Typography Art
This section features two projects related to typography art: a typographic portrait of actress Lucille Ball created for a design course assignment; and a series of designs for Profiled, a documentary about racial profiling and police brutality.
Skills
Poster design
Typographic artwork
Content layout
Lucille in Helvetica
A typographic portrait of the famous actress Lucille Ball, constructed entirely out of various weights and forms of the Helvetica typeface.
Originally created for a design course assignment, the font and portrait subject chosen had to have something in common. In this case, it is the year 1957, when the groundbreaking show I Love Lucy came to an end, and the now-ubiquitous font Helvetica came into being.
Lucille in Helvetica was on gallery display in Ramapo College in Spring of 2016.
Profiled
Typographic Portrait Poster
Profiled is a 2016 documentary about racial profiling and police brutality, knitting the stories of mothers of Black and Latino youth murdered by the NYPD into a powerful indictment of racial profiling and police brutality, and placing them within a historical context of the roots of racism in the U.S.
This typographic portrait is composed of names of victims of police brutality as of 2016. I worked on this design directly with the New York-based filmmaker and director of Profiled, Kathleen Foster, designing other branding and promotional elements for the documentary such as DVD covers, screening posters, and more.
The design seen here was printed on canvas and offered as a fundraising perk for Kathleen Foster's Profiled documentary in the Summer of 2016.
Profiled
Discussion Guide
This Discussion Guide was developed as a tool for organizations, community groups, and educators who want to use Profiled to stimulate discussion and involvement of their audiences at community events and in the classroom.
Twenty-five pages in length, the Profiled Discussion Guide contains guided questions to accompany a screening of the film, excerpts from historical and contemporary readings on race and racism, and various resource materials to explore the themes raised by the film.
