Portfolio Category: posters

Exacto Safety Poster

A brightly colored poster pasted to a wall, with exacto blades in a block nearby. The poster reads "Check your placement. Cut the paper, not your fingertips." There is also a digitally illustrated exacto blade cutting across the poster.

When creating this project, titled ‘safer slicing’, our intention was to create an eye-catching safety reminder for design students who frequently have to use exacto blades to crop printed projects. Process: Location When we were exploring the sign’s potential location, we chose the exacto knife area of the printing room to fit both the relevancy […]

Jazz Poster

A mockup image of a large poster for a jazz concert, titled 'An Afternoon of Music'. The colors are warm and dark, largely brown, yellow, and dark purple. The background behind the poster is a soft white brick room with a window.

With this project, I was commissioned to create a poster for a client’s annual Jazz concert. It was intended to be extremely large-scale, at 36×48. Throughout the design process, the dimensions were adjusted slightly to suit evolving printing conditions. Process: Visual Mood Board I created a visual mood board to guide my design choices with […]