This poster is a collage of 43 geese illustrations and carvings I sourced from various digital repositories including the Smithsonian, the John Hay Library, the British Library, the National Library of France, the MET, and others. I started research and digital collage work on February 22nd and risograph printed the final show posters on March 20th with studio assistance from Ivana Primero. The letterpress component was finished on April 2nd in an uncounted and unsigned edition of over 50 prints. Members of abcpvd posted them around Providence on April 7th in a poster posting challenge that proved a huge success in advertising when over 200 people showed up to our show's opening nights.
I designed this poster as both a tactile physical poster and as a legible digital design:
Process photos and an auxillary collage:
wood type on the letterpress bed
freshly printed stack, me in the background - photo taken by Areez Khan
screenshot of the digital collage in progress
auxiliary collage made during my research
2024
digital collage, risograph print, letterpress print on paper
11in x 17in
edition of >50