Queen: Typographic Poster Series
Together with two fellow designers and close friends we designed this poster series as part of a typographic poster workshop with Swiss designer Felix Pfäffli. We all agreed on the British rock band Queen as our subject matter. The challenge was to co-design something in a way where we all have equal say in the creative process. We came up with the ingenious plan of adopting the Dada approach based on chance, accidents and randomness. We were inspired by the “exquisite corpse”, a method by which a visual is created by each collaborator adding to the composition in sequence. Seeing as we were three designers, we divided the letters forming Queen into three groups and were each respectively assigned one of them on a rotating schedule. We experimented with various media and colored papers, all the while listening to their iconic songs. We then started assembling the resulting cutouts into visually pleasing compositions. This was one of the most fun-filled and successful collaborations I have ever been a part of.
