Calling all graphic designers

[velvetpage]

I have a request for you.

I need a poster to put up in a couple of classrooms in my school, and I don't know how to design such a thing myself. The idea is this:

There is a large umbrella on the poster. On the umbrella are the words: "This ___________ we are working on:" followed by two blank lines, with "Math" written under one of the lines (on the left side of the handle) and "Literacy" written under the other line (on the right side of the handle.)

Down the handle itself are the short forms for the five school days - Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri - and on either side of the handle are empty text boxes corresponding to each day of the week (so, five on the left and five on the right.) This part of things should take up at least two-thirds of the space, because those boxes are where the important day-to-day information is going to go. I'd like a strong background colour behind the white text boxes. I don't really care what the colour scheme of the background is, as long as it's fairly bright and cheery. The lettering needs to be legible from a distance (say, the back of the classroom if the poster is on the blackboard) and in a fairly simple font.

Any takers? I don't think I can pay anyone to do this, but you could try to pitch it to an education materials company when you're done. All teachers in Ontario are being advised to post their lesson goals for every lesson, every day, and I suspect if you came up with half a dozen different ones of a similar type and offered them, you'd get a good response.

I just need the image itself, which I can then get printed at Staples and laminated.

Comments

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

All teachers in Ontario are being advised to post their lesson goals for every lesson, every day

Wha? Who? Who's doing the advising, in what forum, and *all* teachers? Really?

News to me.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

Have you heard of the School Effectiveness Framework? It's one of the look-fors of effective schools, and it's straight out of that document. This year, only the pilot schools are involved; next year, it'll be every school in the province, phased in over a year or two.

[hannahmorgan.livejournal.com]

Nope. Not that I know of, though...but then my jargon filter is often strong. :)

[kianir.livejournal.com]

Roughed something out for you tonight.

[velvetpage.livejournal.com]

That's great! I'll show it to my colleagues and see what they think, and maybe we'll get you to tweak it, but it's a great start!

[catsarah.livejournal.com]

Wow, that looks awesome! And you did it so quickly! :)

[lee-in-limbo.livejournal.com]

Nice.

Lee.