{"id":1481,"date":"2016-01-28T18:44:28","date_gmt":"2016-01-29T01:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/?p=1481"},"modified":"2018-01-28T11:51:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-28T18:51:41","slug":"happy-designing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/2016\/01\/28\/happy-designing\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy designing…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is a little help for those of us trying to make a poster.<\/p>\n

Usually we spend a lot of time on contents, and try to squish in too much information, but let’s give some thought to the following design elements (which I got from today’s workshop by Jamie Myers, who designs Branchlines): consistency; repetition; alignment; balance; symmetry and the rule of thirds; white space to rest the eye; reduced line length; image resolution; and lastly, colour palette.<\/p>\n

Regarding Colour Palette, check out www.color.adobe.com, where you can choose a colour palette based on an image of your own . I include two samples below… This will certainly make choosing colours easier for me. Happy designing!<\/p>\n

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Here is a little help for those of us trying to make a poster. Usually we spend a lot of time on contents, and try to squish in too much information, but let’s give some thought to the following design elements (which I got from today’s workshop by Jamie Myers, who designs Branchlines): consistency; repetition; […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16793,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369483],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1481","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-techniques"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16793"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1481"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1494,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1481\/revisions\/1494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aitkenlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}