Poster Project--work on questions during dream sequence down-time

1. Go to: http://www.designhistory.org/posters.html
2. And, answer the following questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS AND IN COMPLETE SENTENCES. To open the questions in a word document, go to Besonen/get handout/Poster Design Questions 
1. What was the original purpose of broadsides?
2. How was such a wide range of color achieved in the Paris poster designs of the late 1800s?
3. Who is credited with the "unhealthy first step towards media promoting impossible body types for women"?
4. What is the difference between the poster styles of Henry Van de Velde and the Beggarstaff Brothers?
5. How did communist Russia use poster design?
6. Why did the U.S. government hire Lester Beall to design posters?
7. What were the characteristics of the Swiss International Style?
8. How would you describe psychedelic style of poster design?
9. Explain how poster design was used to inspire people to help causes in WWI and II.
10. Why was there a controversy about the Obama "Hope" poster? Did the photographer sue? Why?
3. More examples of poster design 
1. http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/selected-posters-2008#18
2. http://www.internationalposter.com/default.aspx
3. http://www.posterpage.ch/exhib/ex269ist/ex269ist.htm
4. http://www.posterpage.ch/index.html
4. Choose a style of poster design that you appreciate:
1. Art Nouveau, Ukiyo-e, Parisian Posters of the 1890s-1930s, Beggarstaff Brothers, Swiss International, Object Poster, Psychedelic, Political Propaganda, etc.
5. Choose an important topic to communicate:
1. AIDS/other public health issues awareness, Environmental Issues (water is life, recycling, global warming), Get Out The Vote, Anti-Bullying in the Schools
6. Inform yourself on this topic. Research online, in the library, etc.
7. Open Adobe Photoshop, 13 x 19, 300 dpi.
8. Create your own original image, via photograph, drawing, etc.
9. Create a short, simple message combining words and image.