Activity: Making Typography Posters

1. Identify an advocacy or issue that you would like to campaign

about through a typography poster design. The campaign poster will
have a statement consisting of 10-20 words.

a. Poster statement example: “Let our children learn and play. Keep
them in schools. Stop child labor.”

2. Please be mindful of the principles of design. Bearing in mind the

principle of contrast, make some text elements large or bold while
other text elements are thin or small to create visual interest. You
may also use basic shapes, lines, and some symbols in this design
activity.

3. Here is the MIL Design Framework to give focus and guidance in

the planning phase.

Questions for Poster Planning

Target Audience Who are the possible readers of this poster?
Sender/Author Who is the author of this poster?
What is the tone of the text in the poster? What
are the sample phrases or taglines that you will?
Key content
What are the facts/figures that you will include in
the poster?
Purpose What is the intention of the poster?
What are the font types, colors and shapes that
you will use in the poster? What are the words or
Form/Style
phrases that you need to emphasize in the poster?
How will you organize your text elements?
What are the blank of the brochure? - paper type,
Medium /
texture, glossy, matte, folding (threefold, two-
Format
fold), full color, black and white , totally online