I Don’t Make The Rules
Poster Design
Aug 2019
Poster Design
Aug 2019
Poster submitted to Weltformat Graphic Design Festival’s poster competition, on the theme ‘Manifesting Rules’.
“The poster takes inspiration from my attempts, when I first started teaching myself design, to wade through incredibly arcane articles and blog posts about mathematical grid systems which I struggled to understand – articles which made me think I always had to follow strict rules in order to make ‘good design’. The poster pokes fun at both those articles and my reaction to them, balancing a grid-based layout and default, sans serif typography with more playful aspects: illustrations of literal rules, and the handwritten notes of an inner critic.”
“The poster takes inspiration from my attempts, when I first started teaching myself design, to wade through incredibly arcane articles and blog posts about mathematical grid systems which I struggled to understand – articles which made me think I always had to follow strict rules in order to make ‘good design’. The poster pokes fun at both those articles and my reaction to them, balancing a grid-based layout and default, sans serif typography with more playful aspects: illustrations of literal rules, and the handwritten notes of an inner critic.”
