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Where graphic design is concerned, poster design could well be the most sought after project. A poster is a simple media which communicates vital information about a product or an event. For a designer, it could be an inspiration simply to look at a blank page and to imagine what he could do with it. At times, it can also be a source of frustration if you are not sure on how you can start on it!

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1. Getting Attention
You need to first decide upon good photographs or another graphic element to work around. Some designers choose to use very graphic imagery, sometimes even disturbing imagery to get their posters noticed. Others could go with a lot of blank space to have a different kind of impact, as long as it works! You could also use a provocative question in bold fonts, to make people stop and look at the poster. This initial step is vital for the poster, because this element is what you will build all others with.
2. Keep it Simple
You need to put ideas across using color and graphic elements, and too much text on a poster is never a good idea. You could provide a url for the audience to look up finer details! Nobody wants to stop and look at a poster that they will have to spend time reading line by line!
3. Use GREAT Fonts, Period!
It is a great idea to even create your own fonts for poster design. At the same time, do not use a font which appears so fantastic that it becomes a paint to decipher! The sans-serif font for instance is a great font for a head line. Do NOT use too many different fonts on a poster - this can have a cluttered final impact.
4. Think Information Consumption
Start the poster with the most vital piece of information, and follow up with statistics of lower priority, which is nothing but plain and simple logic. Place the information in such a manner that the eyes of a viewer follow one piece of information to the other, leading to the lower regions of the poster.
5. Use Colors with Care
You choice of color scheme is vital. Learn color theory if you do not already know it well. Why not use a color pallette to design the poster if you are unsure? Use imagery to compliment the color tones.
6. Think Symmetry
Its all about balance where poster design is concerned. Do not make one end of the poster too 'heavy' with information. Dive the entire design into two halves and evaluate the importance of each!
7. Break the Rules!
At times it makes a good poster if you break the rules we have mentioned! What is important is to KNOW the rules so you can break them even better!

We do hope this article has pointed you in the right direction where poster design is concerned. Good luck!

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Where graphic design is concerned, poster design could well be the most sought after project. A poster is a simple media which communicates vital information about a product or an event. For a designer, it could be an inspiration simply to look at a blank page and to imagine what he could do with it.

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Community Road Safety Grants now open

Apply now for Round 6 of our grants that allow community groups and charity/not-for-profit organisations across NSW the opportunity to deliver local safety projects. Read more

Safer Roads Program

Use our interactive map to find Safer Roads Program projects in your area that will help reduce road trauma. The map includes projects across NSW that are planned, in progress and completed. Read more

Mobile phone detection cameras

Mobile phone detection cameras, including fixed and transportable cameras, target drivers and riders illegally using a mobile phone across NSW anywhere, anytime. Read more

Swift penalties for drink and drug driving

Drivers caught drink and drug driving by NSW Police may have their licence suspended immediately. Read more

Mobile phone demerit point increase

In NSW, drivers who use a mobile phone illegally will be penalised five demerit points. During double demerit periods, drivers who break the rules will be penalised 10 demerit points. Read more

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Escaping Dog? - Muswellbrook Shire Council

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The never-ending attempts to keep your much loved pet confined may seem frustrating at times, but every escape opens up the possibility of tragic consequences. If your dog is running loose, it could be injured in a fight with another dog, or in danger of being hit by a car.

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Ready, Set, Build
Public skateparks don't come gift-wrapped.
By Miki Vuckovich

With over 11-million skateboarders in the U.S. alone, and only about 2,000 skateparks, we have a long way to go before our need for top-quality terrain is met. Particularly when you consider how many of the existing skateparks are, well, unskateable. It's up to skaters to be sure that the hundreds of cities currently racing to build their first parks build them well, and it's also up to skaters to start the skatepark process in the thousands of towns that have yet to even consider it.

And that's where you come in--it's your town, it's your scene, and it'll be your skatepark, but not if it never gets built. Here are some of the steps you'll be taking on your way to achieving a wicked public TF.

Organize - It won't be your park, it'll be everyone's. So get them all involved in the project. Start with your friends and parents. You'll need skaters (who will actually use the park) and adults (who both vote and pay taxes) on your skatepark committee for it to be effective. Obviously, skaters know what they need (and they certainly know what they don't want). And adults who have been involved with other public projects or who understand how the local government works are very valuable. It's important to show that the whole community is behind the project, and not just the skaters. Plus, adults can handle some of the more boring--but important--organizational chores.

Promote - You may have a talented and persuasive group of volunteers on your skatepark committee, but unless you have broad public support, you'll have trouble convincing local officials that they should spend public money on a skatepark (they'd rather build another softball complex). Send skaters door-to-door to collect signatures and hand out information sheets about your project, including where and when you'll be meeting. Have adult members of the group approach their friends and colleagues, as well. Skaters can solicit the help of business owners that kick them out of spots--yes, if they don't want you skating the rail in front of their store, it behooves them to support the creation of a local public skatepark.

