Manifesto: A public declaration of policy and aims.
In 1998, designer Bruce Mau created a manifesto that articulated his values and those of his design studio. That studio design and innovation studio centered on purpose and optimism.
Choose one of the maxims from that manifesto and create a poster using all the text from it.
As a finish to this project, we’re going to expand the strongest of your studies into a series of posters, one for each woman (or Mars rover).
In the end, you’ll have a final set of 3 posters that share a visual language and each tell us about a different person (or Mars rover).
Create another set of studies from these options.
Create two posters for the variable type prompt. And three studies from any combination of the other prompts.
Dimensions are the same as before. Color restrictions are the same as before. The strong suggestion to use a grid is the same as before.
Variable fonts are fonts that have multiple weights, widths, slants, or other variants in one font file. They’ll often enable you to nearly infinitely adjust the width or weight of the type you’re using.
I’ve gathered a set of type for you to test out and use in this project. These are all open source or otherwise free fonts. Install them using FontBook as you would install any font.
Download variable font test set
If you forget how to use these in Illustrator, see the screenshot here.
Read more →We’re continuing to make typographic studies for the poster’s content.
After making a number of studies – some complementary, some at odds with one another – we’ll have a chaotic mass of different ideas, different typographic ideas, and different pieces.
We’ll assess and weed through this mass. We’ll cut some ideas out. We’ll cultivate others. Then we’ll wrestle order out of this chaos.
Create five or more posters from the following studies
(do at least two of the studies)
In this project, we’ll design a bunch of posters! We’ll go through a number of prompts/methods for designing a poster. In each of these, you’ll create a few studies/prototypes. Once that’s done, we’ll pick the strongest of those directions and use that to create a series of three posters.
From previous years:
If you’re still printing your book, don’t forget that there are printing instructions here. (there’s also a link in the left-hand menu)