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Joy Castro, author and professor of English and Ethnic Studies
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Graphic Design
Posters and images for digital signage
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- The Reading Series presents Roxane Gay
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- The Reading Series presents Natasha Tretheway
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- The Reading Series presents Jesmyn Ward
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- The Reading Series presents Alison Bechdel
The Reading Series
I had the honor of designing graphics for the brand new University of Nebraska Reading Series. The inaugural event featured author, cultural critic, and alumna Roxane Gay. I was familiar with Roxane and her work, and I knew her to be bold, witty, and a great lover of the color pink. Each of those characteristics is reflected in the original design, and each subsequent posters follows the same theme.
Roxane Gay photo courtesy of The Tuesday Agency
Natasha Tretheway photo courtesy of Blue Flower Arts
Jesmyn Ward photo courtesy of Simon & Schuster
Alison Bechdel photo courtesy of The Tuesday Agency
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- Poster for Morgan Jerkins reading
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- Poster for Lynne Barrett lecture
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- Poster for poetry reading featuring Crystal S Gibbons, Adrian Koesters, and Michelle Menting
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- Poster for SJ Sindu reading
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- Poster for Nick White and Devin Murphy reading
Creative Writing Month
October 2017 marked the Creative Writing Program’s biggest celebration yet. I wanted the designs to be eye-catching and modern, so I chose to use The League of Moveable Type’s Raleway font in its thinnest weight with accents in Bodoni. The layout ties everything together, but each poster stands out from the others with its own bright, monochromatic color scheme.
The month-long schedule of activities was a huge departure from our usual department activities. The titles are meant to reflect that departure, extending beyond the edges of the page and changing size and alignment from one word to the next.
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- No Name Reading Series poster with vintage microphones
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- No Name Reading Series poster with vintage phonographs
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- No Name Reading Series poster with mid-century radios
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- No Name Reading Series poster with vintage folding cameras
No Name Reading Series
No Name features the best in poetry and prose from graduate student writers in the English Department of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I designed this series of posters featuring “vintage” objects split into overlapping, slightly transparent cyan, magenta, and yellow images, reflecting the vintage aesthetic of that year’s venue. The black-backed titles are reminiscent of old school embossing label makers.
Other Designs
Over the course of the last decade, I’ve worked with faculty, students, staff, and freelance clients to design a wide variety of materials, including:
- Posters
- Invitations
- Banners and signs
- Digital signage
- Images for social media
- Lookbooks and brochures
- Online newsletters
- Bookmarks
- Business cards
- Newspaper ads
- Logos
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- Poster for SJ Sindu reading at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Digital sign with welcome in multiple languages
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- Poster for novelists panel in celebration of National Novel Writing Month
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- Digital sign image for Queer Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Digital sign image for the Walt Whitman Archive
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- Digital sign image for the Cather Project
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- Poster for Robert Gross lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Digital sign image for Ezra Greenspan’s lecture, Frederick Douglass at 200
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- Schedule of events poster with an 1920s-style illustration of a woman in a hammock
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- Poster with a silhouette of the Statue of Liberty for We the People panel event
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- Poster featuring a still from The Danish Girl film adaptation for David Ebershoff reading
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- Poster for Love, War, and Democracy American Authors to 1900 course taught by Ken Price
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- Poster with scans of book pages and pressed leaves for Book Traces library event
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- Poster with photo of Cuban street for Chantel Acevedo reading
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- Poster featuring vector illustration of Lake Oahe for Leo Yankton’s lecture at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Poster in English and Spanish with blended map and photo of Mexico for Reyna Grande reading
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- Poster for Dipika Mukherjee reading at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Poster for Poetry Week celebration at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
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- Poster for the Walt Whitman Symposium at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Department Newsletter
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- Department newsletter header and events calendar section
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- Department newsletter publications and acceptances section
Alumni Newsletter
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- Alumni Newsletter header with photo of benches and magnolia trees
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- Alumni newsletter Spotlight section with photos of Sunita Jain and Jonathan Cheng
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- Alumni newsletter featured section with graphics for African Literature course and Queer Theory course
