Typology - selecting a final idea

In response to the brief we had to generate and visually explore a minimum of 10 ideas that would work as themes for our typology posters. I struggled to find many that would compel an audience as well as provide content for 26 images and all the letters of the alphabet. Here are some of my best ideas that I considered to use for the final poster - 

The annoyances of being just a little too small or just a little too tall

For this idea I created two characters - one that was very tall and another that was very short - and illustrated them getting into exaggerated daily situations in which their heights inconvenienced them. In the crit, my partner liked that this idea was character driven and contained almost a narrative. I think this theme also contains a lot of opportunity for humour and appeals to my personal taste in illustration; however I struggled to find enough content to provide something for letters A through Z.

The countryside

I grew up in the countryside, so this was a more personal take on the brief. My partner in the crit suggested that this had real opportunity to be a nice idea if I focused on creating a calm and cosy tone to the illustrations, as well as basing it on my own personal experience of the countryside. I agree that this idea has potential, however, it did not personally thrill or motivate me enough to take it forward.

The circus

This again was a sort of personal approach to the brief, as I used to go with my family to a traditional circus a lot when I was younger. I really enjoyed creating some of the drawings for this, especially the acrobats and trapeze artists, however I felt like it did not have the most potential out of my ideas. It would just be drawings of things you find in a circus, and would not contain anything much more interesting.

Idioms

My final idea is to do the A to Z of idioms. When I was discussing and presenting this idea to people, many did not know what an idiom was so I searched up the definition -
-- a group of words established by usage as having a meaning not deducible from those of the individual words.
I want to use this theme for my final poster because I think illustrating the literal meaning of idioms has the potential to create a piece full of humour and character. I also managed to get a dictionary of idioms, so I will not struggle to find content for the 26 images and phrases that match each letter of the alphabet. I really like the relationship that illustrating the literal meaning of these phrases creates between the text and the image, as well as the fact that these phrases are collective knowledge making them relatable to everyone. In order to develop this idea, I need to start working to refine my illustrations, so that they best reflect the literal take of the idioms, as well finding appropriate media to achieve the fun, animated and humorous tone I want the poster to take.