Printed Posters

This poster represents the four pillars of the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering, including the research, the Shared Experimental Facilities, the transfer of research knowledge to industry and other benefactors, and the educational programs that emerged from the Center. This poster was designed for a site visit from the National Science Foundation, and for visitors to the Center may learn about the organization's current activities. Photos by Felice Frankel. Diagrams by MIT faculty, redrawn and/or optimized in Photoshop.

This poster illustrated the research conducted as part of the MIT Center for Materials Science and Engineering (CMSE), later named the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center (MRSEC) of MIT (defunct in 2020), funded by the National Science Foundation. Original research images and diagrams provided by MIT faculty.

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 was 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. Images provided by Professor Scott Misture.

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. Original image provided by Professor Hui Cao. Butterfly illustration created by Gina Franzetta.

This poster advertised the Materials Science and Engineering seminar event presenting Professor Joseph Davidovits. The poster represented the research of Davidovits'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 ancient Egyptians may have employed geopolymers to construct the massive blocks that compose the ancient pyramids.

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. 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. Colombo.

In 2018, the Materials Science and Engineering Seminar Series committee opted to create 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. 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. Top row images are the property of MIT DMSE. Right image provided by Professor Jwa-Min Nam.