Dia De Los Muertos

Broadside advertising the Day of the Dead festival Size: 11"x19" For this project, I teamed up with another student to design an awareness-creating broadside for the festival. Our aim was to use the medium of letterpress to create a distinct look. In our experiments with printing, we discovered that deliberate mis-registration caused a ghostly effect on the type especially when it is white on black or other dark colors. Darker colored papers seemed suited to the subject, besides which, letterpress makes it easy to print white on dark solids. It was fun to print on different dark colored papers and examine the impact of paper on color. The marigold, a symbol of the festival, replaced the ‘O’. A petal of the flower is falling, as if the flower is decaying.