The Moment of Collapse
Film Festival

Objective

Create a film festival for a chosen movie director. Extract a theme that ties together all of the director’s selected films and create a cohesive visual system through a variety materials.

Concept

Showcase Japanese film director, Akira Kurosawa’s most idiosyncratic movies, including Ikiru (1952), Seven Samurai (1954), Throne of Blood (1957), The Bad Sleep Well (1960), Yojimbo (1961). The visual execution is based on the director’s quirky and personal take onlife and his constant theme: evil overwhelms the good in human nature, leading to defeatand hopelessness.

Objective

Create a film festival for a chosen movie director. Extract a theme that ties together all of the director’s selected films and create a cohesive visual system through a variety materials.

Concept

Experimental Poster

Bedlam: Emotional Overwhelm

[Objective]

Create an experimental typography poster which explores existing modern typographical ideas and techniques in experimental ways. Investigate the communication of content and the emotional qualities of the poster.