The presented research highlights the innovative charge in the poster tasks as an essential part of the educational work in fine arts. With its essence of an artistic-aesthetic phenomenon with a strong public resonance, the poster focuses on the communicative functions of graphic design. It is in its field that students can express their attitude to all current problems of the present day. Modern technologies allow quick contact with the top achievements in poster art. The digital methods for polygraphic realization allow for the expeditious circulation of the students’ poster works and their introduction in the public environment. In the space of these pictorial tasks the art pedagogue creates preconditions for the teenagers to be more empathetic, more active and creative in their striving to join noble causes. This graphic genre would transform the negative impulses of society into a creative effort, which forms the self-confidence of students that from an object of multifaceted aggressive social influences they become a subject with an active position. The idea is that poster tasks are a reliable means of overcoming the inertia of layered methodological stereotypes.