HAMMER POSTER
Dimensions: 24”x36”A mock exhibition poster for a made-up exhibition at the Hammer Museum designed around a chosen topic. This poster is for a exhibition featuring international artists who create art in reaction to the war trauma they have experienced. Shown here are the image and type version and the type only version.
Spring 2017
PROCESS
1. Curating a Show
I strongly believe in the socio-political impact that graphic design can have, so I wanted to curate a show around a relevant political topic. While searching for art pieces to put in my show, I discovered work by many different artists that showed how war affected them emotionally, mentally and physically, leading to me to choose the topic of war in art and design. I created the title, “COLLATERAL”, to represent these artists and the damage that war has had on their lives.
2. Thumbnail Sketch
After deciding on my topic, I worked on several sketches that could represent my idea. Shown above is the final thumbnail that I chose, which represented my topic through a collage of different war imagery. I didn’t want this poster to only represent on specific war, so there is a combination of historical and contemporary battles.
3. Make, Make, Make.
I chose to create spray transfers as my main medium for this poster because it creates a grainy texture that I thought well-represented the aesthetic of war. It also was a sort of “chance process” medium that would cut off certain parts of images depending on how you sprayed or brayered the image which I thought would create opportunities to create a better collage. I also did hand drawings to represent the artist and how they are graphically representing war and hand-drawn typography to represent protest signs against war.
4. Revisions
After creating elements came composition. I made what felt like a hundred different variations of this poster, playing with where the elements would sit and how I could create legible typography over the very textured and detailed image.
5. Type Version
The type only poster had a similar process of spray transfers and hand-drawn type, only this time instead of direct photographs, I used type as image through spray transfers of newspaper articles talking about war. I hand-drew quotes from anti-war protests to represent the images of anti-war protests in the image poster. These were collaged together with a similar color wave as the image poster and tied together with the same map elements in the background.