This poster explores typographic dissent through scale, orientation, and compositional confrontation. Rather than relying on conventional image-making, the design uses oversized letterforms arranged vertically to turn the title into both message and image, allowing typography itself to carry the work’s oppositional force. A secondary column of terms at the left and supporting text at the bottom establish an informational counterweight, enabling the poster to operate simultaneously as an expressive artifact and a structured communication piece.
The design strategy centers on contrast: dense, block-like letterforms are set against a textured atmospheric field, while a restrained but high-impact palette separates major content zones and reinforces hierarchy. Rotated and stacked typography creates strong directional movement and slows reading, asking the viewer to engage the subject through the poster’s formal organization. The result demonstrates how typographic form can function as a vehicle for dissent, using hierarchy, compositional tension, and modular text as a visual system of resistance.
Methods / Process Statement
Designed as a typographic dissent poster using scale contrast, vertical orientation, and modular text composition. The layout combines display typography, secondary informational text, and a limited color system to create visual hierarchy, controlled reading flow, and a confrontational rhetorical presence.
Designed as a typographic dissent poster using scale contrast, vertical orientation, and modular text composition. The layout combines display typography, secondary informational text, and a limited color system to create visual hierarchy, controlled reading flow, and a confrontational rhetorical presence.
Poster using oversized vertical typography, modular text composition, and a restrained high-contrast palette to communicate typographic dissent through hierarchy, disruption, and visual confrontation.
