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How to Design a Poster No One Can Look Away From: Tips and Guides

Earlier posters were a piece of printed paper aimed to attract attention to the surface. However we live in the information technology era and the main field of activity is internet. A the evolution of posters is obvious: they are created exactly for the web.

More often they are used as the elements of web design. Also, being a great tool for advertising, posters can be creatively used for web marketing. With a well-designed poster you can successfully advertise a product (for example, a movie) or event (for example, a gig). But remember the look of posters can be made in many ways, because there a lot of styles: for now the most popular are vintage and minimalist styles.

The current post is aimed to help you to design a remarkable post, which matches the time. So, welcome 10 poster design tips & guides.

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9 Graphic Designers Tips for Fabulous Posters

The article gives a general information about the poster-making, mostly concentrating on the graphic side of creation.

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7 Tips to Design a Good Effective Poster

This is also a general post on the posting, however the tips here are more general, than the ones in the previous article.

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How to Design a Poster: Graphic Design

This video guide will tell you about the elements designing poster in quite affordable and original manner.

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10 Tips On Creating Killer Gigposters

This cool article will teach you how to design great artistic posters for gigs, rock concerts and rock bands. Wonderful examples are included.

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The Elements of Retro Web Design

It’s a very long article, but don’t be afraid, all the info is useful. The post includes tips and guides and mini-tuts for designing different elements of a poster. Everything concerns vintage style.

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How to Design Posters

This step-by step guide will show the basis of designing posters. Every step is supported by the schematic pic.

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Rules for Poster Design

This short article contains useful rules for creating a poster from a printing company.

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7 Elements of a Great Movie Poster Design

This article will tell you a lot about the proper way of creating movie posters.

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How to Design a Movie Poster – Top Ten Tips to Grab the Eye of a Sales Agent, Distributor or Audience Member

This article is more marketing-oriented, than the previous one. It will teach you to make your movie posters more demanding.

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Poster Design Tips for PagePlus

This article will provide you with very detailed tips for designing poster in PagePlus, a special desktop publishing utility by Serif.

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The articles carries info about different types of posters, so choose the one you need – and start designing. Good luck!

Do you like the digest? Maybe you want more tips about the particular style in the nest post? Please let me know in the comments.

About the author:

Art Rivera: Deeply interested in everything connected with Internet, I sincerely suppose the web is the only future reality for the humanity through its inevitable involving into every part of human life. I’m not a great fan of cyberpunk concept, but the world is keeping that certain direction of total connectedness. And of course there should be someone, who can write the history, who would describe and analyze and enter in the record all notable changes and tendencies on the web. Hello, it’s me.