Graphic Design

This poster is the first piece in my “Love Letter(s) to Roboto” series. The project began with a simple question: How can I express movement using a typeface as calm, grounded, and structurally disciplined as Roboto? This tension between stability and motion became the core concept of the design.To push this contrast further, I experimented with color, layout, and controlled typographic distortion, intentionally disrupting legibility in certain areas. By doing so, I created a visual friction that challenges the inherent clarity of the Roboto family.

The phrase featured in the poster — “A quirky goldfish jumps beyond vivid waters, crafting complex depths” — is an original pangram I came up for the piece. I chose the goldfish as a motif because it embodies unpredictability and fluid movement, offering a direct counterpoint to Roboto’s clean, rational structure. The dynamic nature of the fish allowed me to explore expressive motion while maintaining a strong typographic focus.

• Tools: Procreate, Photoshop, Illustrator

For this poster, I aimed to create a more brutal and grotesque visual atmosphere. I chose Roboto as the primary typeface because its calm, steady, and highly structured forms create a striking contrast when paired with complex, chaotic imagery. This contrast became the foundation of the poster’s tension.

The design is part of my ongoing series “Love Letter(s) to Roboto”, where I explore how typography behaves, how fundamental design principles manifest in composition, and how I can express emotion through graphic design. The phrase “I FEEL YOU IN EVERY LETTER” served as my conceptual anchor, guiding the visual tone and the relationship between text and image.

To reinforce the sensory dimension of the piece, I introduced a subtle paper texture in the background to deepen the sense of “visual texture” and enhance the idea of “feeling.” The grid boxes—originally used for alignment—remained in the final design. Their presence creates intentional breaks across areas of high contrast, allowing the eye to rest and navigate the composition more comfortably.

• Tools: Illustrator, Photoshop

Ghost Moving Poster is a small motion experiment where the poster never quite “stabilises”. The vertical bands and distorted type create a rhythm that feels closer to a broken screen than a static print.

The task was to create a poster for one of several short films. I selected Takeshi Ito’s Ghost (1984).

• Tools: After Effects, Photoshop

This project began as a collaborative studio exercise in which we collectively designed a custom typeface. Each student was responsible for creating a specific letter, symbol, or number, contributing to a shared typographic system.

After completing the typeface, our instructor assigned each of us a sentence to work with. Using the characters we had collectively created, we were tasked with illustrating and visualizing the sentence solely through typography, exploring how form, meaning, and composition interact. We were also limited to using only a single color, and incorporating that color into the final illustration was mandatory.

• Tools: Illustrator