Category: Poster Design

Poster Design for Sounding Rome

Post author By polytekton
Post date 09/08/2017

Miriam Zach, the Charles and Mary Sukup Endowed Artist in Organ, tasked us with the design for a poster of a lecture/recital at which she presents music by Roman composers to students who plan to spend the Spring semester 2018 in the eternal city to study architecture. The event will take place on Monday, 11 September at 4:00pm in the Martha-Ellen Tye Recital Hall in the Music building at Iowa State University.

The project had a fast turnaround time, so we had to work intuitively. The only reference that came to mind was a 1953 painting by René Magritte titled Golconda (see below).

Tags magritte, Music, poster, rome

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Poster for Women Composers’ Festival

Post author By polytekton
Post date 03/09/2017

For the 21st International Festival of Women Composers which will take place in Ames, Iowa this year, we just completed the design for the main poster. It comes in two sizes, one 24 inches x 36 inches, and a smaller one (12 inches x 18 inches) that will be given to the individual performers on the day of the concerts.

This year, based on the instruments that will be featured during the performances, we used abstracted representations of a harpsichord (red), an oboe (orange), a pipe organ (yellow), a piano (green), voice (blue), trumpet (indigo), violin (violet), in order to show off the wide range (roygbiv) of the performances. Following the identity of Iowa State University, which is one of the co-sponsors this year, the fonts are limited to ITC Berkeley and Univers.

The background is a rather blurry detail of a photograph showing Helen Keller holding hands with Ann Sullivan.

Tags ames, berkeley, international festival of women composers, iowa state university, univers

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Design for ISU Rome Show

Post author By polytekton
Post date 05/02/2016

Designs of the poster announcing the end-of-semester Rome show of architecture and landscape architecture student work at our facilities in the Palazzo Cenci in Rome. And as part of this design you all are invited to the show opening tonight, Monday, 2 May 2016. Address and times are on the poster. Final poster above, earlier versions below.

Client: Iowa State University College of Design Rome Program, Rome, Italy

Tags architecture, final rome show, fourth year program, iowa state university, landscape architecture, rome program palazzo cenci, student work

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Poster Design for Roma Tre and ISU Workshop

Post author By polytekton
Post date 02/24/2016

Here are the different draft versions and the final design (above) for a poster to announce the intercollegial workshop between Roma Tre University and Iowa State University in Rome as part of the WallWalk project this coming March. The progression is quite clear.

Tags isu, roma tre, rome, wall walk, workshop

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Final Poster for 20th Festival of Women Composers

Post author By polytekton
Post date 02/20/2016

Here’s the final version of the poster I designed for the 20th Festival of Women Composers. The client didn’t quite like the purple, so that went the way of the dodo. Also, the Valois tapestry was hard to decypher, even at the 24″ x 36″ size. Rescaling the image (showing only a detail) and using the original colors worked wonders. For the remaining text, logos, and the bird I used color swatches pulled from the Valois tapestry. The client was impressed;–)

Tags festival of women composers, medici, non-profit, pro bono, valois tapestry

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Poster Design for Festival of Women Composers

Post author By polytekton
Post date 02/17/2016

Here are three versions for posters I designed as a pro bono effort for the Margaret Zach International Library of Women Composers which organizes the annual International Festival of Women Composers. This is the 20th anniversary, so we played up that number in the poster, and given the emphasis on women we used purple for the initial draft. As an alternative we borrowed colors from the Valois tapestry (lower left corner), which the festival’s founder and creative director Dr. Miriam Zach wanted to include, since some of the music references the Medici Court. Draft No. 3 is a variation on No. 2. The bird in the ‘0/female’ sign comes directly from the Woodstock poster, in commemoration of the power of music to bring people together.

Client: Margaret Zach International Library of Women Composers, Gainesville, Florida

Tags annual, festival of women composers, pro bono

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First Draft of DoA Lecture Poster

Post author By polytekton
Post date 09/16/2015
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The Department of Architecture’s Lecture Series topic for the Fall 2015 is Architecture Off-Center. As an illustration I decided to use an image from U.S. Patent 5,505,221 which describes the design of an off-center umbrella.

Client: Iowa State University College of Design Department of Architecture

Tags architecture department, isu

Poster Design

New Lecture Poster

Post author By polytekton
Post date 02/03/2015

Here’s the final lecture poster for the Spring Semester Lecture Series in the Iowa State University Department of Architecture. Think primavera…

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DoA Lecture Poster Fall 2014

Post author By polytekton
Post date 09/19/2014

Here is the lecture poster for the Fall 2014 AAC (Architecture Advisory Council) Lecture Series for the Department of Architecture at Iowa State University that I designed recently.