This Poster Design Project was a collaborative effort between the Graphic Design and Photography students from the Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts. The project’s goals to create clear communicative poster designs stems from the idea that designers develop and integration of images and words to represent the ideas and objectives of their clients or employers. Yet, the creators of graphics and photography are not aware of the processes each of the other goes through to develop their work. This is true in many educational circles, where students of each major may rarely cross paths with their work. Yet, these two professions are consistently represented in today’s marketplace side by side. This projects offered the students an opportunity to help bridge that gap.
Images and typography can be powerful and stimulating tools and avenues of communication. Design solutions can not only achieve their informational goals, but transcend those objectives and convey moods and emotions that create a more lasting impression to it’s targeted audience. In the Graphic Design Department at Boston University Center for Digital Imaging Arts design students create a series of posters based on a subject matter of their choice. The design students will then work with the Photography Department (Director, Randall Armor) students in their Studio Lighting class on the final designs of their posters. The above samples contain all design and photographic elements created on-site at the Center for Digital Imaging Arts.