From the course: Designing a Poster
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Setting up the type
- [Narrator] In this project, I'll be creating a poster for a graduate fashion show, where I'm taking the type and I'm molding it to the contours of the face and the body. This is quite a confrontational look, one inspired by the work of Stefan Sagmeister, who is known for molding type around figures, or around faces, or even, most extremely, carving those figures into his own body. Now, ours is going to be a lot less paint than that. This is my starting point. I have the image, which has been sized to the size of the poster. I'm using an A3 size page. If we take a look at the image size dialog box, you see we have the dimensions of A3, which is 297 by 420, plus six millimeters to account for the bleed. And I'm at a resolution of 300 pixels per inch. And then, I have a layer group for the sponsored information. We could come and clip logos to these gray squares. I'm just going to leave those as they are for now. But then, we have these multiple layers of type, each piece of type…
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