Design Activity 3: Poster
Plan and design an attractive and appealing poster to advertise a fictional seminar. Use
colour and images as you see fit. The details of the seminar are as follows:
The seminar is being given by a visiting
academic Dr Martyn Wild from the
University of Washington. Dr Wild will be
presenting a talk to interested staff and
students in Room 3.251 of the Arts Building
at ECU Mount Lawley on Thursday July
14th 2007 at 12pm. A light lunch will be
provided. The title of his talk will be
Electronic Performance Support Systems for
Learning. Dr Wild will be talking about the
design of electronic performance systems as
learning supports for large undergraduate
classes. He will be using ideas developed
from his research activities and will
showcase student work from his classes at
The University of Washington. Staff who
are interested in attending should inform Ms
Kylie White in the Arts Faculty Office by
email (k.white@ecu.edu.au) or by phone
9371 6641. Intending attendees need to
respond by Thursday 30th June 2007.
Submission Requirements
Submit your solution to this problem as a Word document . The submission should follow
the format given below:
• The first page should show the poster
• the following pages should contain information that describes the design considerations
you used and explains how the design was planned and the design principles employed,
with references to the readings and resource material that informed your design.
• You are required to gain some feedback on the quality of the brochure from appropriate
sources. The feedback should deal with such aspects of the design as attractiveness,
appeal and readability. Discuss the feedback gained and describe improvements/changes
made. The reference list should follow.
Note: The file you submit must be less than 1 Mbyte in size and have a legal file name eg.
activity2.doc or JillAdams.doc..
Marking Criteria
• Quality of the product
• Scope of information reviewed and used
• Quality of the conceptual underpinnings
• Quality of the review and reflection
• Quality of the references and referencing
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