WEEKLY POSTER COLLECTION
Week 1
Megacorp Lumon offers its employees the ability to separate–sever–their work and personal lives in twain. No longer do you have to suffer through a job you hate, you have you to do that! Unfortunately, attempting to exploit oneself is easier said than done. Hijinks ensue. Conspiracies are uncovered. Typical work stuff. Employees must take an elevator down to the “Severance Floor,” represented by the individual moving across the poster from white to black. Employees are under constant surveillance by Lumon staff, a sentiment reflected in the water tower that hangs over all. Why does the last person look like that? Watch the show and find out!
Fonts: Helvetica
Week 2
Dans ce film de Denis– just kidding. Quebecois darling Denis Villeneuve of Arrival and Dune fame may have produced this French-language film before his later English blockbusters, but skipping out on this adventure would be a grave mistake. Villeneuve takes us on a journey across time and culture to retrace the steps of our protagonists’ recently deceased mother, whose dying wish sends them on a mission to discover the real family’s past. The truth can burn, but only through fire can one begin to start anew. One of our main characters is a math professor; the graph on the poster is of the Collatz Conjecture, a famous unsolved math problem which demands: With enough repetition, do all positive integers converge to 1?. Think that’s totally random? Chekhov's Gun. I also thought it looked like a raging fire (Incendies means “Fires” in French) so that was a bonus.
Fonts: Helvetica
Week 3
There’s no way around it: this film is just insane. And a masterpiece. What is it like to raise a psychopath? Is it your fault if your child turns out to be a psychopath if while raising them you did a really bad job of hiding the fact that you did not want them, and all attempts to connect to said child came off as forced and disingenuous? Who's to say. The important thing to remember is love comes in many, many forms. Cans of soup don't play a role in the movie except as the backdrop to one scene; I thought it would make a good poster, so here we are.
Fonts: Arial, Dreamboat Regular, AdornS Engraved, Helvetica
Week 4
Is there life after love? Cher thinks so. Our protagonist? Not so much. Eight years on from the death of his lover, George Falconer–an English professor–is ready to die. He goes about his day like it is his last. But maybe it doesn't have to be. Maybe. The use of color in this movie is incredible; this is the movie that got me into movies, and for that it will always have a special place in my heart. I drew the shapes with the pen tool, traced a frame from the movie for the eye, and used gaussian blur to get the lens flare effect.
Fonts: Neue Haas Grotesk Display Pro 95, PT Sans, Helvetica
Week 5
Stupid. Funny. Stupid funny. Archer is a show about a bunch of people (spies) who hate each other, and yet would kill for each other, literally. If that isn’t the definition of family, well, maybe it should be. The show is actually animated in Illustrator (!) so this was kind of perfect. Gradient background. Pen tool for details.
Fonts: Baveuse, Baveuse 3D, Helvetica
Week 6
Imagine finally meeting that person. The person you’ve been saving the best of yourself for. And then they have to leave the country. For two years. Ouch. I went crazy with the gaussian blur. Everything that isn’t text were shapes drawn with the pen or pencil tool blurred to various amounts. Except the shirt which has several other effects on it (feather, roughen pastels, diffuse glow). I think it was a mostly successful attempt at photorealism. Faces are hard. But I like drawing them, I’ve learned.
Fonts: Avenir, Helvetica
Fonts: Avenir, Helvetica
Week 7
Chris Evans, they can never make me hate you. Fun fact, we went to the same high school (go Warriors!). Snowpiercer may take place on a train, but it isn’t about the train. Which is a shame, because I love trains. The train is a metaphor, man. For capitalism, obviously. The only way to stop the endless cycle of suffering and exploitation is to get off the train. For this one, I spent most of my time trying to get Evans’ face right, which I believe I did, actually. Then I realized I spent 6 hours on just a face, so I image-traced the rest of the scene and that’s what most of the poster is. From top to bottom, the poster reads: “Director Bong Joon-ho's New World” / “Snowpiercer” / “Chris Evans.”
Fonts: 배달의민족 연상 (Baedal Minjok Yeonseong) OTF, Helvetica
Fonts: 배달의민족 연상 (Baedal Minjok Yeonseong) OTF, Helvetica
Week 8
A short film by Hungarian director and animator Flóra Anna Buda, 27 is about feeling trapped by circumstance, and the desire to break free and finally, finally, start living the life you’ve always wanted for yourself. Sometimes, life gets in the way of life. Our protagonist, Alice, is still living with her parents, and annoying little brother. After a night of drinking (and more) with a friend, Alice appears to have a breakthrough. Yes, I might be stuck here, but I don’t have to act like it. I can be free. Right here. Right now. I did lots of pen tool, some pencil tool for details, and, as always, gradients. The sky was image-traced. I could have done it myself, but I didn’t feel like it. I can do whatever I want, right?
Fonts: Source Code Variable, Helvetica
Week 9
The Zone of Interest was the area around Auschwitz where the Nazis lived and worked. Inspired by one of the film’s officially released posters, the hole at the flower's center has been made to represent the camp, a black void emanating darkness into everything. The title and credits surround the dark, much like how the Zone trapped its victims within the clutches of its evil. The mood is disgust. The mood is horror. The mood is shock and disbelief that lives continue to be lost to genocide even today. Red is for spilled blood, spreading for miles beyond the gates of Hell.
Pen tool, gaussian blur, path offset used.
Fonts: Abolition, Helvetica
36 DAYS OF TYPE
Inspiration
Initial Sketches
Final Set
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PERSONAL LOGO
Inspiration
Final Design
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