Experimental Design Techniques: Break the Rules
The Typographic Poster
A course by Cihan Tamti , Designer
About the video: The Typographic Poster
Overview
“Now you will see how I use my graphics and my own experimental headline for the typographic poster.”
In this video lesson Cihan Tamti addresses the topic: The Typographic Poster, which is part of the Domestika online course: Experimental Design Techniques: Break the Rules. Push the boundaries of design by creating three posters using experimental typography, analog tools, and digital compositions.
Partial transcription of the video
“The typographic poster Finally, we created the headline for the poster. Next we will design the typographic poster. To do this, we go to InDesign and create a poster in DIN A1 with 3 mm bleed. We insert the heading that we drew. Preferably as big as possible. The reason why we go to InDesign is, that we can tune much better renders and create compositions. There are also the intelligent guides, which are very helpful. Next comes the subheadline in Helvetica Bold. A bit bigger. "A course for experimentalists posters with” We will do this with forced justification. To get this top bar, can be...”
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Course summary for: Experimental Design Techniques: Break the Rules
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Category
Design -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Graphic Design, Poster Design, Typography Design

Cihan Tamti
A course by Cihan Tamti
Cihan Tamti is a graphic designer based in Bochum, Germany. After discovering his passion for typography and poster design through graffiti art, he trained as a design technical assistant and studied communication design. As a student, he set up his own business, creating original typography for Adobe and graphic concepts for Calvin Klein.
He also published the first issue of his magazine, Homebound, while he was still studying. The posters he put on social media attracted a lot of interest and Stefan Sagmeister named him one of the top five designers on Instagram. 100 of his posters from 2019-2020 were collected in the book BREAKOUT, published by Slanted Publishers, as well as the Homebound - New Wave edition of his magazine. In addition, Cihan gives lectures and workshops at universities and industry festivals.
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