Rebirth+of+posters


 * R E S E A R C H**

Examples **of Grids :** Kuler, TheFWA, NetDiver

A poster is an informative, often decorative way to attract attention to the information it contains. A poster is a bill or placard usually displayed in a public place. It is often decorated with designs or illustrations.
 * To advertise events or products
 * To display information or instructions
 * To teach some kinds of information


 * 1) Birth: Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and convey information.
 * 2) Death: Even though out dated posters are good archival artifacts of the event and graphic style, they are not living.
 * 3) **__Rebirth: Outdated posters can be reproduced. It can produce art out of those outdated posters.__**


 * A R C H I T E C T U R E**

5  areas of investigation:  
 *    World of posters = BIRTH 
 * Outdated posters = DEATH
 * Exchange of design = REBIRTH
 *       News/Event/Interview/Articles = LIFE
 *       Members profile (search members, view their work and add friends) = PEOPLE

**Personas**  1. Graphic Designers  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 2. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Fine Art Students / Client <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 3. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Public (the non-designer) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> 1. Primary persona: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Graphic Designers //(People who enjoy designing posters)// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">2. Secondary: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Student <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> //(People who// //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">major fine art-educational tool <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">) //<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Client //(People who needs graphic designer to redesign their posters- find a designer)// 3. Affected: Strangers //(People who do not// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">//know about design but might// //want to get to know more about design)//

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">//__Persona 1:__// //__**Kate Wood** __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Kate is a 32-year-old graphic designer. She has a BA in design and has had her own business in graphic design and web design for the past 10 years. Kate is fairly conversant in Photoshop and Illustrator. She taught herself Photoshop and Illustrator and isn't afraid of looking at books or web sites to discover new ways of designing with Photoshop and Illustrator. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">Kate is especially interested in poster design. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Kate wishes she could find a <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">web <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> site that is focused to <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">poster <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> design. Right now, she can only search keywords and often the search results are way off target for her needs. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">Kate wants a place that she can show off her design to attract potential clients. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">This is her primary documentation "goal." She doesn't need information on how to create a <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">poster <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">S <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">he <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">also <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">wants <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast"> to comment, view and rate various posters. At the end, poster uniting users as they work and communicate together creates an informative database of successful posters. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: '맑은 고딕'; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-fareast">Kate found some of her clients from Poster Holic. Clients that seen her work posted on Poster Holic and offered her a job to redesign existing website that they have. Poster Holic helps her find clients quickly and easily. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000001; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Goals: To be recognized as a force to be reckoned with in the world of design <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> //__<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Persona 2 <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold">: <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000001; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> **Lisa Rowling** __//<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #3b3a26; FONT-FAMILY: 'Verdana','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> Lisa Rowling is a professional designer with a deep understanding of design process and theory and a 35-year history in the fields of graphic design, custom furniture design, and information design. Lisa has been a design practitioner for over 35 years and a design educator for over 30 years. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">As Professor of Graphic Design at York University she has taught Graphic Design, Typography and Thesis and also seminars in Visual Studies and Visual Criticism. She is excited to be involved with Poster Holic, where she can monitor and influence designers. She encourages her students to become a member of Poster Holic. She thinks that it can be used as an educational tool to emphasize the effects of posters on society as a whole. She wants her students to find inspiration for design by creating and sharing their own design with other designers. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000001; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Goals: To have the information necessary to know all steps necessary to incorporate <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> //__Persona 3:<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold"> __////__ **Jay Stock** __// <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">Jay Stock is Senior Designer at <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">lolo <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">, and as his involvement with the web and passion for design tends to blur the boundaries between work and play, he's extremely grateful that he gets paid to do stuff that he'd do for his own enjoyment. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">His work is frequently featured in online and offline publications, showcased on various 'inspiration' websites, and used as an example of how accessible web design can still look beautiful. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">He has been chosen for ‘Poster design of the week’ several times. He loves to inspire people with his own work. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">He is always inspired by people who have posted their design on the website. But what is even more inspiring than that -- to him -- is how they got to where they are and what their particular perspective is in life. The strong community building of information is what makes the site so appealing to him; sharing personal opinions, share their interest, events and group activities. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000001; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Goals: To know that he is getting the best possible information, that is targeted to his specifically
 * Scenarios**

<span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 1. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Find their inspiration for design by searching, create and sharing your own design <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 2. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Check out a world of posters, compare posters, submit news and comments and read poster related articles and interviews. It can be used as an educational tool for fine arts students and an informational tool for companies searching for a designer. ( Fine Art students / Client ) <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial"> 3. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Can collect posters that they like and print it for personal use. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">a specific place in the website that allows users to post up their own <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">design <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> and leave <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">comments. <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">allows other users to respond to the <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">designs <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'"> and messages posted up by the others <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">allows users to make friends with each other <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: Symbol; mso-fareast-font-family: Symbol; mso-bidi-font-family: Symbol"> ·  <span style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; LINE-HEIGHT: 150%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'">joins people together
 * Users interactions**
 * Users main interactions**


 * Sitemap**
 * ||  || Home Page ||   ||   ||
 * Birth || Death || Rebirth ||  || People ||
 * search (New) || search (old) || Design || view || search (profile) ||
 * ||  || upload design || search ||   ||
 * ||  || my space (profile) ||   ||   ||


 * I M P L E M E N T A T I O N**


 * Thumbnails / Rough Sketches**
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 * Visual Mocks**
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 * F I N A L**


 * References**

Foster, John, __New masters of poster design: poster design for the next century__ Gloucester, Mass: Rockport Publishers, 2006.

"Poster" //Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia//. 9 Jan 2008, 20:27 UTC. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. 10 Jan 2008 <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poster>

"The History of the Poster" 2007, Art Source International Inc. Jan 21, 2008 <http://www.rare-maps.com/poster_history.cfm>