West Side Fest: How to Create A Poster Workshop

Learn how to design a poster in this special hands-on workshop with designer and printer Nicholas Hurd. Participants will look closely at two of the museum’s current exhibitions, Puerto Rico in Print: Lorenzo Homer and Fallout: Atoms for War & Peace, for ideas about how to create a successful poster design. Using collage, stencils, stamps, and pens, attendees will sketch ideas for posters focusing on the relationship between image and type, and consider text hierarchies, composition, color schemes, and effective ways of drawing the viewer’s attention to a message. No previous experience necessary.

Nicholas Hurd is a designer and printer at Radix Printing and Publishing Cooperative in Brooklyn, New York. He began his artistic career designing flyers for punk shows in the Bay Area and spent many years working in print shops as a letterpress printer. He has a BFA in Printmaking from San Francisco Art Institute and an MFA from California College of the Arts. Hurd is also an alumnus of the Hatch Show Print internship program. He is an expert in hand-set type and digital design, and continues to design and print posters, books, and printed ephemera with Radix.

Accessibility Note: Masks and clear masks are available free of charge at the museum. Assistive listening devices and stools are available. ASL (American Sign Language) interpretation or a CART (Communication Access Realtime Translation) is also available upon request. Please contact access@posterhouse.org or (914) 295-2387 to request interpretation services and to address any other accessibility needs. For other event-related questions, please contact info@posterhouse.org.