SILVER ADDY AWARD, 2023
The brief:
Communicate via a series of typographic communication highlighting a cause that is important to you. Display them in public areas.
To prepare, we read "Strikethrough! Typographic Messages of Protest". The book explores ways dissent has been voiced through graphics for over a century.
Execution:
My aim was to reflect the urgency in the message. To accomplish this, I hand wrote, painted, and cut out many of the characters on the posters.
I photographed the hand made elements and used photoshop to create png's to add to my illustrator files. Next the posters were printed via Risiograph in a 3 color process using pink, black and blue, leaving blank spaces for the bullet box and bullet to be printed via laser printer. I opted to use "fun" bright, neon colors with childish numbers to catch the viewer's eye and as a juxtaposition to their heavy message.
Typeface:
Henderson Slab
American Typewriter Bold
Bouffant
handwriting in marker, paint, paper cut outs
Print Method:
Risiograph