Major Personal Poster Digital Project

A mihimihi is a way of introducing yourself in Maori. We will be adapting this to create a poster that describes you including elements you would find in a mihimihi.

Your challenge is to design and create a digital mihimihi that creates interest and is enaging. Your poster can include images and/or text and should be personalised, telling your story in your own way. Your poster should include the elements from your life but you can also add anything else you feel is important to you like animals, experiences, hobbies, passions, key moments etc.

Have a look at the images on this page for inspiration!!

Task 1 - Research

You now need to do some research into possible designs for your poster. A very good resource for these is looking at movie posters as they are stylized and convey lots of information mainly in pictures.

Good sources of inspiration are:

Movie Posters
Book Covers
CD Covers
Game Posters

Task 2 - Design Your Digital Mihimihi

Grab an A4 piece of paper & pencil

You can do one sketch or split the paper into half and come up with 2 designs.

You are to sketch your digital mihimihi design and include some notes to help describe what it will be like.

Remember you are trying to include some of your history/culture and maybe some of you now.

Be creative and don't worry about how you will make this.

This is about getting your ideas out and not about how well you can draw.

You need to think about some design elements & principles:

where your elements are placed
use of image and/or text
fonts
sizes - hierarchy
colours

Techquity Drawing Sheet Template A4 5mm dots 50%.pdf

Task 3 - Set Up Your Artboard

HOW TO SET UP YOUR FILE

A4 size is 210mm x 297mm

In Gimp

Open Gimp
File -> New (or CTRL+N)
Under Template select A4
Select orientation (portrait or landscape)
Under advanced and fill with the default is background colour which is white. You can select a transparent background if you want.
Then click OK
Once you can see your A4 canvas you need to make sure you save
Save - CTRL+S. Make sure you are in your personal drive and you rename the file to yourname_poster.xcf

In Photoshop

Open Photoshop
File -> New (or CTRL+N)
Select PRINT and you should see an A4 option
You can name your file now where it says untitled
Select orientation (portrait or landscape
Should be CMYK
By default the background colour is white. You can select a transparent background if you want.
Then click OK
Once you can see your A4 canvas you need to make sure you save
Save - CTRL+S. Make sure you are in your H drive and you rename the file appropriatelyy

Task 4 - Get Going!

Now is the time that you start making your poster. Use the tools you have at your disposal to put together your poster. There are lots of online tutorials available in the GIMP section of the website otherwise your teacher should be able to show you how to get started.

Task 5 - Exporting your image

Press File > Export. Your Gimp file should already be in your H: Drive and named appropriately.

You just need to select JPEG or PNG from the Select File Type options at bottom then export. You may have to press export again when there is a pop-up.

Marking Criteria

Experiencing Difficulty

Not finished
Little technical skill demonstrated
A collage of images with no or little editing done

Achieved

Some design evident
Some technical skills shown
Maybe missing some key elements like a name

Achieving Well

Good design shown
Several techniques used to develop poster
Maybe missing some key elements

Excelling

Well developed poster with clear aesthetic design
Strong technical skill shown
Has a range of elements included; name, images, own photos etc

Note: Use of copywrited images may result in work being marked down

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