Cool Poster Ideas
- Whether you’re designing new bedroom decor, furnishing office walls or have been tasked with an art project for school, consider creating a poster. Posters give you plenty of room to express yourself with cool art designs–plus they’re a way to show off your work on a large scale.
- Put someone on point for bad behavior or let your crush know just how you feel by designing your own Wild West-style wanted poster. You’ve got a couple of options on how to make the poster–which usually features a photo of the “wanted” outlaw and text declaring the person’s missteps–and don't forget a reward.
You can use a variety of software programs to make posters from scratch, including Microsoft Publisher (a desktop publishing program available as part of the Microsoft Office Suite), Adobe Photoshop (available as part of the Adobe Creative Suite) and Windows Paint, installed with Windows. With each of these programs you’ll design a poster, choose a size, background and colors, drop in the photo and add the text. For a faster poster you’ll find many "wanted" poster generator websites. - While graffiti is often associated with gritty city streets and gang markings, the spray paint style of design is considered artwork by many people. While a poster may not give you as much room as a brick wall, you can express yourself by creating a “tag” which is the graffiti term for a design, name, letters or word that represents who you are. You’ll find a rainbow of spray paint options in hardware stores–choose at least two colors–one black–to get started. Work outside to let the fumes disperse. To create the "graffiti look" on the poster start by outlining your design with thick black paint. Once it dries add color to fill in the design.
- What was once a way for people in the Victorian Age to amuse themselves can become a great attention-getting poster idea. Victorians enjoyed the artistic style of photomontage, which is the process of cutting photos and placing subjects in unlikely scenarios such as pasting a grown man’s head on a baby’s body, gluing a young boy’s head to a horse or cutting out a group picture and placing them in an underwater scene. Almost any poster topic lends itself to photomontage. If you’re working on an assignment about geography, for example, cut and glue an image of a globe on top of a person’s head or pictures of people huddled in Alaskan-style clothing and place them in the middle of a Tahitian beach.