— PROJECT NAME
Fire of Love
— ROLE
Art Direction
Print Design
Motion Design
— DATE
Fall 2022
— SPECS
Graphis New Talent Silver Award Adobe Illustrator
Adobe After Effects
This animated poster is a piece promoting the release of the National Geographic documentary Fire of Love. The documentary celebrates the lives and careers of Maurice and Katia Krafft, two French volcanologists who fell in love and together were dedicated to studying these equally marvellous and harsh environments.
The documentary is a compilation of Maurice and Katia’s stunning research footage, so I decided to make that footage the focal point of my poster. To add another type of movement, I overlaid circles that orbit around the footage and split into two in time with explosions in the video. The colour and type choices all work to establish a visual tone that connects to the footage and the Kraffts’ line of work.
Receiving a Silver Award in the 2023 Graphis New Talent Competition, this piece combines the foundational elements of print design with the modernity
of motion design. The subtle textures add to the dynamic quality of the poster while keeping the audience’s focus where it belongs, on Maurice and Katia.
layout sketches
sketches on a modular grid, deciding on layout
narrowing in on the final composition, beginning to think through animation aspect
sketching out possible animations with finalized grid
high fidelity sketches of the logotype, finalized grid and animated orbs