the bottom of the page as well.