Poster Workshops Timeline Digital Poster Draft Tips Sept

Poster Workshops Timeline: Digital Poster / Draft Tips: Sept. 25 Printmaking (with Demo & techniques): Sept. 30 Printmaking (poster creation final): Oct. 2

Straw Hat Press / Goat Farm Arts • Straw Hat Press is run by its three owners & Master Printers: Laura Cleary, Shaun Mc. Callum, and Ashley Schick

Labor /Protest Posters Examples

Labor /Protest Posters Examples

Labor /Protest Posters Examples Agitate, Educate, Organize Timothy W. Drescher

Tips for designing posters • Bold, graphic, high-contrast imagery • Bold, simple text. It will be complicated to carve out lots of small text in your prints, so having simpler text or limited text is best

A powerful thing for relief printing is having a dark and light area meet. • http: //www. johnlovett. com/test. htm • http: //blogs. smithsonianmag. com/food/files/ 2009/10/pie-318 x 400. jpg • http: //www. novakart. com/images/photos/W ayne-Thiebaud_Half. Cakes-etching. jpg

How do we accomplish this look in Adobe Illustrator? • Installing Custom Fonts • Using “Live Trace”

You are not limited to the fonts installed with Illustrator • http: //www. patrickstjohn. org/node/20 http: //www. fontsquirrel. com/fonts/list/style/Stencil http: //www. fontspace. com/category/protest • You can install custom fonts through “Fontbook” on the computers In the Multimedia Lab. -

Where do I get access to Illustrator? • Multimedia Lab- open anytime the library is open. - Help desk available. • Don’t forget you can always get free 30 day trials of Adobe software online. • 30 day trials are often enough time to get a project done!