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Future Tense
Services: Typography, Curation, Publication, Print
This project is an exhibition catalog that highlights contemporary futurism through a bold and experimental design approach. The catalog uses abstract layouts, expressive typography, and bright, eye-catching colors to create a sense of movement and energy throughout the pages. The final design spans over 50 pages and explores how futuristic ideas can be communicated in a playful yet intentional way. Along with the full catalog design, the project also includes a final presentation and a printed prototype, allowing the work to be experienced beyond the screen.
Project Overview
This project contains the works of Leta Sobierajski, Jessica Walsh, April Greiman, Olimpia Zagnoli, and Chloe Scheffe. These works all convey a common theme of contemporary futurism. Many of these artists use bold and playful color palettes. They also focus on various mediums from illustrations to installations. The use of abstract geometry simplifies concepts into a modern style that feels surreal. Many of the works shown use human elements as symbols for identity and questioning. Various of my own works also focus on identity and perception.
Challenges
These designs break boundaries and explore emotional and psychological connections. They can be seen as a voice, speaking out for others. They put a feeling or thought into a visual sensation. All of these artists use self expression to play on social culture and norms. Ideologies like feminism can be found throughout pieces, as their works are more than just a simple shape. Art is a language without words. What is to come? What can we change?
Results
The final result of this magazine project was a successful and cohesive exhibition catalog that effectively communicates the theme of contemporary futurism. It makes the viewer question what they are seeing and how it impacts them. Abstraction is the simplification of a concept, but what happens when we simplify something that is not concrete? The result is up for interpretation.
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