Creative Library Displays

Display Tips
Personality Types
Barriers To Creative Thinking

- Don’t use more than two or three colours in a display and show them in tight groups

Repetition creates strong messages: a simple word like adventure, book or dinosaur spread over the display board immediately sets the theme.

If you create a poster with text and image(s) you can suggest a sense of adventure and ‘out of the box thinking’ if you paste the text or image not neatly within the borders of the paper but over it. (see: Travel the world display)

Vary the use of the display space. Don't go for the easy: "image at the top and text underneath it". It's like old underwear....... comfortable but not very attractive!!!!

Use different fonts and sizes for a text message on a poster. (see: Dinosaur display) Using only black Times New Roman 12, or any other font you usually use, doesn’t rouse the imagination. Use colours and shades. Red or blue text in ‘Librarian’ looks totally different than black TNR size 20.