1. Poster Workshops Timeline:
Digital Poster / Draft Tips: Sept. 25
Printmaking (with Demo & techniques): Sept. 30
Printmaking (poster creation final): Oct. 2

2. Straw Hat Press / Goat Farm Arts
Straw Hat Press is run by its three owners & Master Printers: Laura Cleary, Shaun McCallum, and Ashley Schick

3. Labor /Protest Posters Examples

4. Labor /Protest Posters Examples

5. Labor /Protest Posters Examples
Agitate, Educate, Organize
Timothy W. Drescher

9. Tips for designing posters
Bold, graphic, high-contrast imagery
Bold, simple text
. It will be complicated to carve out lots of small text in your prints, so having simpler text or limited text is best

10. A powerful thing for relief printing is having a dark and light area meet.

11. How do we accomplish this look in Adobe Illustrator?
Installing Custom Fonts
Using “Live Trace”

12. You are not limited to the fonts installed with Illustrator
You can install custom fonts through “Fontbook” on the computers In the Multimedia Lab.-

13. Where do I get access to Illustrator?
Multimedia Lab- open anytime the library is open.- Help desk available.
Don’t forget you can always get free 30 day trials of Adobe software online.-
30 day trials are often enough time to get a project done!