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Poster Design 2025
Through Shifting Seasons was designed for a fictional multimedia performance at the Brooklyn Academy of Music — a reimagining of Vivaldi's Four Seasons through dance, electronic sound, and cross-cultural percussion. The brief called for a design that could hold the performance's hybrid sensibility: classical structure meeting contemporary experimentation.
The composition is anchored by a system of circles, hand-built in InDesign, that repeat and overlap at varying scales and opacities.
Rather than illustrating the seasons literally, they function as a structural metaphor for cycles, drift, and recurrence.
Texture layers built through blending mode experimentations give the background a material quality that references both geological time and sound.
Texture layers built through blending mode experimentations give the background a material quality that references both geological time and sound.
The poster uses four typefaces: Greycliff CF, and Masqualero, Masqualero Stencil, and Masqualero Groove.
Greycliff CF handles the informational hierarchy like dates, venue details, and descriptive copy, keeping those elements legible and grounded.
The Masqualero family carries the title and primary display text, with the stencil and groove cuts adding variation that echoes the performance's layered, cross-cultural texture.
The title runs vertically across three columns, broken deliberately to mirror the visual and conceptual theme of shifting.
Greycliff CF handles the informational hierarchy like dates, venue details, and descriptive copy, keeping those elements legible and grounded.
The Masqualero family carries the title and primary display text, with the stencil and groove cuts adding variation that echoes the performance's layered, cross-cultural texture.
The title runs vertically across three columns, broken deliberately to mirror the visual and conceptual theme of shifting.
The palette was determined through experimentation rather than a predetermined system. Six alternatives were explored before landing on the final version.
Early directions were either too restrained, like cream and sage or blush and dusty green, or too unbalanced, with one color dominating the others. A pink, teal, and gold version came closest but felt unresolved.
The final palette works because it has the widest tonal range of all the alternatives. The hot pink and deep teal create real contrast, the lavender bridges them, and the forest green adds weight without going dark.
Together they feel like they're pulling in different directions but held in place, which is exactly right for a performance built on convergence.
Early directions were either too restrained, like cream and sage or blush and dusty green, or too unbalanced, with one color dominating the others. A pink, teal, and gold version came closest but felt unresolved.
The final palette works because it has the widest tonal range of all the alternatives. The hot pink and deep teal create real contrast, the lavender bridges them, and the forest green adds weight without going dark.
Together they feel like they're pulling in different directions but held in place, which is exactly right for a performance built on convergence.