TYPOGRAPHIC POSTER SERIES

Against the Machine: Poetic Narratives of Technological Flux

Objective

To create a triadic poster series unifying three authors under one visual system through experimentation of typography and images. The series promotes a fictional poetry event highlighting a connective theme between the authors’ works, while still maintaining each of their unique perspectives.

Understanding the Poets

T.S. Eliot

20th century poet whose poetry covers identity and religious awakening in a post World War Europe. His writing critiques the isolation of humanity due to the rise of mechanical industrialism.

Andrea Abi-Karam

Transgender Arab-American poet whose work is a call to revolution, fighting technological militarism through unapologetic queer resistance and sexual freedom.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) whose work offers a written contemplative experience from its own life experience, sparking debate on the ethical consequences of self-thinking technology.

Experimental Free Play

Design at the fundamental level - communication. Exploring how to represent common themes of the all three authors using typographic manipulation through texture, perspective, etc. These compositions serve as possible concept directions for the final series.

Concept Ideation

Exploration of themes which incorporate overarching concepts of all three authors.

Final Concept

Metamorphosis

DIGITAL IDEATION

All three authors explores self-expression using technology as their conductor. Human emotion becomes blurred with industrial invention as each author questions their existential purpose in a mechanized world.

In Villainy, Abi-Karam describes a mutation that is both physical and perceptual as they begin to view themselves as a weaponized “human cyborg.”