Jul 2005
The poster
14/07/05 15:31 Filed in: Projects
My inspiration
I was recently browsing tuaw and read their story about something called a "Life poster".
Included in the story was a link to Mike mata’s blog where he posted instructions on how to create the poster.
Basically a life poster is a random selection of images that are printed onto a large piece of photo paper to create a multi-coloured poster that is composed entirely of your own photos.
My poster
I decided to create my own version of the life poster; however I was going to make a few changes to the design.
I wanted to use 6x4 photos and mount them by hand to a piece of A1 black mounting board.
I also wanted to create 4 posters and therefore needed 120 photos (30 photos for each poster).
Resources needed:
120 6x4 photos (£15.00)
4 Black mounting boards (£12.80)
Adhesives (£3.00)
Total cost= £30.80 ($54.00, €44.00)
I organised the photos that I wanted to use and then had them printed at a local photo shop.
I also bought the 4 mounting boards and some glue.
Once I got home I started to mount the photos, each poster took about 30mins to mount.
The entire project took me under 5 hours to complete.

I was recently browsing tuaw and read their story about something called a "Life poster".
Included in the story was a link to Mike mata’s blog where he posted instructions on how to create the poster.
Basically a life poster is a random selection of images that are printed onto a large piece of photo paper to create a multi-coloured poster that is composed entirely of your own photos.
My poster
I decided to create my own version of the life poster; however I was going to make a few changes to the design.
I wanted to use 6x4 photos and mount them by hand to a piece of A1 black mounting board.
I also wanted to create 4 posters and therefore needed 120 photos (30 photos for each poster).
Resources needed:
120 6x4 photos (£15.00)
4 Black mounting boards (£12.80)
Adhesives (£3.00)
Total cost= £30.80 ($54.00, €44.00)
I organised the photos that I wanted to use and then had them printed at a local photo shop.
I also bought the 4 mounting boards and some glue.
Once I got home I started to mount the photos, each poster took about 30mins to mount.
The entire project took me under 5 hours to complete.
