This poster advertised the Materials Science and Engineering seminar event presenting Professor Scott Misture. For this poster, the size of the images provided by Professor Misture were transposed: The supplemental image enlarged to highlight the striking visual for the main image, while the larger photographs were scaled down and positioned above the abstract to draw the viewer’s eye to the description of the corresponding research.

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
17 x 11 inches

This poster advertised the MIT Materials Science and Engineering seminar series event presenting Professor Hui Cao from Yale University. Professor Cao’s talk on nature’s exciting colors and iridescence warranted an ethereal depiction of nature’s most whimsical of creatures: The butterfly. The lovely insects are layered with transparency to reveal the depth, structure, and complexity that creates wondrous images we see.

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
11 x 17inches

The Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series presented Dr. Luigi Colombo. With an already extraordinary image provided by Dr. Colombo, the design challenge was to illustrate aspects of the talk without losing the main focus on the central image. Thus, the theme of the poster isolated on the theme of 2D, implementing translucent backgrounds to text angled in such a way as to suggest paper, a traditional receptacle maintaining forms from the 2D world.

Main image provided by Dr. Columbo.
Created in Illustrator and Photoshop
11 x 17 inches

This poster advertised the Materials Science and Engineering seminar event presenting Professor Joseph Davidovits. The poster represented the research of Davidovitz’s work on geopolymers, used in foundries and in the contemporary construction of airports and automobile components. Davidovits proposed that geopolymers may explain how the the ancient Egyptians may have employed geopolymers to construct the massive blocks that compose the ancient pyramids.

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop
17 x 11 inches

In 2018, the Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series committee opted to created a branded poster, altering only the main image above the talk’s abstract, the header, and the title of the talk. This design was used for at least two years until COVID when advertisements transitioned to digital displays. (See Digital Designs for the digital graphic template design.) The challenge to the template design was to create a clean layout that would read easily while remaining recognizable to the event. Per event poster, the challenge became energizing the template in concert with the profile images or research graphics provided.

Created in Illustrator.
11 x. 17 inches

It is worth noting before detailing the design process of this piece that optical effects implemented in the process of this poster do not translate to the virtual environment my gentle viewers see before you now. This design sought to capture the fundamental imagery of the internet-of-things while simultaneously spotlighting the speaker. More on the design process for this piece coming soon.

Created in Illustrator and Photoshop.
17 x 11 inches