Monday, January 10, 2005

Another poster in the bag

Posters are large displays of information. The information is sometimes obvious and direct, sometimes layered in multiple meanings, and, deciphered into multiple specific personal meanings.

- hey, I've just discovered these undershelf lights in my cubicle. Look - light on the left. Light on the right. Nice.

OK, so when you're building a poster, you notice the meanings available in the provided information and then . . .

Light on the right, flick, no light on the left.

. . . organizing into a sequence with an emphasis that the author and the other communicating agents will find best represents their needs . . .

- flick - no light on the right.

. . . and so this is how it goes. The often overlooked feature of the process is the creation of a whole new set of meanings that are based upon the presentation media and its inherent values. What values?

- flick - light on the right.

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