100 Days of Posters / Day 078 of 100

Day 78: Ten Minutes

A poster against the clock.

Chapter
08 Experimentation
Level
Advanced
Time
10 minutes
Canvas
1080 × 1350 px

The principle

Time pressure removes overthinking. With only ten minutes, there is no time to second-guess — you must rely on instinct and the skills you have built over the last 77 days. Speed exercises reveal what you have absorbed and what still requires effort.

Objective. Rely on instinct and accumulated skill under time pressure.

The brief

Set a timer for ten minutes and design a poster for a pop-up event of your choosing.

Constraints

  • Exactly ten minutes from blank canvas to finished poster
  • Stop when the timer ends, finished or not
  • No preparation before starting the timer

You're done when

  • Made within ten minutes
  • Instinctive, confident decisions
  • A readable poster

Stretch goal

Do it three times in a row with three different subjects.