This year Robert Maloney’s Experimental Illustration class worked with the Arlington International Film Festival (AIFF) organizers to design a poster for the 2018 festival. Each student created a unique poster for the festival, with one student’s work selected as the winning design.

Congratulations to Rico St. Paul (BFA’19), whose poster was selected to represent the 2018 festival! Says Rico about the poster: “Yearning for spring, I approached this piece to commemorate the birthing of a new digital age. Using both traditional and digital materials, from micron pen to found branches to Photoshop blending modes, intended to communicate a directed unison of these methods of creation, both in the future of illustration and cinematic age.” 

 

AIFF even taped an interview with Rico about the winning poster!

The additional designs created for the poster can be seen in the slideshow below: