Session: Tuesday, April 22nd, 2025

In-class Activity: 

From 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm ( (Individual Feedback on Draft 1)

DRAFT 1 of Poster DUE TODAY (Specs 11 x 17)

From 7:15 pm to 8:30 pm (Digital Ebook Book Feedback)

Bring Draft 2 of the Digital eBook for Feedback as well.

Session: Friday, April 25th, 2025

  • Poster Size: 11 inch x 17 inch
  • .25-inch border all around
  • Text: Required
  • Add QR Code
  • The name of the designer should be spelled correctly.
  • ONE image of the designer’s work as a signature.

Design Hero: Design a poster advertising an exhibition or retrospective of their work in a gallery or museum. If that’s the case, you must include the venue and its address, the dates and other pertinent information.

For example: The Design Sketches and Development of the NYC Subway Poster by Massimo Vignelli is on view at The Municipal Art Society of New York   457 Madison Avenue, New York, NY 10016 from May 24 – June 30 (Date can be fake or copied from another event in the past)

If you choose to design a tribute poster:

Include an applicable “sponsor” of your project

For example: Published by the Transit Museum Boehrum Place, Brooklyn New York © 2019.

YOU’VE ALREADY DONE THE RESEARCH ON YOUR DESIGN HERO, SO YOU MAY ALREADY HAVE A SIGNATURE WORK TO INCLUDE; YOU’RE ALSO AWARE OF THEIR TREATMENT OF FONTS, LAYOUT OR DESIGN. Use this to your advantage.

If your poster is linked to an event, include the date and place of the even must be included

Follow these steps:

Do them in this order and you’ll be fine.

1) Draw a grid

2) YOU’VE ALREADY researched content—organize the text of what you want to say and the image you intend to use.

3) Decide on the fonts and download them. Get the bold and italics; print the full alphabet in a few sizes: 16, 24, 36, and 60 points.

4) Only one color and black. Choose a color you “like” with the understanding that it will change as you create tints with tints of black. This will be a quick scaffolding project.

Over the next sessions, we will work on each of these components.

Learning Outcomes

  • Targeted research about a graphic designer’s life, work and times
  • Informative screen presentation with well-organized visual elements
  • Clear, concise, and effective oral presentations
  • Use of color, tint,s and effective typography
  • Organizational layout skills, working with the grid.

Instructions

  1. Make a grid, regardless of which presentation application you intend to use. Import it into the application and line up your images and caption text.
  2. Keep the text to a minimum since you will be delivering the information verbally when presenting it.

EXAMPLES:

HOMEWORK:

Submit your Draft 2 of Poster & Ebook Draft (Work in Progress PDFs) to the Openlab by Tuesday, April 29th, 2025.