George Gershwin’s piece An American in Paris is inspired by his series of trips to Paris in the 1920’s to 1930’s which he recounts the bustling liveliness of the city. The music is filled with swinging movements and honking horns all of which attempt to capture the positivity and opportunity that Gershwin felt while in the city. To capture the hoppy, bustling, and complex movements of the music and the realities of Paris during the 20’s, both posters use a color palette inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s paintings filled with energy and take inspiration from art deco to inform typography choice and composition. Curvilinear lines work to capture the slower, flowing moments, which paired with the typography weaving in and out of the forms create the feeling of traversing through the bustling of the city in awe of a new landscape.

Jasper Johns is a collection of works spanning John’s career separated into decades of work based on key elements of that time span. Callout quotes, taken from an interview with John’s, are in his signature stencil font in primary colors. Johns’ works in iteration which inspired using fold outs and a large format (11x13) in order to continue series and communicate the transformations from sketch to final piece(s) while giving visual rest.

Smoke Break is a three magazine D.I.Y. Music Publication. Each issue covers a different aspect of the scene in Philadelphia each treated different to capture how diverse the scene is. A uniform masthead was too containing for the publication instead two dots and similar typography is used as the connection from issue to issue. Imagery is black and white with high contrast as well as bitmapped taking inspiration from David Carson’s Raygun. Album covers are kept in full color throughout all issues to capture the feel of the music created and align with imagery of the bands. The three issue cover slowcore, artists behind the music, and a collection of images that ask you to look and form your own opinion.