Poster & Graphic Design

The Poster & Graphic Design course will offer the folks who attend an opportunity to learn & share different poster design techniques from Woodcuts, Cut & Paste to Photoshop. In each class we will look at other artists & collectives that use these techniques to convey ideas through posters. Through-out the course participants will try out & play with each method, & eventually try adding different mediums together.

After the beginning skill share classes, folks will be asked to produce a poster for each class, & during each class all the posters will be discussed over their effectiveness of convey an idea or information.

This course will last 10 weeks, with an option at the end of creating a non-partisan, anti-authoritarian poster design collective.

All lessons are optional & your own skills are valued. If you have a skill to share in this class, then the space can be made for you to facilitate the lesson.

This Course will be held Thursdays at University Center room 236 The Peak Office @ 5-6PM

This Week!

Week 1

Radical Poster Collectives, History of art & politics:

• Poster design collectives & their art
• Graffiti & helping everyone's voice to be heard
• Graffiti & Katrina, generally expressing dissent
• previous resistance through art & propaganda

Week 2

Cut & Paste/ Pen & Ink:

• how to on cut & paste
• looking at zines, collages & punk art
• pen & ink basics
• bee hive collective, & old anarchist artists

Week 3

Woodcuts & Stencils:

• how to on woodcuts
• look at folk art, eric drooker & celebrating peoples history
• how to on stencils
• banksy, anarchist propaganda & street art

Week 4

Photoshop, Illustrator & InDesign?

• How to?s on Ps, Ai & Id

Week 5

Silkscreening:

• how to on silkscreening
• Burnt Oak, CD covers & political prints

Week 6

Text, Fonts & Adding Words:

• InDesign? & clip art
• Hand draw
• Size, placement & fitting in
• Sans verses serifs

Week 7

Mixed Media, Putting it all together & Getting it out There:

• adding together different styles to make a finished poster
• making a poster this class
• photographs & scanners
• printing & coping
• how to put posters up & where to put them
• Going big, Going Small

Week 8,9 & 10

Applied Poster Design:

• making posters
• critiquing & discussing posters

-- AnarchistUGuelph - 22 Sep 2007