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Print Projects

Album cover featuring layered pink cherry blossom shapes over a photographic garden scene with the title “Flow of Nature” arranged among the flowers.

Album Cover Design

Research a soundscape of your choosing. Create a design system of typography, color, image treatment, and graphic elements based on the essence of the soundscape. Write unique text for the artist name, album title, and song titles. Update all the extra important text credits and verbiage. Design the outer jacket with a die-cut, inner sleeve, record label, hype sticker, and a unique disc shape to be cut on the laser cutter. Put it all together in a grab-your-attention head-banging dance-the-night-away hands-on tactile vinyl record packaging.

Black-and-white magazine cover and spread featuring tattooed figures, with detailed geometric and floral tattoo designs highlighted against dark backgrounds.

Subculture Zine

There are so many fascinating people in the world. Research a sub-culture that you want to know more about, make a presentation, and…

Poster depicting several gold swords emerging from a dark landscape beneath the quotation “The weapons of darkness tell us truths.”

Macbeth Poster

Learn the rhetorical figures as possibilities for communicating messages. Read Macbeth and watch three different movie productions of the story. Work in teams to understand the meanings of the rhetorical figures and develop ideas about possible images to use for the design. Design a poster that communicates some major aspect of the story.

Circular composition in black and white text on a red background. The words of the Typographic Oath spiral inward toward a central title while curved rules guide the reader through the text.

Typographic Oath Poster

Place your left hand on The Elements of Typographic Style, raise your right hand and swear to the Typographic Oath. Then explore the rules and break the rules of typography. Let’s play with type.

The currency employs symbolic imagery associated with secret societies and religious iconography to establish a conceptual theme. Limited color palettes, large typographic elements, and geometric overlays create a clean and restrained aesthetic. The consistent placement of imagery and denomination information helps maintain cohesion across the entire series.

Bogus Banknotes

Admit it. You want to be Eric Masters, Willem Dafoe’s character from the movie To Live and Die in L.A., who’s an artist by day and a counterfeiter by night. Design a cohesive series of banknotes, both front and back, for a fictional entity. Research a topic, develop a visual language, and design. Let’s print.