Assigned: February 18th
Due: March 3rd
Conceptual goal
Create a poster featuring a leader in the arts or sciences who is no longer living. Design something that might be used on banners with an exhibit or in print, perhaps as a memorial feature of this person’s life and work. Select the best quality photograph or other image of this person and combine it with two or more images that illuminate the very best of the person’s life work, along with their name.
Assignment
The poster must include color, though you may start with black and white imagery. Color may be subtle, but integral. Use three or more blended and/or combined images that you have scanned/input and manipulated in Photoshop. Make the colors/tones of all your imagery work well together. Become familiar with Photoshop, coloring and styling the type of the leader’s name appropriately for your photo collage/montage. Use what you have learned about type and typography. You may want to explore tools for altering and blending photographic images and raster/bitmap type (vs. vector type). Consider the following when making your composite image: similarity of contrast, magnification of image (print size), light direction (shadows), color consistency. You may choose to use transparency (layer opacity), masking (paste into…), blending modes, gradients, feathering or other techniques for blending your images or portions of images together. Do not simply paste and reprint three separate images; they must be integrated, connected and relevant to the subject. You may scan fabric, textured papers, or 3-D objects placed on the flatbed scanner as some of your image sources. Explore suitable effects or textures for your type, and make sure your typeface is legible and the style and colors are compatible with your images and overall poster concept.
Progression
1. List name(s) of leaders you might feature, what you want to feature in the poster about this person, and which venue you might feature for your final project poster. (Include birth-death years?)
2. Consider the availability (or lack) of suitable images to highlight her/him & his/her work.
3. Select best 2 different refined digital mock-up/comps of your poster for pre-critique review
4. Critique of finished version, color digital version, at the beginning of class.
Specifications
Size: Approximately 16” x 20” (vertical or horizontal orientation), 300 dpi, designed in color (if square, 15” minimum size). Turn in a copy that is flattened, approx. 8 x 10 inches (or screen size) and 100 dpi in .pdf format, and one letter sized, b/w (cheap) laser print for marking changes/suggestions. Keep your larger, 16 x 20 (approx.) 300 dpi file with layers for your final project poster design & printing.
Use RGB mode for your Photoshop file. Do not flatten your original, but flatten large copy for printing and smaller copy file to turn in. Always keep your original file in the native Photoshop format w/layers, for later editing, changes or reworking.
Use photographs / images from a variety of sources. Many images from websites will not be of high enough resolution for quality poster size printing (unless you pay for them). You should scan quality images printed in books or magazines, but you will need to minimize the moiré pattern after scanning. All images must be of high quality and resolution. We should see no jaggies or pixelation in your color print. The combined images should all have the same resolution sufficient for poster printing.
Calculating scanning resolution: Start with the end. The resolution of the scans and file must be determined by considering the print size (in this case, a large-ish poster) and the capability of the color printer you plan to use to print your poster. Resolution for printing in Cruess is 200-300 dpi Use just enough resolution to get the needed print size and quality needed (without creating huge files).
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