EMILY CRAIG

SHAKING THE TREE

Shaking the Tree Theatre melds the boundaries of theatre and visual art by presenting audiences with unconventional theatrical experiences in their non-traditional warehouse space.

I am the theatre’s graphic designer, and I create print and digital promotional assets that are captivating and represent the experimental plays. I combine typography, texture and color to convey a story.

Identity
Layout
Print Design
Typography

SHOW & TELL: PSU GRAPHIC DESIGN LECTURE SERIES

Show & Tell is Portland State Graphic Design’s weekly lecture series. We bring in designers, illustrators, art directors, any creatives you can think of! They share their wisdom with you over lunch.

I was the designer for the series’ promotional material from Winter 2023 through Spring of 2023. I created a cohesive series identity while conveying the individual personality of each speaker. I had an experimental approach and combined analog with digital by using a scanner. I scanned materials like clay, vellum and even wood letters.

Identity
Typography
Print
Illustration

BOOK COVER RE-DESIGN

An on-going passion project where I re-design covers of books (dream job is doing this full-time)! While you technically shouldn’t judge a book by it’s cover, I do think that it’s where the story starts.

Typography
Book Design
Layout
Illustration

DISTURBANCE: A DAVID LYNCH FILM FESTIVAL

Disturbance is a speculative David Lynch film festival. The hand-done lettering is based off of David Lynch’s own handwrting. His quote “Color to me is too real. It’s limiting,” inpsired the simple color palette of black and white. I experimented with vellum to convey the blurry and confusing feelings his films often evoke.

Print Design
Layout
Typography
Identity / Branding

CONSUME, ISSUE NO. 1

Consume is a zine that explores how hormones and societal structures affect those assigned female at birth. It was my senior thesis, and I worked on this for about 6 months total. Three months consisted of primary and secondary research.

In the end, I wanted to see if, through typography, image treament and layout, I could convey the really big feelings from people in my primary research.

Print Design
Research
Layout

FLICK

A personal project from someone who has watched too many movies, flick is a speculative film magazine. Through this I found solace in articles and other people discussing on forums about how they feel: movies are kind of bad now and the 90’s (specifcally ‘99) was the best decade for them.

I utilized negative space and a simple, almost mechanical aesthetic to match the melancholy nature of the content of the articles.

Print Design
Layout

OBJECTS OF DESIRE

Objects of Desire is a hypothetical brochure made for the April-October 2022 exhibitions at the Design Museum in London.

In this brochure, the exhibit, Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924, was highlighted. Through type and image treatment, the brochure pushes the vistor and reader to discover the whimsical and dreamlike relationship between surrealism and design.

Print Design
Layour
Typography

PSU ART + SOCIAL PRACTICE CONVERSATIONS SERIES

TECHNICAL SKILL

A series of social pratice graduate publications detailing conversations that were collected over a three-year span. The team I worked with spent 9 months creating these templates to be used by future Art + Social Pratice students.

I joined the team during the last 3 months. I worked closely with the art director, Brice Spreadbury, typesetting the books and covers.

ART DIRECTOR + LEAD DESIGNER + PROJECT MANAGER + CRAFT:
Brice Spreadbury

OTHER DESIGNERS:
Freya Kargard, Edwin Lew-Hojbak,
Lindsey Walker, and Lindsey Januszewski

Typesetting
Book Design

ENGRAM: A JOURNAL OF ART HISTORY STUDENT WRITING

TECHNICAL SKILL

Engram is an art history journal written and edited by students. This is volume 2 in the annual book series.

Volume 2 features seven articles, five of which feature women overlooked in most art history books. The book is designed to highlight and celebrate women in fine art. I worked closely with the art director, Sarah Bounds, and helped determine page layout. I also typeset the book.

ART DIRECTION + PROJECT MANAGER + PRINT PRODUCTION:
Sarah Bounds

OTHER DESIGNER:
Tatum Miller

Typesetting
Layout
Book Design