Poster Series & Illustration — 2020
Pathologie
Concept, illustration and layout.
Personal project.
The Project
A definition,
a child’s drawing.
Eight posters, eight disorders: schizophrenia, psychopathy, depression, phobia, paranoia, obsessive-compulsive disorder, hysteria, hyperactivity.
Every poster follows the same template: the name of the disorder at the top in letter-spaced caps; at the centre, a band of white paint laid on with a broad brush; inside that band, a figure drawn in a deliberately clumsy line; at the foot, the clinical definition set very small and centre-justified.
My Role
The gap is the subject: a cold, exact medical text illustrated by a drawing that looks as though the person concerned had made it. The band of paint acts as the threshold between the two registers.
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Source Research
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Series Template
03
Line Illustration
04
Painted Texture
05
Typographic Layout
Building the Identity
Black, white, and the mark of the brush.
No colour anywhere in the series. The only variation from one poster to the next is the shape of the painted band.
Palette sampled from the project’s own visuals.
The Decision
The drawing says what the definition cannot.
The Work
In detail.
Hung
Hung side by side, the posters read as plates from a single volume: it is the repetition of the template that produces the sense of a series.
Plates
The full series
In short
A series that doesn’t judge —
it places side by side.
The decision was to quote the definitions as they stand, without rewriting them, and let the image alone carry the gap between the word and the experience.
Pathologie