Today's centering exercise: Imagining Generic Posters.
Posters with designs that serve any and all purposes in any given environment.
Here's a few to get you started:
- Neutral Photograph of Kitten standing next to rotary phone with receiver laying off its base.
- Sharpened Pencil standing in middle of row of Unsharpened Pencils.
- Star Constellation that looks vaguely like Albert Einstein
- Spanish Muppets (group shot)
- Entire text of Encyclopedia Britannica in 7pt font
- Windsurfer sailing over a 19th Century Steam Engine Locomotive
- The Backs of all US Presidents' Heads
Today’s centering exercise: Imagining Generic Posters.
Posters with designs that serve any and all purposes in any given environment.
Here’s a few to get you started:
- Neutral Photograph of Kitten standing next to rotary phone with receiver laying off its base.
- Sharpened Pencil standing in middle of row of Unsharpened Pencils.
- Star Constellation that looks vaguely like Albert Einstein
- Spanish Muppets (group shot)
- Entire text of Encyclopedia Britannica in 7pt font
- Windsurfer sailing over a 19th Century Steam Engine Locomotive
- The Backs of all US Presidents’ Heads
Write down your best 32,000 designs and leave them in a neat list in the comment section.
– Room filled to the ceiling with large blue Swiss exercise balls
– Used tire heap covering a 5 acre parcel on an abandoned farm
– Glossy of healthy beafsteak tomato plants
– Granite quarry hole
– Numerous little ziplock baggies labeled, “Picasso’s fingernails” & “Picasso’s toenails”
– Formica factory
– A field of overgrown white clover
– Man in polo shirt and hard hat standing next to white cargo van
– Action photograph of plastic cup stacking competition
– Clipboards fanned out on a table
– A tall glass of water in front of a closed miniblind window
– Clown with clown pants covered in cake
– Parking lot covered in carpet samples
– Marble painted like the Earth between a businessman’s forefinger and thumb
– Same marble in a baby’s mouth
– Monkeys sitting around a campfire in boyscout uniforms
– An overweight housewife hauling a 50# bag of certified organic flower fertilizer on her shoulder, oversized SUV in near distance
– Multicolored sandwich toothpicks with US flags stuck in a sandcastle shaped like the whitehouse
– All 26 letters of the alphabet drawn using cat hairballs and vomit
– A stack of hundreds in a bear trap with dried blood on the teeth
– A pine tree with a cold, sneezing pine tar into a pond
– Extreme close-ups in high resolution of cable news personalities’ mouths
– Hotel toilet paper origami instructions