Art Prints for AIGA Chicago and Unisource by Hexanine

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CLIENT

AIGA Chica­go is the local chap­ter of the larg­er nation­al asso­ci­a­tion for design, AIGA. AIGA CHI’s mis­sion is to unite, edu­cate, and advance the Chica­go design community. 

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BRIEF

To cel­e­brate the 23rd annu­al Unisource Paper Show in Chica­go, we worked along­side AIGA CHI to cre­ate a set of three art prints that would high­light the cre­ativ­i­ty of print­ing and paper, while also serv­ing as a unique mar­ket­ing piece for the chapter. 

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APPROACH

The wave­forms on the pieces are visu­al rep­re­sen­ta­tions of unique voic­es paired in unlike­ly ways, like Neil Arm­strong’s famous “one small step for man” utter­ance mashed up with Lady Gaga pro­claim­ing “let’s dance,” or Ronald Rea­gan call­ing out Gor­bachev, com­bined with the band Oasis. Print­ed on col­ored paper stocks with sev­en hits of ink, the wave­form com­bi­na­tions yield­ed beau­ti­ful pat­terns and chal­lenged audi­ences to add their own voic­es to the con­ver­sa­tion sur­round­ing design and its future. We want­ed a piece that could be frame-wor­thy and also had an inter­est­ing spin on using paper, content-wise.