I suggest taking a look at their Workflow guidelines for how and where to start.
We didn't look at this site before "designing" our poster and walking into the Creative Services office (without an appointment) to drop off a disk of our materials. Like you probably saw (or skipped over, per my suggestion) in an earlier post, Kristen and I designed our poster ourselves, knowing and hoping that the design expertise of those at Creative Services would make it into something beautiful, eye-catching, "Columbia," and informative (even if that meant starting from scratch, which we were okay with).
Rather than design (no matter how great, no matter how poor), Creative Services prefers you bring them ideas and inspiration. Kristen found a photograph of decorative plates with birds on them. Her students liked those birds. Those are the birds I drew into our poster. Rather than draw them into a poster, Creative Services would prefer you bring them that particular photo and describe to them what you like about it.
There's a form you need to fill out. Make an appointment with Edward Thomas. Send him the form and a Word document (not a PDF) with the verbiage for your promotional materials. (Forms and contacts are available on the Workflow website). Bring inspiration and ideas to your meeting.
Info for form: Critical Encounters Fellow Eric Scholl suggested we print 200 posters. We said we needed the posters by April 21 (Wednesday of Week 12) for our May 12 event (Week 15).
Creative Services is in the process of creating our posters, looking for images that match the qualities we liked about the birds -- something drawn or painted, which we liked for its handmade quality, and something (like birds) that can represent the religious and the natural.
I'll let you know how the process continues.
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