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The first part is to design the poster for a (supposed) documentary film about the life of a graphic designer (as Courcerio did for Matter). For our critique, this will be printed on a tabloid sheet, 11 x 17, either horizontal or vertical, so it will have to be no less than 300 dpi at that print size. In addition the title and various images, the poster should also include some of the text components (which you may have to make up) that normally appear on a film poster, such as the filmmaker’s name (“a documentary film by…”), production studio, and so on.

 

The second part is to combine text and images in designing a stylistically correlated chronology (or timeline) of the person’s life. To some extent, this should be consistent visually with the style of the poster. In this part, the final result will be larger than the poster. We will design it to print on two or more 11 x 17 sheets, which might simply hang together as a series. Or, we could design them to be trimmed and then taped together as a single larger sheet.

 

Our lab printers do not print to the edge of the page, so you will have to leave a border of at least one-half inch on both the poster and the chronology sheets (although this might later be trimmed to simulate a edge that bleeds).

 

In the space below are examples of chronologies designed by previous students, dealing with a wide range of subjects.