Design a poster series for a lecture about your translation animal/insect/plant.
Pick a Zoo/Museum/Place, etc.
Your poster will be for a specific lecture at a specific zoo or museum or park, etc.
Choose a zoo/place that has your animal.
You must gather:
1. Full Zoo Name
2. Zoo Address
3. Zoo hours of operation
4. Time and Date of Event in the year 2021
Scholar
Find a real scholar who has written and lectured about your animal or insect or plant.
Write
The name of the lecture and the speaker
A blurb about the lecture that summarizes the subject of the talk —20-30 words.
Design
Design a poster that advertises your event. The poster must include all information about the zoo and event and the translation you choose to use from project #6. The design should be colorful, exciting and dynamic.
The poster must include the following:
1. Information (see above)
2. Translation or Translations
3. 3 Colors Only (black is a color, white is not)
4. Visual Texture: this is a background element that supports and informs the foregrounded elements. Can be abstracted, photographic, linear, translucent, etc.
Program
Adobe InDesign
Typefaces
Garamond, Baskerville, Didot, Century, or Helvetica
Colors
Three colors from the Pantone Solid Coated collection or an Adobe color theme..
Dimensions
Tabloid format vertical (11″ x 17″), and tabloid format horizontal (17″ x 11″) and square format (11″ x 11″)
Due Tuesday, October 27th by midnight
Blog Post
category: ‘translation poster text’
titled: Poster Text
Post the complete text of your poster to the blog.
Poster Text as Title, Your Zoo name, Address, Hours of Operation, Lecture name, Speaker, Blurb of subject of lecture, Date & Time
Due Thursday, October 29th
Create a tabloid format vertical (11″ x 17″) zoo poster using your text and translations.
Three colors only (tints are ok) + white if wanted.
Consider overlaying translations for visual effect.
Consider your other translations tinted in the background.
No photographs.
Use only the five classic typefaces.
Let the type structure itself. Think of hierarchy of type.
Using InDesign only.
Save as an indesign file to Dropbox. Title it 08 Poster_Vertical_lastname.indd. We will critique on screen in class.
Due Tuesday, November 3rd – Group A
Due Thursday, November 5th – Group B
Second critique of vertical poster layout. Save as an indesign file to Dropbox.
Create two other posters using the tabloid format horizontal (17″ x 11″) and square format (11″ x 11″) using your text and different translations/photos/colors from color theme. Title posters 08_Poster_Horizontal_lastname.indd and 08_Poster_Square_lastname.indd
Due Tuesday, November 10th
Final critique of all 3 poster layouts. Export as a PDF under the File Menu and upload to Dropbox.
Due Thursday, November 12th
All 3 posters due as PDFs to dropbox folder titled: 08_Poster_Vertical_lastname.pdf, 08_Poster_Horizontal_lastname.pdf, 08_Poster_Square_lastname.pdf