Before vs After

B is the stronger of the two options, but two things hold it back. First, the signpost sits in the sky, yet its base casts a shadow that says it’s planted in the ground making the scene contradict itself. Second, the five posts-cards repeat the five signs. Every city is shown twice, and the repetition fills the whitespace the signpost needs. Together, they feel like two directions forced into one screen. To redesign it, i recreated the signpost from a low angle, looking slightly upward. That keeps the sky as the background, because it’s actually what you see looking up, and it resolves the contradiction. Each city also carries its country flag for easy identification, and without the posts-cards, the signpost had the whitespace it needed. While exploring, I ended up with two layouts. The left frames the sky in a card while the right lets it run full width behind a bottom sheet.