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This guide explores essential strategies for composing visually engaging designs that communicate messages effectively. Learn to organize visual stimuli into dynamic structures, utilizing rich color palettes and contrasting typefaces. Discover techniques for customizing visual experiences through hierarchy and unconventional cropping, while relying on abstract forms to enhance imagery. Develop dynamic picture placements and introduce textures or patterns to create memorable visuals. Ideal for graphic designers seeking to refine skills and deliver powerful design outcomes.
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Poster Perfect Design
Objectives • Composing visual stimuli • Organizing it into clear & dynamic structures • Arrive at a design that delivers its message clearly, forcefully, and memorably • Describing Visual Profile
Visual Strategies • Developing rich color palettes • Reliably mixing typefaces for contrast and style • Using abstract forms to support other imagery • Customize visual experiences through hierarchy • Achieving dynamic picture placement within a column grid
Customize Visual Experience • Colorize, tone, or ghost the image to reduce the sense of realism • Crop subjects in an unconventional, dramatic way • Combine photographs or parts of several in unusual configurations • Introduce a texture, pattern, or abstract visual language into the photographic space • Silhouette objects or figures to remove them from their expected, natural environments • Present photographs in unconventional shapes, instead of rectangles
Graphic Designer’s Essential ReferenceVisual Elements, Techniques, and Layout Strategies for Graphic DesignersTimothy Samara Suggested Reading and source of the following example
Communicating the product’s concept • A two-part remedy that provides relief and energy during the day, and comfortable restful sleep at night - suggested by the product’s brand name, invented by combining the words relax and maximize • Convey ideas of rest, energy, and health • Suggest the efficacy of the product • Text Element Translations • Product Brand Name • Relaximize Day and Night • Multisymptom 24-hour cold remedy • Tagline • Nondrowsy for daytime, helps you sleep through the night