The Francophonie Festival is a month-long celebration of French-speaking culture in the nation’s capital. Run by the Smithsonian Institute and more than 70 Francophone embassies and local nonprofits, Francophonie is one of the biggest festivals in the DC area. Because the Francophonie Festival has a diverse, international focus, the print design had to have a [...]
Les Lutins is a celebrated French short film festival, brought for the first time to the DC area in February 2010. It is run by the Alliance Française in cooperation with prestigious local organization, including the National Gallery of Art, Goethe-Institut, and Hillwood Museum. “Lutin” in French means “gnome” or “leprechaun”, so this theme was [...]
Postcards for Ciné Francophone, a program run by the Alliance Française de Washington, the Washington, DC branch of the world’s largest French nonprofit organization. The two postcards contain a complete schedule of films for their respective cultural seasons, complete with date, time, venue, admission cost, plot summary, language information, and image for each film. They [...]
The New Media Center at the University of Mary Washington was recently founded to provide important online instructional resources to students and instructors. It is run by the Division of Teaching and Learning Technologies, and covers subjects from video editing to social media. Because UMW has such a rich history, the logo for the New [...]
Spindle is a semiannual online journal of the arts. It weaves together seemingly unconnected works of art and literature, constructing a new and inspiring way of approaching artistic content. The journal’s purpose is to “evoke a dream-like state of creation”, so the site design had to reflect this stream-of-consciousness mindset.