Celbration of Lights

Cultural Event Triptych
Feb. 2024
Role
Graphic Designer
Client
VCDE 717 Design System (Individual Project)
Year
Feb 2024
Duration
4 Weeks
Tools
Tool 1Tool 2

Celebration of Light is a cultural event triptych proposing a New York City fireworks festival across three advertising formats — subway banner, street pole banner, and billboard. Built through collage and mark-making, the series layers crayon-drawn sparks, torn-paper textures, and mosaic-tiled lettering over bokeh-lit color fields, translating the noise, warmth, and imperfection of fireworks into print.

Celebration of Light — Moodboard Sketch
Moodboard Sketch

Six rounds of iteration carried the work from three divergent moodboards — Glamorous Night Sky Affair, Urban Skyline Spectacle, and Whimsical Wonderland Fiesta — toward a single, unified voice: one hand-built typographic mark, three color stories. Whether encountered underground, at eye level, or overhead, each poster invites the viewer to look twice, embracing mess and mosaic as a celebration of light itself.

Final Output

Subway

Celebration of Light — subway poster design
Design
Celebration of Light — subway poster mockup
Mockup

Billboard

Celebration of Light — billboard design
Design
Celebration of Light — billboard mockup
Mockup

Street Pole

Celebration of Light — street pole banner design, panel 1
Design
Celebration of Light — street pole banner design, panel 2
Celebration of Light — street pole mockup
Mockup

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