Fundraise - Once you've articulated the need for a public skatepark to your local leaders and can show broad public support for the project, your group will likely be asked to find funding for the skatepark. While the city has likely spent millions of dollars on facilities for other sports, they'll probably ask for at least some of the funds for the skatepark to be raised privately. In other words, it'll be up to you to go out and find it.

Again, rely on your group for good ideas and potential sources of contributions. Local businesses, business associations, wealthy individuals, and other nonprofit groups or foundations are likely sources. And don't forget that donations from individuals, even in small amounts, can add up. Businesses that can provide materials or services (concrete, lumber, excavation, etc.) are potential sources of valuable in-kind donations. Create a fundraising program that includes the whole community and allows anyone to contribute any amount. It all adds up.

Come up with some creative and fun public events that will attract people and your local media. The more you can get the word out about your skatepark project, the more chances you have of reaching potential donors. Fundraising takes a long time, and it's likely that you'll be going away to college before you've achieved your goal. But with all the time you'll spend raising money for your skatepark, at least you won't be getting tickets for skating.

Design - This is the fun part, and it's likely that the first thing you did when deciding to launch a skatepark project was to draw your fantasy park. Well, the skatepark probably won't look anything like that, because most public skatepark designs result from the inputt of several skaters filtered through the ideas and experience of a professional skatepark designer; the best skateparks are the result of top skatepark designers taking local input and balancing it with everything they know about lines, flow, speed, and the million other things that affect skatepark design. The importance of hiring an experienced skatepark designer cannot be overemphasized. In other words, a guy who sells playground equipment in addition to skate ramps is not a qualified skatepark designer.

Build - Along with Design, this is the other most critical step. You can have the best design on paper, but if you hand it over to a guy who's made his living pouring sidewalks, get ready for kinks, bumps, and gaps (not the kind you can ollie). Just as every qualified designer should be able to rattle off a list of great parks they're responsible for, so should a qualified skatepark builder. And it's up to you to recognize or check those references.

The Internet is full of skatepark reviews (try skateboarding.com or concretedisciples.com, among others). Often, top designers are associated with top builders, but the civic process usually requires a public bidding process on construction jobs like a skatepark. Just be sure the people responsible for writing the bid specifications are very detail-oriented so that all potential builders are clear about what is expected of them. The importance of hiring an experienced skatepark builder cannot be overemphasized. The skatepark you asked for, funded, and designed is the skatepark you deserve.

Those are some of the basic steps in achieving a top-quality public skatepark. Hopefully, you won't be going too far away to college, or will at least be able to come home for a shred over the Holidays. In any case, you can be proud of the legacy you've left for future generations of skaters. They'll chant your name as they switch back tail that buttery ledge you helped design.

But it won't happen if you don't get started. Get your friends together, and get something going. For more information, get online and check out these and other resources:

Tony Hawk Foundation: www.tonyhawkfoundation.org

Skaters For Public Skateparks: www.skatersforpublicskateparks.org

Skatepark Association of the USA: www.spausa.org

Skatepark.org: www.skatepark.org
Miki Vuckovich is Executive Director of the Tony Hawk Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to empowering youth through the creation of quality public skateparks in low-income areas. www.tonyhawkfoundation.org

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How To Get Your City To Build A Skatepark | TransWorld SKATEboarding

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Ready, Set, BuildPublic skateparks don't come gift-wrapped.By Miki Vuckovich With over 11-million skateboarders in the U.S. alone, and only about 2,000 skateparks, we have a long way to go before our need for top-quality terrain is met. Particularly when you consider how many of the existing skateparks are, well, unskateable.

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Clean Up Australia Day inspires thousands of Australians to take to their local park, beach, bushland and streets to clean up their local environment.

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Possible issues you could tackle for Task 2

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Lack of entertainment for kids

Road safety

Dogs getting out

Littering

Lack of shops / services (e.g. yoghurt land, outdoor pool. indoor skate park)

Vandalism
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Any other issue you can think of as negotiated with your teachers on the day.

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Canva - an online tool for making posters

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Canva - an online tool for making posters

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Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more.

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Choose an issue in Kurri Kurri (or the surrounding area). How would you work together as a team of superheroes to fix the issue?
You will need to create a poster to explain how you would overcome this issue.  You may make the poster using digital tools (for example, Canva - see link under Poster Production Resources) or using coloured textas, pencils and A3 paper.  The product will be due at the end of the day and can be submitted digitally, if required, to lisa.scobie@det.nsw.edu.au.

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If you were a superhero or a supervillian, what would you look like, what powers would you have?

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Driving Question: How could we work together as superheroes to solve a problem in Kurri Kurri?

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Driving Question: How could we work together as superheroes to solve a problem in Kurri Kurri?