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Summary of What I Read

I read two excerpts from 'The Character and Function of the Poster' and 'The Laws of Poster Designing' where I learned many new things about the creation of posters in the graphic design world. 

In the excerpts it talked about how posters want to bring a message to our notice, to publicize products, show off entertainments, or explain campaigns. A poster should seen by many people so it can fulfill these tasks. The first one talked about how posters do not only answer questions that people have but they also suggest things to question. They cause us to think and what we've seen and read by glorifying things using design. It has many functions according to its task. It can do many things for many people and how each person can relate to it differently based on their life experiences. The task of a poster should not be limited to just communication between the producer and viewer, it can stand as aesthetically pleasing to the eyes as well. It also explains how new knowledge and experiences  repeatedly question the worthiness of the poster and its ability to fully inform people. But the poster always prevails. Posters write the history of our joys, needs, griefs, and sorrows and will always be around as something appealing to the eyes and brain. 

Lettering

The lettering on a poster should help to show information quickly and clearly and is best done with a clean and clear typeface. A person should not need to stair at a poster for a long amount of time just to understand the meaning this poster is putting across so it also needs to be readable fro a distance.

Shapes

Like I mentioned in Lettering, in Shapes it also needs to be legible from a distance so there shouldn't be a ton of shares that overlap which can make the overall poster illegible. But shapes can also help get the topic of the poster across without type. 

Color

Color is also very big in posters.

Favorite thing that I read

My favorite thing that I read was how in the first except it said that posters live in our horizontal way of thinking not our vertical. That made me think a little to fully understand it. This is important to know because people need to understand that posters represent the perfect elegance of the surface and they totally correspond with the technical world. This proves that the design world and the technical worlds aren't that different and they fully relate to one another. They support and accelerate the perfecting of the artificial world to the point of exaggeration and attention to detail on posters.