Design size

Hello,

What are the basics in design i need to know regarding to the dimensions of e.x a banner? If the original banner will be 2m x 1m what size should my document be? 2m x 1m x 300dpi?

thanks

I think you'd be hard pressed to find a machine that will be able to handle such dimensions.

For banner work, your best bet is doing it in Illustrator or Corel Draw using as much vector artwork as you can. Using bitmaps at such sizes is very resource-intensive.

Contact whoever is going to be outputting your work for you, and find out what they feel would be best.

Agreed, those are quite demanding dimensions.

^^ not really. What about the billboards on highways, huge display signs/banners. His is quite small in comparison. But in comparison to web banners, yes they are very big.

Sounds like its for a display of some sort.
When designing layouts of this size, you need to work in an Aspect Ratio setting.

If you are printing 2m x 1m banner, I'd create the VECTOR file at 25% ratio size .(5m x. .25m) Reso doesn't matter in Illustrator...

Then you need to go to a print shop and have them 'blow' it up and let them know your aspect ratio and original size.

When in Illustrator, make sure on the final output, you Outline your text!!!! Print shops REQUIRE this if you send them AI, or EPS documents.

Yes i know that but thats only if you work with vectors. What about if the design has images in it..?

Same deal.. 300DPI image..

And its not only with vector, its pretty much for any large scale printing. Vector is the 'best' way of going about this.

Just think about it... You have a big banner, you'll need a 'big' picture. If you design in Ratio, the pic fits the size, the print shop can blow it up.

You haven't been to a print shop before have you? Like someone else had suggested, call the print shop up, get their specs and recommendations, then go from there.

i did , but until now i was designing in the actual size! A .psd file could take up to 1GB! anyway i will ask somebody who works at a print shop and get the info

thanks for your comments

Yes definately ask your printer. You might find you only need the artwork to be 70 - 90dpi. Perhaps even lower. A big banner like that will probably be hanging up high somewhere. Which means those who look at it will be standing far away. Which means resolution is not very important.

Massive billboard posters can be as low as 10dpi. If you look at them very closely you will see nothing but big halftone dots. The distance between the viewer and the poster compensate for resolution.