Propaganda Information

Here is a collection of information about making a propaganda poster.  It includes links about/sample of propaganda, page layout, and fonts. I am not advocating any of the ideas espoused by this propaganda, I am just linking to it for the sake of examples. At this point in time, Adobe InDesign is the most popular page layout application followed by Quark Xpress; both commercial products. You can choose to use Scribus instead if you would like. Scribus is a free/opensource page layout application available from scribus.net.

THE GRAPHIC IMPERATIVE: POLITICAL POSTERS @ MASSART 
http://www.bigredandshiny.com/cgi-bin/retrieve.pl?section=review&issue=issue27&article=(hide)THE_ROZOME_MASTERS_1213139&

An assignment on making a peace poster with some good links
http://www.acesart.com/gd_sem01_07/peaceposters/graphicdesign_peace.htm

Author on numerous books on propaganda
http://www.nancysnow.com/



Stefan Landsberger's Chinese Propaganda Poster Pages
http://www.iisg.nl/landsberger/

Vintages ads and propoganda
http://abduzeedo.com/great-vintage-advertising-and-propaganda

Propaganda
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda

Propaganda posters
http://www.earthstation1.com/warpostr.html

American WWI war posters
http://www.world-war-pictures.com/american-war-posters.htm

Random propaganda posters
http://forum.nationstates.net/viewtopic.php?t=16014&f=23&view=unread

Crazy propaganda posters
http://www.oddee.com/item_66536.aspx

More posters....
http://www.diggerhistory.info/pages-posters/american.htm

Russian Propaganda
http://www.davno.ru/soviet-posters/propaganda/poster-25.html

A Soviet Poster a Day Blog
http://sovietposter.blogspot.com/


InDesign links

Blog about type
http://blogs.adobe.com/typblography/

How to wrap text
http://www.ehow.com/how_5031347_use-text-wrap-adobe-indesign.html

Resource for Indesign articles
http://indesignsecrets.com/

Rolling through fonts
http://www.creativetechs.com/iq/roll_through_your_fonts_in_indesign.html

Tutorial on designing an event poster in InDesign
http://www.layersmagazine.com/designing-an-event-poster-in-indesign.html

Tutorial on designing a magazine cover in InDesign
http://www.layersmagazine.com/magazine-cover-design-in-indesign.html

Leading and Kerning in QuarkXPress and InDesign
http://designorati.com/articles/t1/typography/653/how-to-leading-and-kerning-in-quarkxpress-and-indesign.php


Fonts
Source of free fonts
http://www.dafont.com/



Make your own font

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/    Free online font creation site 

 

Make font from your handwriting

http://www.fontcapture.com/  FREE

http://www.yourfonts.com/     $9-15.95

http://www.fontifier.com/         $9

 

How to install TrueType font on your Windows computer 

http://desktoppub.about.com/cs/fixfonts/ht/install_fonts_w.htm