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Poster for "50 Short Movies About Ben Turney."
50 Short Movies About Ben Turney:
50 Short Movies About Ben Turney:
For my friend's 50th birthday, we invited his friends and family to create short movies about him. I gathered the movie clips, edited them into a feature-length film, designed the poster, and helped MC the movie premiere event at a local theater. For the poster, we used our friend's favorite photo of himself, combined with a test pattern image in the sky background. Our friend is a sound recordist for videos and films, and the test pattern reflects his creative world. The artsy type treatment and limited black-and-white palette echo his love of cinema. He loved the event, the movies, and the poster. Several attendees took home posters.
Influences:
Black and white photography
Test patterns
Poster for Duke University Scholars Program.
Duke University Scholars Program:
Duke University Scholars Program:
I met with the customer and received the list of speakers, topics, and related details for the event. The customer helpfully explained (In)dependence and how disparate fields can relate. This triggered my imagination, and I sketched out intersecting shapes and colors. The customer approved a draft sketch, and I produced the final file (which still allowed for text changes before printing). The customer and her colleagues were quite pleased and framed a copy in their office. The poster was used online and in printed format.
Influences:
Paul Klee's painting "Castle and Sun"
Venn diagrams and overlapping shapes
"Castle and Sun" painting by Paul Klee.
Movie poster for "Checklist for Death."
Checklist for Death:
Checklist for Death:
I directed and produced a short film about teens going into the woods for their first seance. The movie is scary (the characters die horribly in one possible ending) and funny (one character carries an impossible number of things in her small bag). The film was accepted into a film festival and needed a poster.
Problem: film festivals are saturated with posters, and only a powerful image will get noticed and direct viewers to your screening. The creature costumes are low-budget (made from bed sheets and papier-mâché masks) but striking. I paired a creature photo with a beautiful image of the forest taken by our cinematographer (Rebekah Hutton). I kept the two images in separate perspectives (the trees tilt above you while the creatures are flat and disappear at the bottom). This visual conflict creates an uneasy feeling, which perfectly fits the story.
At the festival, I displayed the poster next to one of our masks from the movie, and we had a good group for our screening. A lucky viewer got to take home the creature mask for herself.
Goals:
Create a striking image to stand out in a field of other movie posters
Communicate an uneasy feeling to match the story's vibe
Toika music festival poster.
Troika Music Festival:
Troika Music Festival:
I wanted to illustrate one of downtown Durham's tall buildings and use it as a centerpiece for a band flyer. Once my band was invited to a local music festival, it seemed the perfect time to use the building illustration. I selected the CCB building and created a vector illustration that was easy to recolor as I tried different color combinations. The vertical design created a perfect space to list all the bands.
Goals:
List all bands in the festival
Create a striking image to capture a viewer's eye
Celebrate the downtown Durham area, where the festival would take place
Influences:
CCB bank building in downtown Durham, NC
Georgia O'Keeffe's painting "Radiator Building—Night, New York"
Results:
The poster was very popular, and the organizer made several copies to hand out.
One of the venues proudly displayed the poster on its wall for years.
CCB bank building with original signage on top.
Painting by Georgia O'Keeffe.
Music show poster for Joe & Jo's in downtown Durham, NC.
Joe & Jo's Music Show:
Joe & Jo's Music Show:
I wanted to do a rock show poster as a Lego instruction sheet, and when we got a gig in the downtown area with lots of buildings, everything snapped into place. I took photos of the site, built a replica of the street area, and peopled it with minifigs. I even included distinctive band photos. The hardest part was negotiation with my young kids to share the Lego and not mess up my model until I photographed it.
Goals:
Create a fun feeling to attract interest in the show
Celebrate the downtown Durham area
Results:
The venue owners loved the poster. They framed a copy and displayed it in their bar.
Honorable Mention for poster design at the 2007 NC AIGA Biennial Juried Show
Instructions for an old Lego model kit.
Joe & Jo's bar and tavern in downtown Durham, NC.
Interdisciplinarity in Practice:
Interdisciplinarity in Practice:
The event organizer sent me the list of presentations for the symposium and asked me to create a poster. I thought about the keyword in the title, interdisciplinarity, and imagined the letters of the presentations jumbling in and out of order. The image of paths mixing and un-mixing together stayed with me, and that delivered me to river deltas. Then it all clicked together. The presentation titles would flow in and out of the river paths, and the open sea below the delta would provide space for all the event details.
Goals:
Illustrate the concept of interdisciplinarity
Include all event details
Results:
The customer was pleased with the poster and made several copies to share with attendees.
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