Back in April, I was invited to the Art and Design building at the University of Illinois for Graphic Design Alumni Day. I collaborated with fellow alum, Ian Law (Senior Designer at Torque Design and founder of HaHa Press), and seven seniors on a one day project to produce a poster for the Chicago International Poster Biennial. This is a documentation of our process.
Our Creative Process
- Ideate: We have a team and a project, but we need a plan. All heads together, we come up with a concept and begin.
- Draw: Our concept called for hand-drawn images, so we had a sub-team dedicate their efforts to pen and paper.
- Design: Other sub-teams focussed on designing the typographic layers of the layout.
- Scan: When the drawing was done, the scanning began. Good thing we had a big scanner…time was getting short.
- Layer: Once all the drawings were digital, we began bringing all three layers of our poster together on the computer.
- Screen: The team moved from the lab to the print studio. The layers were separated and screens were created.
- Ink: Three layers meant three screens for three different inks. The team began printing.
- Dry: Letting the posters dry was the easiest part of the process. Being short on time, though, we had to speed things up with some fans.