Graphic Design Across Culture

This project was assigned in my Graphic Design Intensive class. We were given a semester-long project comprised of four different sections: music, architecture, food, and costume. In each of the sections, we designed various assets from posters, menus, albums, etc. that would be combined at the end of the semester into a final book.   ​

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The first section was music, in which we were tasked to select four different designers whose work we thought best represented each genre of music: jazz, rock, rhythm and blues, and classical. Using our designers as inspiration, we created album covers for artists that we also selected for each genre. I chose Stefan Sagmeister and Turnstile for rock, Beethoven and Erik Nitsche for classical, Alvin Lustig and Louis Armstrong for jazz, and Max Huber and Aretha Franklin for rhythm and blues. 

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The second section was architecture, where we selected four architectural styles and design posters for each of them. I selected victorian, Japanese, Italian, and Indo-Islamic styles.

The third section was food, where the focus shifted from illustrative to typographic. We selected four restaurants and created new menus for each of them. 

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Finally, our last section was costume. For this section, we selected four different fashion time periods to inspire the theme and look of an invitation. The decades I chose were all based in the United States, and were the 50's, 70's, 80's, and 90's.