One of the few problems that I had when I read The Hunger Games was the lack of description about most of the Districts. This did not really affect me in any way until I saw the Minimalist Travel Posters Based In Movies Assignment and I wanted to pick a District to create a travel poster for. I decided on District 7, where Finnick Odair, from Catching Fire and Mockingjay comes from. Although it has yet to be portrayed on film, it will play into Catching Fire when it is released in November.

District 7 is most notable in Panem for its fishing industry and its watery landscape, which I wanted to display in the poster. To keep it minimalist, I settled on focusing just on the water and intentionally chose not to put a fish in my image. I imported this image of a fish and a fish hook into GIMP and cropped out the fish. I then shifted the angle of the fish hook and recolored it before adding “District 7″ in Aaargh, which is becoming my ‘go to’ minimalist font.

I’m really starting to enjoy making minimalist posters and plan to make at least one more for the design challenges this week. They are trickier than they look and they have been a good way for me to learn how to use Gimp.