MihiMIHI Poster

Create a Digital MIHIMIHI

A mihimihi is a way of introducing yourself in Maori. We will be adapting this to create a poster that describes you including elements you would find in a mihimihi.

Your challenge is to design and create a digital mihimihi that creates interest and is enaging. Your poster can include images and/or text and should be personalised, telling your story in your own way. Your poster should include the elements from your written mihimihi but you can also add anything else you feel is important to you like animals, experiences, hobbies, passions, key moments etc.

Have a look at the images on this page for inspiration!!

Write Your Mihimihi

Complete your written mihimihi on the provided google doc (click image to access or go direct via schoology)

Research

You now need to do some research into possible designs for your poster. A very good resource for these is looking at movie posters as they are stylized and convey lots of information mainly in pictures.

Good sources of inspiration are:

Movie Posters
Book Covers
CD Covers
Game Posters

Design Your Digital Mihimihi

Grab an A4 piece of paper & pencil

You can do one sketch or split the paper into half and come up with 2 designs.

You are to sketch your digital mihimihi design and include some notes to help describe what it will be like.

Remember you are trying to include some of your history/culture and maybe some of you now.

Be creative and don't worry about how you will make this.

This is about getting your ideas out and not about how well you can draw.

You need to think about some design elements & principles:

where your elements are placed
use of image and/or text
fonts
sizes - hierarchy
colours

Set Up Your Artboard

HOW TO SET UP YOUR FILE

A4 size is 210mm x 297mm

In Gimp

Open Gimp
File -> New (or CTRL+N)
Under Template select A4
Select orientation (portrait or landscape)
Under advanced and fill with the default is background colour which is white. You can select a transparent background if you want.
Then click OK
Once you can see your A4 canvas you need to make sure you save
Save - CTRL+S. Make sure you are in your H drive and you rename the file appropriately

In Photoshop

Open Photoshop
File -> New (or CTRL+N)
Select PRINT and you should see an A4 option
You can name your file now where it says untitled
Select orientation (portrait or landscape
Should be CMYK
By default the background colour is white. You can select a transparent background if you want.
Then click OK
Once you can see your A4 canvas you need to make sure you save
Save - CTRL+S. Make sure you are in your H drive and you rename the file appropriatelyy

Get Going!

Now is the time that you start making your poster. Use the tools you have at your disposal to put together your poster. There are lots of online tutorials available in the GIMP section of the website otherwise your teacher should be able to show you how to get started.