Our bread and butter here at the Iconfactory may be icon and UI design, but we love any kind of project where we can put pencil to paper (or to pixels, as the case may be). Creating original wallpapers for Wallaroo and our Patreon is one way we get to free ourselves from the usual UI-shaped box.
Another is through projects like the one sent our way by James Dempsey.
Every year since 2012 James Dempsey and the Breakpoints put on a benefit concert the week of Apple’s WWDC. For this year’s concert, James asked if we would create a poster for the show in the style of a vintage WPA National Park poster, to be used for promotion of all types, both in digital and physically printed formats.
I love National Parks posters, and have several of them framed in my office, so I was excited about this project right from the start. James had a rough sketch and a lot of great ideas for the direction of the poster, and together we were able to bring it to life, starting with a more refined sketch and working our way to a finished piece with lots of fun details.
You can see my initial sketch and the finished poster below. Be sure to check out the concert website at https://livenearwwdc.com/. And if you need anything drawn or designed for your project – icons, banners, posters, or whatever – let us know!
