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Poster Design

Diversity

Three posters for the UCLA Extension open call, built on one device: a face split down the middle, each half from a different culture.

Role
Sole designer — concept, research, vector artwork
Team
Solo
Project type
Academic project
Context
Design Project — BSc Multimedia, IPB EsACT, 2021/2022 · Response to the UCLA Extension Master Designers Series open call
Year
2022
Tags
  • Poster Design
  • Illustration
  • Vector
  • Competition
Tools
  • Adobe Illustrator
  • Adobe Photoshop

The UCLA Extension catalogue cover series was started by Paul Rand in 1990 and has since been designed by Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Eiko Ishioka and Ivan Chermayeff, among others. In 2022 the series opened a call to design students worldwide on the theme of diversity. These are the three posters I made for it.

All three run on one device. A single face, split down the vertical centre, each half carrying the dress and ornament of a different culture — so the composite is not two people side by side but one person made of both. The lineage is Giuseppe Arcimboldo, whose composite heads were part of the brief: a figure assembled from parts that stay individually recognisable while adding up to something else.

The visual system is fixed across the set. Flat vector, solid colour, no shadow or gradient, oversized eyes. The flatness is deliberate — it pushes the figures toward the mythological rather than the documentary, which is what lets unrelated traditions share one face without the image reading as a photograph of anybody real.

Student work made in response to a public open call. The UCLA Extension lockup appears as the brief required; the posters are not affiliated with or endorsed by UCLA Extension. Artwork is my own.