Why “posters” is being discussed
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> Amateurs posters of before AI didn't have this problem. As someone who made posters in 2000, I respectfully disagree.
by frgturpwd · Sep 20, 2026
What is it when HN posters label winning an actually lottery (the H1b lottery) as meritocracy?
by _DeadFred_ · Sep 20, 2026
Making a poster is free and easy. Literal children do it in school. I’ve made posters for events. Affinity is free now, it takes you like an hour to learn it from scratch and ma…
by Gigachad · Sep 20, 2026
I know this is an internet forum, but do you have any experience with posters? There are many great tools to create posters from templates. You can make something in canva for e…
by nevertoolate · Sep 20, 2026
Going through pentagram's site, their shakespeare in the park posters do give me that AI vibe. Perhaps AI has been trained in many such similar posters, but as a layman, I'd be…
by potamic · Sep 20, 2026
They do, the very fact of using such posters indicates the lack of necessary competence and or resources in the process that can discern quality to fix the results
by eviks · Sep 20, 2026
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A poster is a large sheet, usually made of some type of paper or plastic, that is placed either on a public space to promote something or on a wall as decoration. Typically, posters include both textual and graphic elements, although a poster may be either wholly graphical or wholly text. Posters are designed to be both eye-catching and informative. Posters may be used for many purposes. They are a frequent tool of advertisers, propagandists, protestors, and other groups trying to communicate a message. Posters are also used for reproductions of artwork, particularly famous works, and are generally low-cost compared to the original artwork. The modern poster, as we know it, however, dates back to the 1840s and 1850s when the printing industry perfected colour lithography and made mass production possible. Read more on Wikipedia