Poster Designs

Client: Self-Directed/School Projects

Below, various posters designed while I was in school.

Dracula

My typewriter gets a surprising amount of use. I used it on a bit of paper I'd soaked in tea and coffee, then baked (and burnt) it, then used it in this collage. The white stuff in a corner was stamped with a bit of lacy lingere, and the hands were cut out of the newspaper.

Footloose

This poster assignment was restrictive: Two colours, and no two different colours could touch. I still can't look at this without getting the theme song (you know, the one that plays about 3,000 times during the movie) stuck in my head.

Polish Poster Design

This poster, handpainted then photoshopped, was supposed to be a pastiche of Polish poster art, while appealing to an audience of conservative parent-types. As such, it was an exercise in compromise. One girl in my class told me that, if she found the poster on a wall somewhere, she'd steal it for her bedroom wall, which is the highest honour when you're doing poster art.

Design Superhero

This was a self-promotional piece that I never used. We were told to turn ourselves into superheros, which is difficult when your superhero powers involve "shooting vector webs to capture bad design" and "wrestling non-standards-compliant browsers to the ground". This assignment and I kept getting into "no, you're stupid!" fights, until I'd been awake and staring at the computer for so long I was actually hallucinating, and things on my screen were moving when they ought not to have been. That's when we were done.