Seminar Posters

To support the seminar program of the Mahindra Humanities Center, I designed posters for their lectures during the academic year based on visual and textual constraints set by speakers and organizers.

Below I include a few representative samples. To see more, visit my Instagram. 

Poster for the Modernism seminar. I used punchy typography with a beautiful photo by Colin Rex to channel the idea of “end times.”

Poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. Collaboration with K. Adolph Akatsuka. We played with composition and layout to channel the tragedy and royalty in Edward II. Photo by LoboStudio Hamburg.

Alternative poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. I played with composition and layout to channel the idea of a “grammar of possibility” in Edward II. Photo by Greg Sweeney.

Poster for the Indigenous Studies seminar. I used a sunflower-like x-ray to channel a sense of dawning knowledge and a gathering of different disciplines. Photo by Marcus Castro.

Alternative poster for the Indigenous Studies seminar. Collaboration with Native American designer K. Adolph Akatsuka. We featured dreamcatchers created by him. 

Poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. I had fun with color and typography to play on the image of a Mardi Gras parade with floats of different Shakespearean plays.

Poster for the Modernism seminar. I emphasized the structure of the image with type to convey the idea of space and urban life. Photo by Brandon Wong.

Poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. I featured the beautiful image of Hamlet by Dimitri Tavadze to invoke the idea of Shakespeare, translation, and theatrical performance.

Poster for the Modernism seminar. The poster features a woman dripping in gold (to channel the idea of melting and transcendence) with the event details aimed at her heart (to signal the idea of empathy). Photo by Sharon McCutcheon.

Poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. To channel the title of the lecture and create movement, Juliet (from William Hatherell’s “O, Romeo, Romeo, Wherefore Art Thou Romeo?”) gazes upward to “莎士比亞” (“Shakespeare” in Chinese), signifying the rise of China and its influence on Shakespeare Studies.

Poster for the History of the Book seminar. I used color (the transition between green and red), movement (with the color channel offset), and layout (placing the images to resemble a double hemisphere map) to highlight the global interaction between Cervantes and Shakespeare.

Alternative poster for the American Literature and Culture seminar. I channeled the violence in the subject of the talk through the dissection of the image and use of red highlights/slashes.

Poster for the Shakespearean Studies seminar. Collaboration with K. Adolph Akatsuka. We fell in love with and based the design on the fascinatingly strange elephants by Salvador Dali (for Shakespeare’s “As You Like It”)!