Deck 9: Posters

Question 1

What is the purpose of posters?

Answer 1

Posters are used to inform (display information, data, schedules, or offerings) or to persuade or promote (causes, places, events, people, brands, programming, films, companies, services, entities, or organizations).

Question 2

How do you know which visualization method to use?

Answer 2

Students' answers should imply that the design concept drives the visualization method.

Question 3

Should posters in a series share a common vocabulary? If so, why?

Answer 3

Yes. A common vocabulary of form across the posters will create correspondence.

Question 4

How can a designer unify a poster series?

Question 5

When you compose a single surface intuitively, without the use of a structural device such as a grid or the rule of thirds, what are some issues to consider?

Question 6

The poster's predecessor was called a broadside. What were broadsides used for?

Question 7

How do you use a poster to communicate a concept to an audience?

Question 8

How can a poster be used as a social commentary?

Question 9

Which of the following basic guidelines should you adhere to when designing a poster? Select all that apply.

A) Grab attention.
B) Set it apart.
C) Always design the communication from the top down.
D) Give the type and images equal emphasis.
E) Communicate key messages.

Question 10

According to designers Alice Drueding and Joe Scorsone, how do you begin to design a poster?