For one of my grad projects, I wished to investigate the subject of love, in particular its relationship to science.
Love is a universal emotion that is often easy to experience yet extremely difficult to fully comprehend and explain. It’s complexity and ability to influence and control behaviour is beyond the rationality of the human mind. Love can be felt on numerous levels, ranging from generic pleasure to interpersonal attachment such as romantic love, sexual love, familial love,...
For this project, students were asked to create a large format poster that mimicked the style of woodtype posters. We were allowed to choose any piece of text and use it as content. My choice was the famous love letter by Ludwig Van Beethoven.
The Alcuin Society is concerned with the appreciation of books and reading and works to support the excellence in book design and production. Every year the society grants an award for Canadian excellence in book design. This poster was made to advertise the event and was posted inside Emily Carr University.
