To create a successful poster, you must plan in advance by considering your audience and determining what information to include. You should gather supplies and decide how to organize the poster before beginning the design process. The document provides guidance on designing effective posters, including defining the term "silhouette" and listing lesson objectives to identify the purpose and audience of sample student posters.

1. Silhouette Poster
Design

2. What do I need to do first?
• A successful poster is not created overnight.
Preparing a well-organized, visually-pleasing
poster requires you to plan well in
advance.
• First, consider your audience and what type
of poster you'll create.
• Next, gather your supplies and decide what
information to include.

3. ACT High School Poster
Concept Contest
First Place Winner
$5,000 Scholarship
Christian Klein
Fort Lauderdale, Florida

6. What does silhouette mean?
A silhouette is the image of a person, an object or
scene represented as a solid shape of a single color,
usually black, its edges matching the outline of the
subject.

12. Lesson Objectives:
Students will:
• Identify the purpose of the posters, connecting to a
recent projects that students have already completed.
• Provide details on the event (e.g., a class session, a
concert).
• Explain who the audiences for the posters will be.