Emerging from
Darkness:
Poster Series
Poster design / Experimental typography
Spring 2023
Rabindranath Tagore, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and Toni Morrison were 3 writers that left an unmistakable social and literature impact on their respective countries. This poster series pays homage to these writers, and the ways in which their writing was able to cut through injustice and darkness.
continually shed light on the voices of the marginalized and provided light to their country.
Free Play
illustrate my concept. I tried everything from laying printed type under glass to projecting type on the wall.
Each of these writers wrote during times of darkness in their respective countries. Their writing
served as a sense of light and hope in these times, reminding their countries that a better future
was possible. I assigned one word to each writer that represented what they gave to their countries
through their writing, and used typographic freeplay with a projector to visually represent this light.
Imagery
Iterations
the darkness these writers had to combat through their writing.
Grid + Colors
poster’s grid had no rotation, the second was rotated 5 degrees, and the final was rotated 10 degrees.
Each color was slected with key aspects of the writers work or backgrounds in mind.