Annual Juried Art and Design Exhibition
Theme for the 2025 student show
TYPOGRAPHY, ADVERTISING, ILLUSTRATION
Objective
Create a potential theme and poster for the 2025
St. Louis Community College annual student art and design show.
St. Louis Community College annual student art and design show.
Process
“Outstanding works in studio arts, design and digital media created by STLCC-Meramec students during the 2024-2025 academic school year are chosen by independent jurors for this annual exhibit. Technical skills, creativity and vision across a variety of artistic formats are featured in this culminating celebration of artistic accomplishments.” - STLCC
Unifying all the departments of art and design at the St. Louis Community College is no easy task. Trying to stay away from cliches, me and my team decided to go a maximalist rout at first, but then whitling our design down to the very essence of our message - the artist being a light in a dark world, and the exhibition being a spotlight on the hard work of the art students at STLCC. The pattern used in the poster and on the additional materials grew from a bold, Michigan accent piece into a medium for conveying both a digital and handcrafted feel.
Not only did I lead a team in creating a poster for the exhibition, I was also asked to create the certificate design for the award winners. I used a pattern I originally created to make the texture on the 'student' letters of my poster.
In addition to that, I voluntarily made ribbons for the first through third place winners and best in show in both Fine and Applied Arts. The reason I made the ribbons was for the attendees to more easily identify the winners and congratulate them.
I ended up winning two of the certificates I designed; two honorary mentions in Applied Arts out of over 200 pieces in the show. The projects that won were my James and the Giant Peach poster and my custom typefaces, Ryo Extended and Dakota Condensed.
My pattern and the typefaces used in the certificate design, as well as my poster design, were used extensively throughout the exhibition in order to create a cohesive theme (below).
