Need opinions on college poster.

[SeeIn2D]

Okay basically I'm a senior in high school right now and my top choice of college is Penn State. I'm applying into the graphic design major and I have to make a poster about a modern issue. I had the idea to do a poster about population growth. The reason being, is because a couple weeks ago Ban Ki-Moon visited my school to talk about the world population recently reaching 7 billion. For anyone who's out of touch, Ban Ki-Moon is the General Secretary of the UN. So this sort of inspired me to make my poster about the population thing.

So I was thinking of making two representations on this poster, one showing rural less populated areas, and one showing a city. I'll make a lot of people in the city area, and like one in a rural area. Then at the top I wanted to put like a slogan, "It's not space we need. It's innovation." or something to that effect. Apparently you could fit all 7 billion people on earth shoulder to shoulder in Los Angeles alone so thats what the slogan is basically implying. That we don't really need space, we just need people who can think of how to utilize the space we do in fact have to it's highest potential.

Any opinions on this idea? Thanks for any help!

Also captcha. Really? It gave me 3 1/2 as a typed fraction. Nice...

 

[Grimsinger]

I'd love to help, but its hard to get a grasp on what your trying to do by reading a shot paragraph. If you could post a few tumbnails for me to look at, I'd be more than happy to help. (Man, I'm such an art student....)

 

[Grimsinger]

No offense to you, but if you are designing this poster to get into college then it needs to be entirely your work. If we help you design it, then you aren't so much demonstrating your creativity and skill as you are demonstrating that you can get ideas off the internet.

I've worked as a graphic designer (not a very good one, mind) and it's hard. The key to a good design is not to wait for inspiration to strike. The key is to work at it. Make 20 rough designs. Don't develop them, just play around with composition, color contrasts, light and shadow. Experiment with different ideas. From those, choose your best 5 or so and develop them into rough sketches. Get other people's input on which sketch they like best. If you wanted to post your top few possibilities and have us vote on which one you should develop into your final poster, I think we'd be happy to help. But if we aren't just reacting to your work but contributing ideas of our own, our participation isn't really ethical.

Listen to this guy. This is what I would have said, if I had though about what you were asking for more than five seconds.