DREXEL UNIVERSITY GRAPHIC DESIGN SENIOR SHOW
Drexel University
Every year, the Graphic Design Program at Drexel University celebrates the accomplishments of seniors by highlighting their exceptional design projects in a Senior Showcase. This year focuses on the Class of 2023. The showcase aims to bring the class and other community members like Drexel University Professors, Faculty, Alumni, Job Recruiters, and Friends and Family of the students together for each student’s hard work and success.

As the Art Director, my goal was to lead my team of five in establishing a cohesive branding guideline that would be reflected across multiple print and digital media like the senior booklet, website, social media, and marketing. You can view the showcase website here.

Special thanks to my Branding & Design Committee:
BRANDING & DESIGN
Jade Dinh
Ross Huang
Aviva Gordon
Victor Martinez-Torres
Nicole Nowakowski

And my fellow Chair Committee Members:
MARKETING
Evan Michel
Eric Sweeney

BOOKLET & EVENT
Bhavna Ganesan

DIGITAL SHOWCASE
Sara Balsamo

HEADSHOT PHOTOGRAPHERS
Valentina Angelkova
Henry Holien

TAGS

BRANDING
ART DIRECTION
PRINT

PHASE 1: IDEATION & SKETCHING

During the early stages of creating the show's branding, we knew that we wanted to highlight the mixture of personalities, diverse backgrounds, and distinct styles of our class. The COVID 19 pandemic also resulted in an era of separation, endless zoom meetings, and little time to collaborate with others. The remaining months of school was the time to reconnect with old friends and discover new ones.

How can we showcase these differences to which is what makes our class bold and unpredictable? And how can we emphasize the impact of the pandemic and our bond as seniors? We started with these concepts below.

PHASE 2: CREATION

Further exploring the idea of boldness and unpredictability, we found interest in playing with pixels/glitches, repetition, and the principles of alternative design standards.

PHASE 3: IMPLEMENTATION

After six weeks of developing the concept, we have finalized the branding system.

A laptop displaying the event website for the Senior Show.A laptop displaying the landing home page for the Graphic Design Senior Show for the class of 2023.
Stacks of the Senior Show booklet displaying the branding and name of the show.A group of people talking casually together in the Senior Show.BACK TO WORK