Posters

Posters are one of the graphic design elements which have a key purpose to attract the audience with a clear message. Before designing a poster you need to ensure that you first have a plan on where the information will go and that must express the message and represent that poster. Once you have planned the aspect of the text, now think about the main information and an image that could express your message visually and whether you will be using imagery on a large scale or a much smaller scale. In addition, think about the bright colours to see whether it will express the mood or emotion that you want. Once you have completed the poster, you need to think about how you’re going to display your poster and whether it will print on different paper successfully. Overall, you need to see the cost “pay careful attention to balance and proportion”

An iconic poster could be by the painter artist called Edward Munch. He was born on 12th December 1863 in Loton. Munch moved with his family to the city of Oslo (1864), that’s when his mother dies after four years of tuberculosis. His sister at the age of 15 died in 1877, his second sister spends most of her life for the reason of being a mental illness and his brother died at age 30. This was a disaster in Munch’s life he found it so difficult to live.

Munch stared to attend a technical college to study engineering in 1879 but he was interested in art and that’s why he left college just a year later. In 1878 he hired a studio including six other artists and from there he entered into the first show in industries Art Exhibition. 

Munch received a scholarship three years later and travel to Paris for three weeks. After returning Munch started working on his new paintings naming one ‘The Sick Child’. This work represented Munch’s break from the realist style, it symbolically depicted the emotions that surrounded the death of his sister.

[Online] Available at: http://www.biography.com/people/edvard-munch-9418033 [Acessed: 11th May 2013]

[Online] Avilable at: http://www.cis.rit.edu/htbooks/dtp/projects/poster/poster1.html  [Accessed: 11th May 2013]