Festember Highlights
One poster, a dozen different phones.
A recap poster for the event and social-content industry: one season of Festember distilled into a single shareable image, built from real event photos that had nothing in common except the event.
Solo. Sourced and selected the photos, built the composite.
Key decisions
- 01Film-strip framing and sprocket holes, so casual phone photos read as memories, not screenshots.
- 02One halftone duotone treatment across every photo, which did the actual heavy lifting of making a dozen mismatched shots look like they belonged in the same poster.
- 03A large central "F" mark, the one place for the eye to land in an otherwise busy grid.
None of the source photos were shot for this. They were phone snaps from a dozen different people, in a dozen different lighting conditions, and the actual design problem was making them agree with each other: one halftone duotone treatment, one film-strip frame, one grid. The skill here isn’t generating imagery, it’s editorial: knowing which twelve photos out of two hundred tell one story, and what treatment makes them look like they always belonged together.
Most of this section is illustration built from scratch. This one’s different. The skill on display is curation, taking messy reality and color-matching it into one system, and that’s a muscle worth showing separately.
