as a student collaborator one of the first assignments was to work with stand up kc advocating for fair wages and termination of wage theft. little did i know that all this corruption was occurring in my backyard.
stand up kc; wage theft
sarajevo 100 poster process
final ink drawing before vector work
in the fall of 2013, my undergrad professor at missouri state university invited me to participate in an international poster exhibition he was organizing. titled "sarejevo 100", it is a collection of historical events from the past century of this storied city.
missouri state university visit
about eight months ago, my former professor, cedomir kostovic, emailed me with an invitation to come and lecture at my alma mater, missouri state university.
typeface in progress
i’m working on a stencil font based on the type i developed for the “spread love” poster. any thoughts? suggestions?
communicating in public spaces
when, as an everyday citizen, you have something public you'd like to say, don't you think you ought to be able to say it without fear?
black panther newspaper covers
just found this website with lots of images from the black panther newspaper, designed by emory douglas.
black panther party newspapers 2 pages, 23 images
revolutionary art from emory douglas from the same site, 21 images, including douglas' "position paper #1 on revolutionary art"
aiga has a pretty interesting article on douglas here.
his dedication to his work is admirable -- 13 years designing and publishing the weekly bpp paper. i wonder how many designers are out there today with the same dedication to something outside of the insular world of graphic design culture.
gaza protest posters
wow. some pretty amazing posters about israel's attacks on gaza over on free pixels.
it's really sad that the energy of designers needs to be used to protest the free-wheeling violence of the powerful, but it must be met with some response.
[ detail of a poster by carlos latuff ]greek protest posters
a tidbit over at social design notes about the greek protests sparked by the police murder of 15 year old alex grigoropoulos. there was quite a large visual response that accompanied a huge amount of protesting in the streets.
poster by golfis
check out a collection of some posters here, and some interesting commentary about them here.
a good interview with alex's friend, who was with him when he was shot, is located here. tragically, it sounds no different from any other act of police brutality.new dyptich poster
in addition to rearing my first child, i've been busy working on this for an exhibit at eastern michigan university, called "the posters of discontent". of course i always make these things way more work than i need to.the final result:
- two 24" x 36" posters -- digital print with 1-color silkscreen
- two webpages providing additional information, thoughts, and links on the subject matter.