Riginica

Last week, I talked about the difference between gaudy and bold . Stacy Shield provides two examples of going bold in poster design. Click to enlarge! Red, black, and white. Talk about a striking choice of colours. The limited colour palette gives this poster an almos…

Last week , I showed a sweet poster from Desi Quintans . Desi added a great question in his email that I thought deserved its own blog post: I noticed that the posters that did well in real life were made with strong, almost gaudy colours. In particular, the ones wit…

Most of the time, I think my poster aesthetic might be described as Swiss style. That’s the period that saw the creation of Helvetica, for instance. It’s a style that is very spare and very organized , with lots of emphasis on grids. You can see it in this poster I ma…

Wearing black make you cool. Everybody knows that. But while black on black makes an awesome fashion statement, it is a terrible communication statement. I saw a poster earlier this year that had its title – the thing that is the only thing most people at a conference …

Colour on a poster is powerful, but can be difficult to use well. One of the problems I often see is that people create posters with deep, bright, saturated colours that cover large areas: It’s hard to get the full effect of this on a small computer screen, but those b…