Lecture Series: a dense spirograph plate for a public lecture poster
Lecture Series is a public lecture poster where the image does the explaining. A spirograph with Symmetry 4 against Resonance 9 winds 48 black hairlines into a dense rosette that fills the Caption plate and touches its top edge, with one blue strand tracing the path of the pen. Below the rule, Proof sits in black grotesk and Pattern in blue serif italic, beside the summary and a mono table of the curve's ratio, phase and lines.
Make it yours
Change the gears
In a spirograph, Symmetry and Resonance work like the tooth counts of two gears. The 4 and 9 pairing here makes many interlaced loops, while a simple pair such as 3 and 1 gives a few round lobes that hold up at small sizes.
Title it in two parts
The Headline Proof & *Pattern* joins two nouns with an ampersand and marks the second with asterisks, so it turns blue and italic. Form & *Function* or Light & *Matter* behave the same way, and the type refits across eight columns.
FAQ
How do I fit a full lecture programme on this poster?
Keep the Headline to the series title and let the other fields carry the rest. Body, up to three lines, describes the series, the Eyebrow names the department, and the Footer gives day, time, room and admission in a single line along the bottom.
How it works
Choose a layout and a line system
Combine one of 5 layouts, Swiss, Split, Cover, Caption or Oversized, with one of 5 equations, or start from one of 17 looks such as Kunsthalle, Riso Duo or Night Conference.
Write and set your copy
Edit the Eyebrow, Headline, Body and Footer, choose a Grotesk, Condensed, Wide or Serif Typeface, and wrap one word of the headline in asterisks to set it in serif italic.
Tune the drawing and use it
Adjust Symmetry, Resonance, Coupling, Phase, Warp, Copies, Line width and Shape scale, choose a Clean, Riso, Grid or Overprint finish and the colors, then sign in with a free UX Pilot account to use it on the canvas or export it.