A large part of my services include, print and editorial design. Here are a few examples of earlier projects that include posters, books, editorials, cover designs and more.
Free Wifi
Commissioned by Heather Snyder Quinn this cover for M.I.T Design Issues illustrates a geomatic earth projection as a computer circuit board. Each land mass is connected through circuitry that mirrors our network of submarine communication cables. Read more about this issue on M.I.T Press Direct.
Flight Into Egypt
The Metropolitan Museum of Art needed to design an exhibition catalogue for their show Flight Into Egypt: Black Artists and Ancient Egypt, 1876–Now. The exhibition, curated by Akili Tommasino, examines Black Artists and other contemporary figures that draw inspiration from Ancient Egypt. The catalogue’s design is driven by an irregular “fractal grid” – inspired by Audrey Bennett’s essay “Follow the Golden Ratio from Africa to the Bauhaus for a Cross-Cultural Aesthetic for Images” where Bennett challenges Fibonacci by tracing the golden ratio all the way back to Ancient Egypt.
Studio: Polymode
Credits: (Director) Brian Johnson, (Design) Edgar Casarin, Brian Johnson, Silas Munro
Cylindrical Lenses
David Kordansky Galleries needed a poster to promote a solo show for renowned sculptor and ex-NASA engineer Fred Eversley. The show titled Cylindrical Lenses featured his newest set of monolithic resin sculptures. Bare witness to the fourth-dimension by looking through Fred’s time bending, light stretching, space traveling cylinder sculptures.
Studio: Polymode
Credits: (Direction) Silas Munro (Graphic Design) Silas Munro, Edgar Casarin, Randa Hadi (Photography) Dave Kordansky Galleries.
The Quick
The Quick is the compendium monograph, and supplemental site of collaboration, to the exhibition of the same title curated by Ashley Stull Meyers featuring the artwork of Diedrick Brackens and D’Angelo Lovell Williams.
Polymode’s design process with the artists, curator, and gallery team was deeply collaborative. The book is set in a custom version of Polymode Sans, called Polymode Woven that expressed the raw and rich tradition of hand loom weaving that was a physical material in a number of works, but also served as a metaphor for the overlapping conversations and experiences of the artist and their families (chosen and biological).
Studio: Polymode
Credits: (Designers) Silas Munro, Edgar Casarin, Darian Newman, Sadeem Yacoub
