WEDC Guide No. 21: How to design a poster

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posted on 2024-12-09, 14:56 authored by Rod Shaw, Brian Reed

A poster is a piece of paper or board mounted on a wall or other vertical surface designed to either attract the attention of groups of people to specific information, or to persuade people to think or act in a particular way. They usually include text, images and/or other graphic elements, but they can be either entirely graphical or entirely based on text. As posters are primarily a visual medium they are useful to communicate with people who are illiterate or who do not speak the native language. They are also quick way to communicate headline messages.

Authors: Rod Shaw and Brian Reed

Quality assurance: Glenda McMahon and Kay Davey

Illustrated by Rod Shaw

Designed and produced by WEDC Publications

History

School

Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Research Unit

Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)

Published in

WEDC Guide

Publisher

Version

VoR (Version of Record)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2016

Notes

This guide was published by the Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC) at Loughborough University.

ISBN

9781911252061

Other identifier

WEDC_ID:22603

Language

en