The posters are created for a number of purposes: from movie and products advertising to home decoration. Before, the posters were the primary sources of products advertising and ideas promotion. Now, they are still used for ads and promotions but one more function has been added – the decorative one. People decorate not only their homes, but also offices, educational establishments, restaurants etc.
The posters, which are used for decorative purposes, don’t need to be eye-catching and informative, their main task is to become an integral part of the interior décor and complement it. A poster needs to blend with the style of the place, where it hangs, and its color scheme, match the tastes of the owners.
Moreover, it can also represent the views and interests of its owners. Thus, if you are fond of travels, you may hang nice travel posters or if you are a dog fan, choose a cute dog poster.
There are a great number of cool posters for sale. They have to do with almost all possible themes: from scientific posters to the ones, featuring artworks. However, if you can’t find the one, which satisfies all your demands, you may try to do it yourself. If you know how to work with graphic design programs, there will be no problems for you in creating the poster of your dreams, which won’t only match your taste but also become a great wall décor for your dwelling or whatever place you want to hang it in.
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How to Make a Cool Poster
If you make up your mind to create your own poster, we would like to provide you with some tips, which will help you to create the ideal poster.
Start with the idea. The first thing you need to do is to choose the theme and concept for your poster. Don’t concentrate on the details and illustrations at the beginning. Start with a general idea and work it out by small parts.
Concentrate on the design. Interesting design is the key element of each poster, especially for those, who seek for originality. In order to make a poster unique, you may add something personal to it, the thing, which won’t be used by anyone else. Despite originality, you should also think about the quality of the design. The basic rules for the creation of good design of any genre and style are: 1) the use of contrasts and the combination of light and dark areas (for example, the use of dark text on a light background or vice versa); 2) the text and the graphics mustn’t make the poster look too cluttered, but, at the same time, there shouldn’t be too many empty areas on the poster; 3) all the images must be of good quality.
Choose the right size. The sizes of the posters can be different. There are several standard sizes for posters like 11”x17”, 16”x20”, 18”x24” and 24”x36” as well as a number of non-standard sizes. Different images look good in different poster sizes. For example, a landscape poster looks better in large formats while 11”x17” size can be enough for a cat photo. In addition, posters have either vertical or horizontal orientation. Vertical orientation is more common, but the horizontal one is the best option for landscapes, car posters or the images of long but not high buildings.
Cool Poster Ideas
If you have no idea what poster you want but are resolute to make the one, here are several examples of cool poster designs, which will inspire you.
Cool Posters for Guys
The posters for guys frequently represent their interests and hobbies. It can be an image of a car, plane or ship, the one, featuring their favorite video game, comics or movie character, the pictures of beautiful girls etc. If you decide, for example, to make a poster of Yoda from Star Wars, you can find an image of this character and make it unique, using interesting filters and graphic design techniques as well as add text to it.
A Yoda Poster
Cool Posters for Girls
Girls are more tend to use romantic pictures, the images of flowers and animals. The use of photos of their favorite actors and actresses is also quite widespread. In addition, females like to use the text posters with motivational phrases about beauty as well as the funny posters. Usually, the girls think more not about the image itself but how it looks in the room interior and combines with other pieces of decor.
A Flowers Poster
Cool Movie Posters
Movie posters are universal. They suit both men and women and can be used in a number of different room designs and styles. It’s not necessary to think about the color scheme as this kind of posters suits almost all possible wall colors. If you want to get a creative movie poster, do it yourself. You can take an image to any movie and change its design to your liking. For example, you can turn a “Date Night” poster into the one to movie “Date Night of the Living Dead”, picturing the main characters as zombies.
A Cool Movie Poster
Cool Video Game Posters
A number of video games posters can be used in various designs just like the movie ones. However, some of them are of more restricted use. For example, the poster of “Deus Ex” is rather neutral while the one of “World of Warcraft” will look good only in the room of a young man or a teenager.
A Cool Video Game Poster
Cool Science Posters
Science issues are a good theme not only for cool college posters but for your home collection as well. Intelligence is always in trend and that’s why, if you like science, feel free to place a poster connected with it. For example, you may choose a poster, featuring periodic table of the elements.
A Periodic Table of Elements Poster
Cool World Map Poster
It becomes rather popular to use maps as the wall décor. Some people give preference to the traditional variants while the others like more artistic variants like watercolor, pixelated or abstract maps. You are also free to modify the world map poster into your own artwork.
A Cool World Map Poster
Cool Sports Posters
A great number of posters, dedicated to various kinds of sports, are for sale. You may find cool wall posters, featuring popular kinds of sports like football or tennis as well as the more rare ones like ballooning or wingsuit flying. The sports posters are often complemented by motivational phrases about fitness and the healthy way of life.
A Sports Poster
Cool Car Posters
Car posters aren’t only used for boys’ rooms. They can be a nice decoration for a living room or an entryway as well. The images of retro cars will look great in a vintage design as well as the rustic one, unique sports cars are better for modern and high-tech styles. But the image of a car can serve as just a background. You can complement the poster with additional graphical elements and text.
A Cool Car Poster
Cool Art Posters
Art posters aren’t just the reproductions of paintings. They can be considered as separate pieces of art as the majority of them don’t imitate the ready paintings but are absolutely unique artworks. It’s impossible to count all possible themes, which can be used for such cool room posters. They may feature everything: from vintage to abstract art. If you are very creative, feel free to try making your own art poster.
A Cool Art Poster
Now, the posters aren’t just advertising tools as they used to be. They turned into pieces of art. If you create a poster, it doesn’t matter what theme it’s dedicated to. But it’s crucial that you add a part of your soul to it and like the process itself. Then, you will be definitely impressed by the results of your work and, maybe, even create a real masterpiece.
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