Design Culture Now
Cooper Hewitt’s “Design Culture Now” was an opportunity for my capstone class to make an event poster. We were given the text for the poster and were given time to come up with a creative way to express the phrase.
design elements
I chose to do a lightbulb, as that is a common image of coming up with new and bright ideas. I also decided to compose it with Instagram stickers and keep a theme related to Instagram, as I liked the combination of sharing stories through art and sharing art through the literal form of stories on the app. I used the location tag to write the title and the Instagram color scheme for the heading of the text.
reflection
This project was one of the more time consuming yet effective projects I’ve worked on. It wasn’t too difficult to find all the Instagram elements, and it looks very cohesive to what I envisioned the phrase to be. However, it allowed me to build on top of feedback, as I was struggling to come up with ways to portray the lightbulb element without it being too plain, and I believe the end product worked out very nicely.