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Text Image Interplay 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.

This interface concept uses bright color, playful forms, and oversized typography to intentionally create the visual appeal associated with sweets and snack advertising. By pairing an enticing image with a cautionary message, the design creates tension between desire and restraint. The strong contrast, energetic composition, and clear visual hierarchy effectively support the message while demonstrating an understanding of contemporary digital interface design.

404 Webpage Animation

Create a list of topics and mistakes, goofs, missteps, and error about those topics. Select one to develop a text and image interplay that communicates an error in the context of a webpage. Then design the motion for when the webpage loads.

Exhibition poster titled “Delivered with Style” featuring a mid-century mailbox on an orange geometric background with large layered typography and exhibition details for the Brennan Art Gallery.

InstaPoster

Select an object to be the subject of an exhibition. Write some creative titles and design a poster. Now, let’s level up. The poster is actually a grid of smaller images in an interactive experience, sort of like you might find on Instagram. Design several branching sequences, that start from the individual segments, and reveal additional information about the exhibition.

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.

Concert poster for “Fanciful Metal” featuring a tattooed white horse with a unicorn horn breathing fire against a textured metal background, with orange typography listing the date, venue, and band names.

Motion Music Poster

If it’s too loud, you’re too old. That statement has no relevance in this project. Design an environmental motion poster without sound that communicates a genre of music while delivering information about a music event. 🤘

The project satirizes processed food culture through elegant typography and premium food packaging conventions. The restrained palette, symmetrical compositions, and refined labeling system create a luxury aesthetic that directly conflicts with the subject matter. This contrast strengthens the conceptual premise while demonstrating careful attention to hierarchy, proportion, and visual consistency.

Culture Jammed Packaging

Select a product that you love to hate and culture jam it. Design a label system that creates engagement with an audience about a social concern relative to consumerism. Apply the labels to an appropriate three-dimensional form to enhance the message. Let’s jam.