RISD GD Fall 2025 Speaker Series—A subversive poster identity and print series commissioned by RISD Graphic Design faculty Ramon Tejada and Nancy Skolos to promote upcoming events.
During the late summer of 2025 I was asked by members of the Rhode Island School of Design's Graphic Design faculty to design, print, and display a series of posters to promote the upcoming Fall Speaker Series—an annual collection of events inviting industry professionals to come speak to students and members of the RISD community.
This year's slate included Andrea Trabucco-Campos, a Partner at Pentagram, Forest Young, a designer from FUNDAMENTALco, and Sophie Muscatello, a Partner at Mythology.
Software workshops, advising days, and pop up shows were also advertised. The project culminated in the posters being hung around the first floor of RISD's Design Center building, a post on the official RISD GD Instagram, and custom four-page zines advertising the events handed out to new and returning students during welcome back events.
Using RISD's risograph printer, designs were printed in four different palettes, using 8 total risograph inks like paprika, fluorescent pink, sunflower, and more. The system was designed to be cut into strips (see above) so that each design could be mixed and matched to create new combinations through play and movement (see below).
For the in person display, 9 inch by 16 inch versions of each poster were printed, split into strips, and rearranged in numerous ways around the department's main gathering space: the GD Commons. For the main poster case display in front of the building's central elevator, the strips were randomly layered and rearranged within the standard rectangular form, breaking the frame of a standard poster and inviting new ways of organizing information within a grid.
Further exploration was done with wrapping the poster strips around columns, changing their orientation, and mixing up different color palettes along walls and so on.
