I am currently working with the University of Richmond (Richmond, VA)
as a member of the university-wide design roster.
I designed a graphic for the 2024-2025 festival, this year’s theme being
“The Nature of Representation”
The description reads:
The Nature of Representation asks how our understandings of “nature” have been shaped by representational practices in both the aesthetic and political senses, exploring how the current climate catastrophe is inextricable from colonialism and anthropocentric worldviews. The festival features contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers who don’t take for granted that language is merely human, that there are other “natural” languages, and that attuning to those other languages allows us to tell stories that disrupt the violence of Man.
as a member of the university-wide design roster.
Tucker-Boatwright Festival of Literature & the Arts
- digital collage, poster + print designI designed a graphic for the 2024-2025 festival, this year’s theme being
“The Nature of Representation”
The description reads:
The Nature of Representation asks how our understandings of “nature” have been shaped by representational practices in both the aesthetic and political senses, exploring how the current climate catastrophe is inextricable from colonialism and anthropocentric worldviews. The festival features contemporary writers, artists, and thinkers who don’t take for granted that language is merely human, that there are other “natural” languages, and that attuning to those other languages allows us to tell stories that disrupt the violence of Man.
poster graphic
“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language, for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents.”
— Walter Benjamin, “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” (1916)
“There is no event or thing in either animate or inanimate nature that does not in some way partake of language, for it is in the nature of each one to communicate its mental contents.”
— Walter Benjamin, “On Language as Such and on the Language of Man” (1916)
main poster
(template was pre-made)
(template was pre-made)
alternate cropped poster
first sketches:
The client was looking for a design with a central motif which will also be used for stickers and other smaller prints - the tree rings/thumbprint being the final choice
round 2:
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Imagery for this project:
- nature photography
- visual data (topography, radar, models and scans)
- ancient and modern construction
- classic literature book covers
- zen gardens
- mirror “infinity room” photography
- plant cell microscope slides
- early human artifacts
- religious and spiritual symbols
round 2:
Imagery for this project:
- nature photography
- visual data (topography, radar, models and scans)
- ancient and modern construction
- classic literature book covers
- zen gardens
- mirror “infinity room” photography
- plant cell microscope slides
- early human artifacts
- religious and spiritual symbols