Goal: Organize to communicate
Category: Parks poster 3
Homework
3 posters
1 Choose your best poster
Revise it to show proportion, alignment, and hierarchy
2 Create 3 posters in total
3 Save as your name Parks poster 3 A, Parks poster 3 B, and Parks poster 3 C
4 Take screenshots, showing your grid
Save as “your name Parks poster 3 A ss ”
“your name Parks poster 3 B ss,”
“your name Parks poster 3 C ss”
5 Post in the CORRECT category so that you will get credit for homework
* Category sticky: Student homework completed
* Category: Student homework completed > Parks Poster 3
6 Comment on two posters about proportion
2 images
1 Choose 2 Gordon Parks images that “relate” in some way to your quote
Use the link below to help find images
2 Save them as jpgs and upload to Miro at the beginning of class
https://openlab.citytech.cuny.edu/comd1200-spring2021-childers/2021/01/27/gordon-parks-a-cultural-icon/?preview_id=3930&preview_nonce=df5e1c7635&post_format=standard&_thumbnail_id=3949&preview=true
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Previous class
Poster Requirements
Convey the excitement of contemporary design
to an audience of designers and students.
Size: 11 x 17
Your poster must be purely typographic:
No colors, shapes, and lines
A viewer should be able to easily understand your text.
Consider your typographic hierarchy.
schedule
week one: First draft, structure and type
week two: Second draft, image and color
week three: final presentation:
Review: To create a new InDesign poster page
1 Open Indesign size: 11×17″
NO facing pages
Pages: 1
Columns: 5
Column gutter 0
Margins: 0
2 When open go to Layout > create guides
Rows: 3
Gutter: 0
You now have your grid
3 Put a 1 point black rule around the entire document
4 Import your quote
5 Align your text
Align several differents items to one gridline
MUST DO
* YOU MUST ALIGN
The first letter or the last letter of each line of text much touch the gridline
* DO NOT CENTER
Do not have an equal amount of space above or below your text
Do not have an equal amount of space to the left or the right of your text
Poster
Gordon Parks played many roles
Choose a quote that relates to an issue close to your heart.
https://www.inspiringquotes.us/author/5742-gordon-parks
https://www.brainyquote.com/authors/gordon-parks-quotes
Do more with less
1 Use proportions
Cluster your type around one of the horizontal rules for emphasis
2 Choose a typeface that honors the quote
Break the sentence into phrases and place it on the 5 column grid
Either, the beginning or the end is of each line of type
must be directly on the vertical grid line
The edge of the page is NOT a grid line
Two items must align to create a relationship
Only use type, not shapes or images
Only three sizes and styles of type
Only black or white
3 Don’t be a slave to the document.
For example, the name does not have to be at the top of the poster.
Instead of making one big text box,
break it into phrases and place position it for emphasis.
example:
Inspiration
kendrick lamar’s Gordon Parks video
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