PROJECT 04.01.00
Considering Neo-Posterness
Posters have presented singular, static information well over the years, but with the rise of the internet and mobile technology came the marginalization of the poster. As a graphic designer, I believe in posters. I believe to maintain them in a world of info-mediacy designers must address and consider new conventions, possibly derived from an investigation of how information is presented in current digital trends like Twitter and Facebook. In these web-based applications waterfalls of digital information stream down the page at exponential rates. I believe event posters have the ability to do something similar. With the proper team and materials an event poster can transform in a new way leading up to and during an event. Traditionally, the date on event poster is critical to its transformation towards (1) an artifact of record or (2) pure ephemera. The following explorations begin to illustrate how a poster could present more information overtime. The first 4 slides present the poster with expected conventions, but the form the poster has taken, multiple sheets, alludes to a transformative process. As this event takes shape (and in the remainder of slides) specific information (speakers, schedule and participants) have been added to the poster in slightly modified (from the original), but cohesive, visual ways. In other words, each time new bodies of information are added, their design will shift slightly from the most recent addition.
Currently, I am illustrating information that actually exists; suggesting the poster will build, significantly, over the duration (3 days) of the event. Participants will be added and, as they register will be physically placed by their respective presentations, workshops, etc. Comments, illustrations, photos, questions, opinions, etc., will all be added to the poster throughout the event, creating an organic information artifact which, eventually, will become a complete (place, people, ideas, etc.) representation of the event.
