About
About Poster Index
An independent visual research tool for graphic designers, art directors, students and poster makers.
Poster Index is an independent visual research tool for graphic designers. It organizes award-winning and institutionally selected poster work into a searchable study archive.
The product goal is to make high-level graphic design easier to browse, compare, save and learn from — without turning the experience into a jargon-heavy database. Records carry only what their sources state; anything unverified stays visibly empty rather than being filled in.
The interface combines Pinterest-like discovery with source-backed design research, study prompts, award context and comparison tools. Scrolling is effortless; the research layer is one click away on every Study page.
Index at a glance
- Verified works
- 522
- Artworks on view
- 201
- Award sources
- 14
Built around
- Visual discovery
- A randomized, session-stable masonry feed that stays image-first and never shows an empty frame.
- Award-backed sourcing
- Every record is tied to a juried competition or institutional selection with a citable URL.
- Designer-oriented study prompts
- Hook, hierarchy, energy and transfer — the questions a designer actually asks of a poster.
- Event + culture curation
- Concert, festival, film, theatre and exhibition graphics grouped from source-backed tags.
- Compare
- Place up to four works side by side to read composition and typographic decisions against each other.
- Saved collections
- Keep references locally, grouped into named collections, without an account.
- Source provenance
- Provenance status, image origin and credits are recorded per record; unverified fields stay empty.
- Responsive browsing
- The same archive reads well from a 390px phone to a wide desktop grid.
Two layers, one research system
Publication layer
A rights-conscious research presentation
The publication layer presents the full verified index — designer, title, award, edition, year, country, classification and the original publication link — while artwork display follows a per-record rights review. Where a poster is not shown, the record remains fully searchable and the official source is one click away.
Research layer
The sourcing and study workflow
The research layer preserves the complete sourcing, comparison, classification and study workflow used to maintain the project: how records are verified, how works are read against each other, and how each written study is built.
Separating those layers allows rigorous internal research while keeping the public surface deliberately conservative. Both layers follow the same dataset, the same sourcing rules and the same design system — only what is presented differs.
Authorship
Concept, product strategy, art direction, UX architecture, visual system, curation rules and quality control by CCR515.
Developed through an AI assisted workflow directed and reviewed by CCR515.
Rights
Poster artwork remains the property of its respective designers, studios, clients and rights holders. POSTER INDEX is an independent research and reference project and does not claim ownership of featured artwork.
Each record links back to the official source page it was recorded from, and image credits are shown wherever the source publishes them.
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