Due: 11:30, Friday, October 29

Objective: Explore the diversity of alignment to a grid structure.
Goal: Examine proportions.

category: type poster digital 2

To Do

1. 1. analyze
   2. design
   3. comment

 

1. analyze: design Influence

Embody the spirit of your designer.

Create a poster that will introduce your design influencer to viewers who are unfamiliar with your designer.

How does your influencer visually express their work?
typeface, structure, etc?

criteria

• • • • • Your poster should visually present information that will give the viewer a sense of your designer’s philosophy, history, anecdotes, etc.
          Look at your designer’s use of typefaces, grid structure, etc.
        • Convey contemporary design. It should not look “retro.”
        • This is not a summary of your research: Make sure that your poster doesn’t look like it could have been created in Word
        • Take advantage of the large size and presentation capacity of the poster format

2. design:   

1. 11×17″
5 columns horizontal and 5 rows vertical NO margin or gutter

2. Decide on the elements you will use in your poster.
Text: Use your design influencers name and quote
Break text into smaller units to emphasize meaning

3. Text:
one quote
designer’s name
designer’s medium/genre (print, web, furniture, etc.)
date

4.  Choose an area of the page for your viewer to focus on
A.  Break text into smaller units to emphasize its meaning
B.  Choose a typeface that your designer would use
C.  Create alignments
Use the grid to define the placement of your elements.
Do NOT center!

5.  Use 3-4 levels of hierarchy

6.  Create 4 different compositions

7.  Save as jpg and upload to OpenLab
category: type poster digital 2

Need inspiration: https://www.typographicposters.com/

example

1. 1. 1. 1. 1. 1. grid
               2. asymmetry
               3. alignment
               4. hierarchy

 

 

3. comment: on two different posters

suggestions:

Have they defined the grid? You should be able to see exactly where the grid lines are located

Have they created hierarchy?

What are they communicating?