Typographic Poster Series
Used fundamental design techniques and typographic principles to create a poster series, demonstrating unity yet offering different components that make up an exciting series. Picked one line out of six and develop direction that represents concept.
Bold, Impactful, Raw, Altering
Concept Statement
Heid E. Erdrich, Orchid Tierney, and Hussain Ahmed are all writers who create prose related to the changing social landscape of the world, along with anecdotes of human impact.
Poet Heid E. Erdrich focuses on creating work that intersects her Native American culture and contemporary work. She takes pride in her indigenous background and creates prose defending language and earthly themes sacred to her history and tradition.
Orchid Tierney, a scholar and author, focuses on writing highlighting waste, pollution, and waste management while also critiquing environmental disasters and human impact. She created a publication titled A Year of Misreading the Wildcats that thoroughly investigates deeply rooted issues that start with one strip of plastic.
Environmental literature is also a fundamental part of poet Hussain Ahmed’s approach, along with themes of war, resistance, and survival stories. Before a poet, he is an avid environmentalist himself, using his skills to create thoughtful prose that addresses environmental advocacy. His work stresses survivors and victims of war, especially in his book titled Soliloquy with the Ghosts of the Nile.
All authors share a similar thread running through their work: each finds homage in defending an integral part of the Earth and determining how these changes connect to human impact. They consider the changing themes of the world around us and challenge ideologies previously set. While they all hold aspects of their literature that are unique to their personality and/or historical backgrounds, Erdrich, Tierney, and Ahmed share similar poetic qualities. Each depicts an important part of the world and defends it through poetic analysis.
Word Play
Experimenting with type, using water and distressed paper to illustrate earthly and raw alterations. Incorporate repetition while maintaining the distressed theme. Curved prints were explored.
Research+Sketching
The title initially suggested themes of earth, space, and nature. A new meaning emerged, linking each artist to the theme of defending and saving the land, prompting questions about human impact on a changing world.
Digital Iterations
Concept Change
Iterations were not hitting the concept and driving objectives of the project. Starting over from square one allowed for different opportunity to incorporate bold repetition.
Concept Change
Colors were added to continue theme of poster series. While they were exciting and bold, they didn’t seem to fit the concept.
Final Posters
Repetition and tunnels creates a cohesive theme illustrating a changing landscape. A more cohesive color story of the primary colors were used to imply impact but also invoke a sense of rawness. The posters are bold but still highlight an original landscape becoming altered by man.
