The Mütter Museum is a collection of odd medical paraphernalia in Philadelphia. In this student project, I explored rebranding the institution, taking inspiration from a conjoined skull they have in their collection.
Art Direction: Dave Seniors
This publication is for publishers, by publishers. This issue covers the best in books featuring in-depth reviews and an editorial on the interesting things found in the pages of books throughout the years.
Art Direction: Jason Kernovitch
Dimensions: 10″ x 18″
The No Depression Music Festival is an event that features many folk and mountain country musicians. These musicians typically use string instruments like acoustic guitars and banjos. The idea behind the poster is that through these musicians’ music, hope can be inspired in troubled minds. This is illustrated through the neck of the banjo growing into a life-filled tree.
Art Direction: Jason Kernovitch
Dimensions: 10″ x 18″
Mammal is a fictional humanities organization that organizes exhibits about the human condition. For this branding exercise, I first created a basic identity for Mammal, then specialized it for their latest exhibit Apocalypse When?, a study on humans and their historical obsession of the end times. View more design work I did for Apocalypse When? here.
Art Direction: Dermot Mac Cormack
Apocalypse When? is an exhibit produced by the fictional organization, Mammal. It explores the history of mankind’s predictions of the end times, and how they impacted society. These posters advertising the exhibition represent the main 3 categories of the apocalypse dates: Apocalypse of the Ancients, Apocalypse by the Book and Apocalypse 2.0.
Art Direction: Dermot Mac Cormack
Dimensions: 10″ x 18″
Apocalypse When? is an exhibit that explores the history of mankind’s predictions of the end times, and how they impacted society. This catalog, referencing the layout of a calendar, collects information from the exhibit. It includes a timeline of many dates when the world was predicted to end, and 3 chapters exploring specific dates predicted.
Art Direction: Dermot Mac Cormack
Dimensions: 9″ x 9″
Apocalypse When? is an exhibit that explores the history of mankind’s predictions of the end times, and how they impacted society. This app is a companion to the catalog, covering similar information and expanding on more of the predicted doomsday dates.
Art Direction: Dermot Mac Cormack
These two posters were created to raise the awareness of domestic violence, and how it affects children.
Art Direction: David Noyes
Dimensions: 16″ x 20″
The GAID (Graphic And Interactive Design) Program at Tyler School of Art often features banners designed by students to mark its territory in the vast school building. My design of the “Designer’s Swiss Army Knife” speaks to the multi-tasking I found myself doing after beginning my design career at Tyler. The knife features essential tools of any design student’s trade: a Sharpie marker for sketching out ideas, a USB flash drive to tranfer files to print, an X-Acto blade for cutting out print pieces, and a corkscrew to relax after spending all week repeating the process. After the design was finalized, the department had the banners printed onto large canvas paper so that the can hang proudly for years to come.
Art Direction: Kelly Holohan
Dimensions: 2′ x 8′
This series of full-page magazine ads were created for City Harvest, an organization dedicated to bringing healthy food choices to underprivileged areas in the city of Philadelphia. The ads’ tagline, “Healthy Eating is Beautiful”, emphasizes that a healthy diet should be prized like fine art, and made available to the public.
Art Direction: Alice Drueding
Dimensions: 9″ x 12″
This series of book covers matches the diverse range of poetry topics in the Everyman’s Library Pocket Poetry series by using magnetic poetry words as a motif to reflect the subject matter.
Art Direction: Jason Kernovich
Dimensions: 4.5″ x 6.5″
This series of maps was inspired both by my semester in Italy, and the book Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino. I used found photography as well as my own from my travels to illustrate a map based on the passage written about each fictional city.
Art Direction: Alice Drueding
The challenge of this project was to create a series of book covers that could make three unique subject matters stylistically feel at home together on the bookshelf. I chose to approach the problem by picking out two identifying symbols of each subject and create a kaleidoscopic image, tying the three covers together with similar color palettes.
Art Direction: Jason Kernovitch
Dimensions: 8.5″ x 5.5″
This website was designed for the fictional exhibit at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame titled “Grunge: The Music of the 90s.” It provides information about the event, and the five artists the exhibit covers – Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, Pearl Jam and Sound Garden. The site takes its aesthetics from flyers and other promotional material of the 90s, and uses html, css and javascript.
Art Direction: Keith Somers
This series of cards act as “anti-valentines.” Each features an illustration of children on the front, paired with a quote inside on the trials of being in a relationship that is not working out.
Art Direction: Alice Drueding
Dimensions: 4.5″ x 6.25″
“Off the Leash: The Work of Melinda Beck” is a catalog of artwork by Melinda Beck. After being supplied with the words and images, it was my job to design the book’s layout and typography. I used cues from Beck’s artwork to create motifs for various quotes, drop caps and page numbers. By doing this, the reader gets the sense of Beck’s artwork style and attitude without having to read a single word.
Art Direction: Kelly Holohan
Dimensions: 9″ x 7″
The Ig Nobel Prizes award scientific research that makes people laugh, then makes them think. In this student project, I designed a rebranding, as well as the catalog below of some of their most notorious winners.
Art Direction: Dermot MacCormack
In this catalog, I explore some of the past winners of the Ig Nobel Prizes featuring images, and my own illustrated charts. With the subject matter being fun, I chose a colorful palette to represent the different categories of the Ig Nobel Prizes. The final printed piece was spiral-bound and featured 19 spreads.
Art Direction: Dermot MacCormack
Dimensions: 10.75″ x 9″
