For my Duratrans poster for the Hide Self View exhibition I wanted to display thesis work in a new way that would work well in the form of a large scale, backlit poster.
After going through a few iterations, I came up with the idea of displaying cut-out images of objects I have made and placing them on a gradient background. The colors chosen for the gradient came from the images of the work, allowing the background to be harmonious with the images on top.
The objects I included on this poster are: the poster I made with the Analog Poster Generator, a pile of tiles from the Analog Poster Generator, one of my Book Cubes, my Overwhelm book, my Tiny Library, one of the watercolor paintings from the Olick Family Photo Album, a page from Wait. What Was That Supposed to Say?, and a spread from my Tiny Purple Book.
I also wanted to include the typeface I have been working on for the past three semesters in my poster, so I used the letters I have made as a background texture on top of the gradient
Process
![The first version of my Duratrans poster for Hide Self View included many of the same elements that ended up in the final poster, but I couldn’t seem to arrange them in a way that I liked.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/8fb12566-1f01-424d-9f6d-6488fa3be556/c8dd2d37-7353-43bd-934b-5d0c839317f9_rw_3840.png?h=dca35bda6fef0a09a2dbb2dcc3d54f12)
The first version of my Duratrans poster for Hide Self View included many of the same elements that ended up in the final poster, but I couldn’t seem to arrange them in a way that I liked.
![The second version of my poster took on a grid-based form with a very subtle use of a gradient on the outlines.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/8fb12566-1f01-424d-9f6d-6488fa3be556/4da72e36-118e-493c-bfdb-b0485528aad5_rw_3840.png?h=41287ec04dd49fe7ccd267c62261875c)
The second version of my poster took on a grid-based form with a very subtle use of a gradient on the outlines.
![The third version used my poster from the Analog Poster Generator as a base.](https://cdn.myportfolio.com/8fb12566-1f01-424d-9f6d-6488fa3be556/9ad0f5c3-73ba-49e3-8842-aef5c0ceed56_rw_3840.png?h=610859d0700fae26c9ccd7bca50cd387)
The third version used my poster from the Analog Poster Generator as a base.
Final Poster