Category: Projects

This project was more exciting then I originally thought it would be. I had a lot of interesting ideas for things to use from the beginning, Using a version of Clarendon and Gadugi, I wanted to have a balance of serif and sans serif fonts, which I feel I achieved.

I used a poem from the Reverend Wilbert Awdry, the creator of The Railway Series, a photo that I took myself, and a piece of artwork done by my best friend Jake, I wanted to create a theme, and I feel like I achieved that.

I wanted to do more, but I wasn’t sure what else I would want / could do, maybe do more design work to the pages itself, but that was a afterthought.

For this project of doing a historical poster, I knew exactly what I wanted to do from the very beginning. Using Clarendon, a font from around the time of the latter half of the 19th century, I created a poster based upon the Union victory after the siege of Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1863 during the American Civil War.

I wanted to keep with the theme of the era, and looked any many different posters from the time. Which are quite simplistic in how they are formatted. Larger lines of text to show the most important ones and smaller ones to show the lesser important details.

I would have liked to have added more information to both the actual poster itself as well as the part explaining the font. However, wherever I looked, resources were limited. But I am very happy how the final product came out.