How to Make An Effective Advertising Poster

Posters are a simple and attractive form of media that can be used to promote businesses, products, services, and events. The purpose of a poster is to communicate a clear message to a target audience through pictures and choice words. An effective poster will capture a customer's eye and attention. Making sure that your poster does this requires a multiple step process. Read on to find out how this process works.  

1. Determine Your Purpose

Before you start designing your poster you need to determine what the purpose of your poster is going to be. What is the vital information that your poster must convey? For example, if you're using a poster to advertise for a restaurant, you need to include a company name, a slogan (if you have one), pictures of food, and a location. However if you're advertising a big sale you'll need to include a date, time, place, and what exactly is going on sale.

2. Hire a Professional

If you can afford it, hire a professional designer to help you come up with the perfect poster. If you can't afford it, then choose the most capable person within your own staff to take charge of the design of your poster. While the design process can take pieces of many different people's advice, ultimately it needs one person who is spearheading it and making the final decisions. Otherwise, it won't be cohesive or effective.

3. Brainstorm

Come up with a list of images and design elements based upon your company, your poster's purpose, the industry you work in, target audience, and location of posters. Select two or three of the catchiest or most unique graphic ideas and make sure your designated designer gets them.

4. Sketch

Take some time to sketch different options for your poster layout, keeping in mind where your poster is going to be placed. Are people going to be looking at it up close or does it need to be seen from far away? Make sure you take this into consideration because the whole point of a poster is to be noticed in daily life. If your layout is too cluttered or too empty it won't be as effective as it could be.

5. Choose the Final Images and Text

Once you have your layout figured out, it's time to choose the final images and text for your poster. Make sure you have all of your necessary images and other visual elements. If you're only going to use graphic elements, be sure to choose a background colour or pattern that will resonate with your audience and highlight your poster's message.

6. Review and Revise

Now that you have a completed poster, it's time to get feedback on your design and revise if necessary. Try to get feedback from people who don't have a stake in the design process so that your feedback will be as honest and objective as possible. This will help you focus the design of your poster to your target audience and ultimately make it more effective.

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