To achieve a retro look of vintage sci-fi posters and pulp fiction covers, there's the free Pulp-O-Mizer online software. The resulting images are somewhat small for printing purposes but look great online, as part of a larger work, or "tiled" in multiples (think of Warhol's 200 Campbell's Soup Cans).
Design parameters challenge students to consider the amount of data shared and alternate ways of displaying it, removing the ability to use traditional charts and graphs. |