Students will be able to:
Use layer styles and layer modes
Create designs with brushes and adjustment layers
Mask and crop effectively
Pay attention to design
Weight, emphasis, movement, value
Visual Hierarchy (Where does your eye travel on the poster? Hopefully from most important to least important!)
CRAP (Contrast Repetition Alignment Proximitry)
Colour theory (What does that colour make you feel?)
1 1/2 hours
Create a music festival or musician poster
Tabloid size (11 x 17 inches)
Use Photoshop, or Photoshop and Illustrator togetherÂ
See examples below for reference
If you want to do something different, run it by the teacher first
Should include music festival title, date, location & artist(s).
Complete the assignment (No tutorial!)
Use what you've learned from previous units
Should be more than copy/pasting images from Google onto an artboard... be creative!
If you use pre-existing images (ie. photo of a musician) alter it in some way (adjustments, filters, blend modes etc.)
Export to .jpeg (File > Export > Save for Web...)
Upload it to your portfolio with the What I've Learned questions
Submit through Google Classroom
10 / 10 = Poster completed to a excellent level; great attention to detail, highly considers Elements/Principles of Design, visual hierarchy (layout) is highly considered, overall impression is visually striking. Effects, filters, and/or adjustments have been used. All What I've Learned questions are complete.
8-9 / 10 = Poster completed to a very good level; good attention to detail, considers Elements/Principles of Design, visual hierarchy (layout) is thought out. Some minor room for improvement but overall is very well done. All What I've Learned questions are complete.
5-7 / 10 = Poster completed to a developing to good level; some attention to detail, considers Elements/Principles of Design, visual hierarchy (layout) might be a bit unbalanced in places. What I've Learned questions are incomplete.
0-4 / 10 = Project is less than half complete or little work has been put into it. WIL questions are missing.
Where do the readers eyes go to first, second etc. (hierarchy)?
What do you like about your work?
What would you change if you were to do it again?
Kaley Bonde, 2025