TYPOGRAPHY PLAY II (2022)
TYPOGRAPHY PLAY III (2022)
GRAPHIC DESIGN
A selection of work
I’ve chose to showcase multiple projects I did with the University of Zurich. Each project began with research, in order to learn as much as I could about the event in question, and discovery chats, in order to understand my clients’ expectations and to create a design brief for the project.
MIGRATIONS +CONTACTS
POSTER AND PROGRAM
Migrations and Contacts was an international conference held at the University of Zurich. The design brief called for bright, colorful tones—reds, yellows and oranges. I came up with a theme to guide me: colorful contact, which informed my primary designs.
I began with several sketches of different brightly colored circles, torn neatly in half. The canal in between would represent migration, and the web of intersecting circles would symbolize contact. In the final poster design I chose a neutral background color and carried over the blue from the bottom circles as the background color of the program.
SPECULATIVE FICTION
POSTER DESIGN
Speculative fiction is a relatively new genre in modern literature, with close ties to sci fi and fantasy, and deep roots in dystopian fiction. The design brief called for cool tones and symbolic conflict.
For the poster design, I drew graphic inspiration from literature and film. George Orwell’s novel 1984 informed the visual design, with the stacked squares representing the ideals of egalitarianism gone awry. Typographical inspiration came from a promotional poster for Ex Machina (2014), a film which would be screened during the summer school.
WOMXN IN RESISTANCE
POSTER AND PROGRAM
In June 2019, several historical events for women would come to pass: the 100th anniversary of activist Rosa Luxemburg’s death and the June 14th Women's March, which was set to occur on the 30th anniversary of a monumental work stoppage by women in Zurich in the early 1990s,
In honor of these histories, members of various departments at the University of Zurich came together to organize Womxn in Resistance. In addition to being part of the organizing committee, I designed the poster and program for the event.
I was given creative freedom on this project. I collected early feedback from my peers on three different drafts, and from this feedback created my design goals: I wanted the poster to feel young, vibrant and rebellious. The main visual graphic on the poster is an image of Rosa Luxemburg in the style of David Bowie’s “Ziggy Stardust” album cover.