Posters in Middle Ages?

[Jules]

One word

Pargeting...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pargeting
http://www.pargeting.com/
http://www.pargetters.com/Medieval-Images.php

get plastered that's what I say

[inkydave]

Graffitti is historically correct. I think woodblock prints,in black and white,with little or no script would pass muster. Imagine a religious fanatic ranting outside an inn against the evils of drink and handing out pamphlets. This is your project so whatever feels and looks right to you IS right. Build a printers/booksellers in your town and he can advertise his wares by fly-posting

[Galland]

I would use posters, printed matters, as for various reasons, and them being that they are most certianly within the Warhammer Lore, both for "current" times and the Mordheim period, the other, and perhaps most important reason, they look great, they add colour and life to otherwise rather dark stone/plaster walls.

Go for it I say... yes do it Professor, I know I will!

[joroas]

The pargeting site suggests it began in the reign of Henry VIII, so not medieval...........   

[inkydave]

Here is some inspiration.

[inkydave]

bugger!!! same one twice-  o_oDOH

[FramFramson]

Love that Shub-Niggurath poster! 

[Major Weenie]

Pub Signs ?

When I was a schoolboy no trip to a local was complete without my father's explanation that the 'original' signs would not have had words.  Only pictures.

[bandit86]

 BRING OUT YOUR DEAD, BRING OUT YOUR DEAD

THE DEAD WILL BE COLLECTED ON SATURDAY FROM NOON TILL FOUR AND THIRTY OF THE CLOCK.

[carlos marighela]

I'm guessing that there simply wasn't a Justin Bieber, an ABBA or cute kitties who posed precariously on laundry lines and that there was a complete absence of girls in tennis slips scratching their arse in  medieval times. I wonder what the pre Guttenberg page 3 girl or the Cup Winner insert poster was like?

I suppose this is a possibility:

[joroas]

People at the time had no idea that rats carried the plague, but new research suggests that the Black Death wasn't bubonic/pneumonic.

[senex]

google picture search "woodcut" & "insert wanted topic here" gives a lot of useful pics 
resize to the size of a stamp or smaller
print on "not-too-white-paper"
cut out, but with not too straight or even edges
ready to plaster the walls 

[Prof.Witchheimer]

thanks to all, lots of interesting ideas here, I think I've got inspiration I was looking for. I will definitely try it with "Graffiti" and also some posters like these suggested by inkydave.

[Galland]

The pargeting site suggests it began in the reign of Henry VIII, so not medieval...........   

That is a modification of truth. As I have posted before, go ahead with posters, that I made with the full knowledge of what is and what is not medieval or good for the debatable and up for discussion period called the Renaissance.
Please dont claim what is medieval or not within this time period, since there is no reall line of time change until the paradigm of late 1500 in to the 1600s. There greatest changes start around 1490-1530 and another change around 1550-1570. Then we move in to the new time of the 1600, wich in it self serve as an period digesting the changes made earlier. I am sure there are other oppinions out there, wich naturally is totally insignificant


There is no point in going in to detailes of what is period and not, the Warhammer setting, is set in to a late medieval/renaissance period, sort of 1520 Germany. However, its a game world, with pidgeon german and lots of references to WWI/WWII persons and names, the same goes for city names and whatnots. The countries surrounding the Empire are in different stages of earlier periods adjecent or not to far from the 1520 setting.
They wanted to include landsknechte since they look awsome, they wanted to be in this period due to the availability of strange and wonderful machinery and inventions, wich would all yield good gaming concepts, but add a fantasy element. They could of course have gone the whole way and used Europa as is, but this way they have all the lee way they need to be able to include what ever they want. A good concept in my oppinion.

[Hammers]

Ass pointed out, paper and parchment weren't available. But carved and painted wooden boards and painted cloth or friezes  would be the very thing.