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A Broad History Of Posters

By: Annie Deakin

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Examples of a type of poster can be found in the Shakespearean era, when small posters or pieces of what passed for paper at the time were put up around town to advertise the latest play by the Bard. Truly, they've had an interesting history.

In technical terms, a poster can be just about any piece of printed paper that is designed to be a fixed to a wall or any other vertical surface. For the most part, posters usually contain elements of both text and graphics in order to get their message across. This may sometimes be from an advertising standpoint or some sort of political or socioeconomic commentary, even.

As a form of art, posters have been designed over the years to be both appealing to the eye and many times deeply contextual in the ways that they convey their information. There are many different uses for a poster, including in advertising, as a mechanism for conveying propaganda and as a general way to convey or communicate a particular message, either by persons or groups.

The history of the poster in its modern form goes back to around 1870, when printing had finally become technologically capable of producing color lithographs and mass producing them on a scale that hadn't been possible prior to improvements in printing presses several years before. Within a century of that fateful day, posters had become a part of many cultures and societies.

Anybody of a certain age can remember the myriad of posters that made their debut in the 1960s psychedelic era and the artists that became famous for their poster art. This included Peter Max and Andy Warhol to name just a couple. Poster styles over the decades have taken on the characteristics of many famous art movements, including Art Nouveau and Art Deco along with certain Cubist variations.

There are a wide variety of techniques used in the printing of posters these days and in their past. The vast majority of today's examples are pretty much mass-produced using the latest printing technologies. Usually, a poster is filled with text and graphics on one side but will be completely blanked on the other in order to make it better able to be affixed to a flat surface.

Most pinup size posters are normally printed on any type of paper known in the industry as A3 Standard Silk, which seems to be -- and has been for many decades -- the single best medium for print jobs that include some element of lithography. Nowadays, there are several good poster creation software programs, some of which can be downloaded for free. Standard office or home printers are quite capable of printing a poster.

The history of posters began somewhere in the time of William Shakespeare and really began to take a place in our culture with the perfection of lithographic techniques that occurred somewhere around 1870. Mass production in printing enabled these unique and interesting forms of art and communication to be spread to the masses with relative ease. Posters today come in different styles and different meanings.

There is an endless supply of posters being printed everyday. Custom posters can be produced also. It is important when designing your poster to keep a goal of the poster in mind. You should know what kind of poster you want to make. Categorizing your poster is important. There are several categories which posters fall into. You should choose a category for your poster before beginning the design.

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Annie is an expert furniture and interior design writer. Her current area of specialism is leather armchair, dining furniture sale and kitchen sale

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