You must stand out

This tower of pub­lic notices stands in down­town Boul­der, Col­orado — the home of a uni­ver­sity with more than 30,000 stu­dents. Most of the posters are for live music events.

Did you notice that all of them look more or less the same?

How hard would it be to design a poster with catchy full-color photo sur­rounded by a sig­nif­i­cantly large white bor­der ? Or maybe a 98% black poster with just a tiny bit of white type in the cen­ter? Then just put one on top of about every fifth stan­dard poster. Those would stand out.

Take­away: Let’s think out­side the box, my friends.