yeah. An A1 poster is massive, so *can* have a lot of detail but I guess it depends. If you were designing it for a bus shelter you'd still want few words written big.
But I was imaging something more like this one which has some quite intricate details and small text: http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Bestofosm-2010-small.png Never mind what I was imagining though... someone should contact the organisers and put the question to them: http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/call-presentations/ Harry ________________________________ From: Michael Duprey <[email protected]> To: Dan S <[email protected]> Cc: Harry Wood <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, 24 August 2013, 20:54 Subject: Re: [HOT] Designing a big HOT poster I'm with Dan in agreeing that the current poster is well-suited to an A1 format. My only suggestion would be some slight polishing of the typography and margins. Michael On Saturday, August 24, 2013 at 3:50 PM, Dan S wrote: IMHO that poster design has about ideal density for A1 portrait. >Good-looking too. I certainly wouldn't add more text. Go with that, is >my 2p. > > >Dan > > >2013/8/24 Harry Wood <[email protected]>: >I'm wondering if HOT should put in a poster design for this: >http://2013.stateofthemap.org/info/call-presentations/ >> >> >>The conference organisers are offering to get it printed A1 size for free I >>think. Deadline this coming Wednesday >> >> >>I'm just throwing that idea out there. Don't have time to work on it myself. >> >> >> >> >>This could be a good task for someone who's into graphics design. You >>wouldn't necessarily need to be attending the conference. We probably get to >>keep the printed poster (not sure), or at least we'd get some photos of >>people admiring it, so ...worth doing. >> >> >>We have a nice HOT poster design by Emir: >>http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/File:Hot-poster.svg >> >> >> >> >>Could just submit that, but... printed A1 size I imagine a poster might look >>better with more details on it (e.g. landscape, with double the number >>photos/text/maps) >> >> >> >> >>Harry >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>HOT mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot > > >_______________________________________________ >HOT mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot _______________________________________________ HOT mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/hot
