I don't get to say this often, but this is one of the projects that makes me genuinely proud of my academic work.

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This was our REDAY 2022 exhibition, created for my LCS440 class, Arts and Entertainment: Issues in Arts Administration. My group came together about halfway through the semester, chosen as the only students who wanted to build an exhibition around an original topic. What we landed on was the intersection of art and business.

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The poster on the left is the one I designed as the main image for the exhibition, and there's a deliberate idea behind it. The background colors and the font are solid, heavy, almost dull on purpose. But they're also strong and masculine, chosen to represent the world of business. Going to a business school, these were the colors I saw every single day, so when the chance came to actually use them, I couldn't resist.

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Of course, dull colors alone don't make good marketing. To give the poster some pop, I brought in Andy Warhol's Marilyn Diptych, his silkscreen paintings of Marilyn Monroe. That choice did double duty. It broke up the heaviness, and it tied directly to one of the exhibition's featured sections on Andy Warhol's Converse collection.

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Each group member took a different section, and mine was the automotive industry, specifically the intersection of manga and the Japanese car scene. Digging in, I found the two were anything but strangers. Manga and cars have been crossing paths for decades. The posters below are some of the pieces I designed for the exhibition to showcase those collaborations.

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