Poster Series Research

Three events for a fictional arts festival

Empire Arts Festival

1. City State of Mind

Artist: Jay Z

Poster Content Research

Poster 1:

• Title of Event: Lo and Behold: Reveries of the Connected World
• Name(s) of artist(s): Werner Herzog
• Paragraph about artist(s): “a fascinating exploration that is by turns flippant, philosophical, funny…

Poster Series Content

My event will be called “The Pittsburgh Spirit.”

1. Pittsburgh Winery’s Tim Gaber

“Pittsburgh Winery uses a traditional, minimalist approach to winemaking that has been handed down for generations and has evolved with continuous education…

Poster Series Research + Content

For this project I was torn between picking a cool festival versus something I knew I would be inspired to design for. Currently I am deciding between creating a poster series for a random AnimalPalooza event — an Animal Benefit and Music Festival and Made in America…

Poster Series Content

Name of the Arts Festival: A Throwback to 2008 Boy Bands

Artists:

3OH!3:

3Oh!3 are a duo from Boulder, Colorado (i.e., area code 303), whose style of music includes jokey raps, indie electronica beats, and lots of…

Grid Exercise

For this exercise, I brought in an old Seventeen magazine I found lying around my dorm.

I chose this spread because I thought it had a nice combination of a column grid on the right and the hierarchical grid (or even possibly modular grid?) on the left.

Grid Exercise

For this exercise I chose a spread from Sip Magazine and “traced” the grid the best I could without tracing paper and a ruler, so I’ve included a photo of the actual spread below. The spread comes at the end of the article so it includes a lot of elements. On the left, the article text spans one full…

Magazine Grid

Content for posters

I am making a series of posters for an indie festival hosted on campus. There are three headline artists: Hozier, The Lumineers and Ben Howard.

The Title of the Event/ Name of the Festival: Petrichor Music Festival

Poster Information

SPRING CARNIVAL: April 20–22

Buggy Final Races
Artist: CMU Buggy
April 22, 9am
Frew St, Buggy track
Admission free, no ticket required
CMU Buggy is an annual race held during CMU Carnival. The race is a high-stakes, high speed, and high energy affair…

Grid Exercise

Grid Project

Project 4 Contents

Morphing Characters: Symbol of Civilization Evolution

Chinese Calligraphy Show

Chinese characters first appeared more than 5000 years ago, and since then writers have constantly developing its poses, know as…

Grid Exercise

Trace the grid of a magazine spread

I chose a spread about virtual reality from the Make magazine. I thought this spread had a very clear grid structure and it was interesting that they chose to make the background a grid as well.

Grid Exercise