Poster idea...

[greybeardabbot]

What do you think? any suggestions?

[keyna]

I think it's good! ;D

"Hots an exhibition" is left justified or is that the way it saved?

R these 8.5 x 11? Since this is a limited color piece you could probably get Kinkos to print a few in real poster size for a good price. If there are a couple of places to hang a larger poster.

You might wanna make the bottom two lines even smaller since they aren't as important and punch up the picture a bit.


The font is nice and readable from most distances

The variation in font size and thickness is also great, very attention grabing.

Has someone had a course in typography?

[greybeardabbot]

Typography? No... Art, Art History, lots of theatre, and a good eye for graphics.
Yes, it's 9x11... it saved funny, perhaps when I resized it. Ironicly I shrank the picture to punch up the font size on the bottom... you didn't seem to think it was necessary huh?

What about the content... does it communicate quickly and effectively? Or would you already have to be familiar with Dag to get it?

It seems to me that a general rule of graphic design was not to mix more than three fonts or it starts to look amaturish... does that rule still hold?

[ATTICVS ROMANVS]

time/place details - check
picture of people fighting - check
lots of fun fonts - check
promise of free pizza - nope
big dagorhir logo - check

I'd probably include the Dag URL somewhere, otherwise it looks good! I'd definitely be interested.

[keyna]

Typography is the study of fonts.......it's the one class they make you take every semester. Designers are actually torn over the importance of type and image. Yes, being creative with type can be artistic, but type is generally there for information. I think it just matters on what you are creating. In this case you ant your picture to speak a thousand words.

resources: desktoppub.about.com/od/typography/

examples: (click on the names in this link...more creative ones start midway through part one.

desktoppub.about.com/gi/dynamic/offsite.htm?zi=1/XJ&sdn=desktoppub&zu=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.designingwithtype.com%2Fcooperunion.html



Yeah the rule of three fonts generally holds true.....although the big art thing now a days is to rebel against that.

You have everything important on there....there isn't a website, but......yes they can check you out ahead of time with it.......I think it keeps the mystery if you don't.

Sometimes with this seeing live action is better than reading about it.

With that, I would just take off the line about foam fighting.....let them come and see.

If you put foam fighting that might be enough of a turn off not to come. Let them see for themselves how cool foam swords are.

Leave the "intrested" part as is at this point and move everything down and punch the art.

What are you using to create your posters? I know with adboe software when saving for web you have to put a clear box around the areas you want seen....it tends to crop it messing up lining and cutting off words.


If you like I have several copies of photoshop elements that have never been used. Elements combines photoshop and illustrator tools...Z could bring with him at the end of the month.

[greybeardabbot]

Is THAT why I get the rightside of a text box cropping off the last letters in the line? because the text box is not "transparent"? How would have guessed? I'm glad to that tid bit... Bless you!

OK... advice taken.... Also I think I'll run them up to kinko's and get collor copies rather than use a Black White Photo copier on colored paper... I was going to modify the whole document for Blk/Wht reproduction... but not now. I think the color will serve us better.

THANKS [wave]

[keyna]

[Zaron]

(Keyna, not Z)

I don't know, what color of paper?

It might look ok in black and white.

Color copies at Kinkos shouldn't be much for this flyer either.

Sorry it was fun to talk to someone about design.....haven't worke din a few months so I got a little excited

[greybeardabbot]

this is a picture, front and back our our new fliers that we would like to hand out at the event and other places...

[keyna]

For printing purposes only......

I'm assumming the left edge got cut off again?

While I like te vertical lines and green squares...you may consider taking them out for printing/folding purposes.


Even if you do have them measured out to a t, different printing setting can throw them off.

It may cause problems with the post office...for they have certain guidelines.

Just some helpful hints.



Other than that I think it looks very nice. I better watch out because you might take my job away


Do you make alot of stuff like this for the church?

[greybeardabbot]

No. my bride is the tallented one, she does that kind of stuff for a living... newsletter and such... she is the one that does it for the church... all I did was use a Microsoft Publishing Wizard. Opted for the green color sceme because Aethenus colors are green/black/white (silver) I noticed that Chris (my wife) has also used this same wizard on other brochures so it should meet the post office requirements because so far it has... but then "I" did this one and who knows. And yes when I tunred it into a piture document I had to shrink it and resize it for 'Imageshack' so it does look a little off.
AND we don't have many really cool and "Bright" pictures of ourselves so you will notice that while Frost is in the fist pic... his face is pleasantly hidden... the archer is taken from some other realms website, but it fit the bill for brightness and clarity and showing who we are... and Nictmar got his big mug into our brochure for the same reason.
We need to post more picts!

[Sir Semi]

Word of advice....

it is common practice to ask permission before using someone else's images, so you may want to go back to the realm that you got it from and make sure it's OK to use.

[Sir Nichtmar]

Nice work!