Wayne State College asked my design class at the time to come up with some poster designs for the Fred G. Dale Planetarium and the A. Jewell Schock Museum of Natural History. The designs were to be featured on the windows flanking the entrances on the Carhart Science building. Only 6 designs total would be picked from the many designs created by the students. You can see all of the works I submitted in below.
Planetarium poster concept no. 1.
Museum poster concept no.1.
Planetarium poster concept no. 2. Notice the "Star Wars"-inspired typefaces.
Museum poster concept no. 2. Notice the "Indiana Jones"-inspired typefaces.
Planetarium poster concept no. 3.
Museum poster concept no. 3.
In the end, two of my posters were selected; the Northeast Entrance Planetarium and Museum posters. While the Northeast Entrance Planetarium design stayed the same, my Northeast Entrance Museum design was modified by my graphic design instructor under direction of the college. The only things he changed were the color of the sky and the dimensions (WSC wished to place the poster in a different window than what it was originally intended for).
My instructor, Joshua Piersanti, also used my original Northeast Entrance Museum design as a template for a wholly new poster for the planetarium. The final products, as well as pictures of the posters in their respective locations, can be seen below.
Planetarium poster no. 1.
The poster as found on the northeast entrance.
Museum poster. Notice the change of the background as created by my instructor Joshua Piersanti.
The poster as found on the southwest entrance.
Planetarium poster no. 2. Notice the bear and the stars as created by my instructor Joshua Piersanti.
The poster as found on the southwest entrance.