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What is Social Poster Design? 8 Significant Poster Designers Advice!
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- Answer these questions in your own words. type out, bring into class
- What is Cultural or Social Poster Design?
- How will poster design impact the world?
- Can designers communicate and change the world?
- What are the principles for a good poster design to be effective?
- Pick a social issues to base your poster on.
- Sketch the poster ideas. Sketches should fill up a large part of the page. This is a thinking/design exercise rather than personal crusade. Sketches can range from abstract designs to representational.
- Pick a single word or a line of text to go along with your sketches. You can hand draw the text or print it out using a specific font. If you print out the text, paste it into your sketch book. If you hand draw the type you can include it in with the sketches. These do not need to be final drawings just let me see that you are thinking.
WHAT IS A POSTER?
- A poster is a two-dimensional, single-page format used to display information and to promote people, causes, places, products, companies, services, or organizations.
- Most posters are meant to be hung in public places and to be seen from a distance.
- A poster must catch the attention of passersby while competing for attention with surrounding posters, billboards, signs, and other visual material.
- Like all other graphic design, the success of a poster depends on the right combination of word and image.
- The size of the image in relationship to the total design format can yield a powerful effect.
- Promotional design is distinguished from other forms of graphic design because it has the highest degree of persuasive intent.
SYMMETRICAL POSTER DESIGNS:
ASYMMETRICAL POSTER DESIGNS:
Nikki Mc Clure
BMCC Art 100, Professor Reinhardt 