Posters and flyers
Show posters, tryout flyers, club recruitment, event signage, banners, sandwich boards, anything that goes on a wall or a pole.
We do it free.
Centaurus Studio is a design agency that runs inside a classroom at Culver City High School. Our designers are students.
Our clients are teachers, coaches, club advisors, front office staff, and anybody around Culver City who needs real work made.
You pay nothing. Ever.
It’s free because it’s coursework. A real client with a real deadline is the whole lesson, and that is worth more to us than your money.
The other half of that deal:
a student is putting their name and their grade on your project.
So bring us something you actually need made.
If it gets printed, posted, projected, or worn, somebody in this room can build it. Some examples of what has actually come through the door:
Show posters, tryout flyers, club recruitment, event signage, banners, sandwich boards, anything that goes on a wall or a pole.
Concert and play programs, awards night booklets, one-sheets, parent-facing handouts that do not look like they were made in Word.
Instagram posts and stories, gym screen slides, email headers, sized correctly for each place instead of one image squashed into all of them.
A mark for a club or a program, plus the colors, type, and rules that keep it looking like itself when other people use it.
Spot illustration, comics, storyboards for a video project, icon sets, custom art for something that has no photo.
T-shirt art, a form that has confused people since 2011, a slide template your whole department can use. If you are not sure, ask. The worst outcome is a no.
The work is free. It is coursework, and having a real client with a real deadline is exactly what makes it coursework. What it actually costs you is a little time and a little patience.
Four weeks minimum, and six is better. These are students learning the software while they build your thing.
Something due Friday is not a project, it is an emergency, and we will decline it kindly.
The designer assigned to you will ask to meet in person or on a call to fill out a work order.
This is not optional and it is the single biggest predictor of whether you get what you wanted. Email alone produces the wrong thing, politely.
Tell us who has final say. If the design has to please a committee, tell us that up front so we can plan for it instead of discovering it in round four.
Dates, times, names spelled correctly, the actual text you want on it. Late copy is the number one reason design work misses a deadline, in this room and in every real studio.
Standard practice, same as any agency. More than that is possible if the scope genuinely changed, but "actually, can we see it in green" three times is how a project dies.
Print-ready PDFs at the right size with bleed, and web files at the right dimensions, delivered with a short note explaining which is which.
The work stays free whether you do or you don’t, and no invoice is ever coming.
But people ask, so here is the honest answer: the CCHS Booster Club is where money actually reaches the program instead of disappearing into a district account.
If a student made you something you loved and you want to throw something back, that is the door.
Either way, thank you for giving them a real job.
Heads up so the click is not a surprise: that link lands on the Booster Club’s Esports page. That is where our corner of their site lives. Same pocket.
Donate through the Booster ClubTakes about five minutes, right here on this page. The more specific you are about the deadline and what the thing actually has to say, the faster a designer picks it up.
Not sure whether your idea fits? Email me and ask: kiandarien@ccusd.org. I would rather talk you through a maybe than have you not ask.