SHM GRAPHIC DESIGN
graphic design
[ July 2021 to May 2022: Graphic Designer on Cabinet ]
Shrunkenheadman Posters
35+ posters over a span of 10 months. Approximately one poster a week. There's this culture in the Shrunkenheadman club of stealing posters off the art building walls AFTER the event ends so I had to make sure the people had cool posters to steal >:)
SHMCON Artist Alley
The BIGGEST Shrunkenheadman event of the year with thousands of people buying art from students and alumni.
I created a custom title font and a mascot named "Gobby" for the magical woods theme.
I also created the volunteer badge below for all the student helpers.
Gobby Stickers & Assets
I created 4 sticker designs which were given to all attendees at the con. I also created little gobby assets that were used by artists on Instagram posts. The gobby assets also made for fun emotes on the official SHM discord.
Lanyard
The graphic designer could make one tee and one other random merch item. I decided on a lanyard. The imagery refers to the different foundational classes, the warm soda and cold pizza served at all events, and the club logo.
I wanted the design to have a very sk8er boi energy.
T-SHIRT RESEARCH
For the tee, I wanted to create a design that reflected the SHM culture of that year and the biggest trend was students aligning themselves with either rats or roaches. Rat Gang Represent.
Students were also sleep-deprived all the time and there was this popular cat image that you would often find on student zoom profile pictures.
Hence, the blanket wrapped anime roach girl with rats on her shoulders.
In preparation for designing the tee, I visited my local Hot Topic and several online anime merch stores. I then categorized all the T-shirts I liked on a UWU-GOTH-HORROR spectrum.
THE RAT ROACH TEE
Here's the final design and all the iterations that led up to it!
And here's my dear friend and Shrunkenheadman secretary, Rie, or as we like to say - Secreta-RIE, absolutely SLAYING this Tee.