Objective
- To develop an understanding of how a design plan is essential to go with technical skills
- Apply digital skills to your original design plan
This project will challenge you to design your own original event poster from research all the way through production.
Remember: All Epic Design Quests require documentation of your ENTIRE design process on a Behance Project Page. Be sure to become familiar with our design process before beginning any Epic Quest.
WARNING: Upon accepting this quest you will have 21 days to complete the quest. After that deadline the quest will be reduced by 50%!
To begin this project now you may click Accept.
Please keep track of time remaining before 50% Penalty goes into effect
ALWAYS read the entire quest before beginning to ensure you understand all requirements. Remember the process is worth at least half of the project grade.
Go to Behance and create a new Behance project page titled “Poster Design”.
Download and use this image as a placeholder for the cover image on your Behance page
Now copy and paste all 7 steps onto your Behance page. You will need to complete and correctly document these 7 steps on your design process:
- Understand the Problem
- Research and Investigate
- Generate Possible Solutions
- Select AND DEVELOP Best Solution
- Model and Prototype (Create)
- Test and Evaluate
- Produce
Basic Requirements
- Select an “event” to make a poster design for
- Our Theater Dept. needs a poster to publicize their production of “Beauty and the Beast”
- This choice would have a deadline of Feb 14
- You may also choose a real fictitious event, past present or future
- See Coulson for approval of your event choice
- Use creative problem solving for an inspired and original solution
- Use the ENTIRE design process to develop a design plan that is then executed
- One finished 18″ x 24″ poster design with original illustration, typography, and composition
PROJECT REQUIREMENTS & INSTRUCTION
Design Process STAGE 1: UNDERSTAND THE PROBLEM
Establish exactly what the assignment is and what is required to be successful
- What is your event?
- What is the purpose of the poster?
- What will you need to communicate?
- What will be the greatest Challenges you are going to need to face in the project?
Design Process STAGE 2: Research and Investigate
Always record your digital resources either as a cited source or a simple linked resource with documentation (notes, thoughts, images) on your project page.
Research Topics
Be very cautious not to look for design ideas to copy in your research, because that is plagiarism!
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- Similar Events
- Research Possible Themes
- Research your industry or story
- Who is your target market?
- Research creative poster design styles AND typography
- Locate at least one DESIGN STYLE that is NOT your event, but that you could possibly use in your design. post this design and add a couple of notes about what you like about it.
Resource Starting Points:
Design Process STAGE 3: Generate Possible Solutions
3. Brainstorm ideas for visual imagery representing elements of your topic — Show your brainstorming as idea webs, clouds, lists, found imagery, small sketches of elements (at least 25 ideas, words, elements, images, object… required)
- Brainstorm THEMES
- Consider symbols
4. Begin sketching thumbnail design layout ideas using your brainstorming for content.
- Sketch at least 3 completely different design solutions in your sketchbook.
- Thumbnail sketches should be about 4″ sketches in sketchbook
- should include rough drawings showing layout, sizes, and typography
- Designs should be ORIGINAL though inspired!
- while you will be allowed to trace some photos if you want, using illustrations from other people is not allowed at all
Design Process STAGE 4: Select and Develop Best Solution
5. Select the best design idea from stage 3
- notate why you have chosen it
- Finalize a new more detailed sketch of best solutions
- sketch the composition of your entire design plan
- Note possible color schemes and background imagery or textures
Design Process STAGE 5: Model and Prototype (Create)
Time to make it happen. Finally begin creating your design.
- Practice, develop or refine your composition and style.
- Execute your Plan.
- Take IN PROGRESS SCREENSHOTS showing your daily progress
Design Process STAGE 6: Test and Evaluate
7. Self-reflect on your design
- Reflect of how your composition and concept is developing into a final product.
- How could you take it further?
- Ask others for their opinions and document the suggestions whether you agree with them or not.
- Refine or develop elements of the design that can be improved.
Design Process STAGE 7: Produce
8. Export and Turn in the final .JPG and Print
- Turn file into the Coulson’s server
- Get final printed and matted
- Finalize Project Page with full self-reflection
- successes
- struggles
- improvements
- what you learned
- Fill our grade sheet
COMPLETE: You need a fully finished project page included all scanned sketchbook work with captions. Turn your your finished artwork to the Captain’s Server. Finally Paste the URL to your project page below and you may then click complete.
Bonus Stage
This Bonus Stage can be submitted times.
