Portland Zine Symposium

Poster design incorporating original illustration

This was my first poster design, submitted as an entry for the contest of this annual local event for self-published media. I wanted to create a clean and bold design that would stand out posted around town but still included an element of handmade. The theme for that year's event was “Building Bridges,” and my design features one of Portland’s bridges as inspiration for a striking representation of connections. The roughly rendered illustration is placed among the type set as if cut and pasted into place. Each year the chosen design is adapted onto the website, t-shirts, and other items and while I didn’t have the opportunity design the full series (earning “runner-up” status), the elements of the illustration, colors, and type would have been carried out nicely to a variety of usages.

December 2005