Poster & Book Design
Personal Passion Project | August 2024
Throughout my unforgettable journey this year traveling to multiple cities in Japan, I was excited to finally book our second trip to the land of the rising sun, known as Japan. Inspired by my husband and I’s next travel adventure we have planned, I knew I wanted to design a poster that evoked the feeling and experience that reflects the vibrant culture of Tokyo.
During my travels, I found a lot of inspiration and personal reflection on my own interests and values when visiting the famous districts of Akihabara and Ikebukuro which inspired me to create this poster. I primarily showcase this in the use of 8-bit pixel art-inspired typography and the cyberpunk bubble gum pop color palette.
Yet, as I was working through variations in the design, just from my visual research in my travels in Kyoto, I wanted to ensure the design also reflected the ancient beauty of Kyoto and the serenity and minimalist aesthetic that traditional Japanese art and architecture is widely known for.
I was able to incorporate that natural and traditional feeling by playing with minimal elements on the page and creating simple shapes to depict Mt Fuji and the rising sun. I then incorporated the use of natural scanned-in paper textures to evoke a sense of nature while focusing on a minimalist layout and balancing the typography and the elements on the page.
Travel Guide Book
Designing a City by City Travel Destination Book
A brief look into the layout of the book I am designing for our next trip to Japan in February 2024. Inspired by how efficient and useful our last tour guide’s travel book was, we are wanting to keep this trip a bit more focused on exploration and less on planning exact details for our day-to-day. To get our creativity fueled each day, I decided to develop a physical printed book that is small enough to carry with us in our backpack but large and legible enough to have details on interesting places we shall explore on our second trip to Japan.
