a small, university-club homage to magritte (and others).
One fateful spring, I was given the opportunity to be the co-President of the Visual Arts Club at the University of Waterloo. The logo design is below, using the University’s colours and font, a push towards better integrating the 50-strong club into campus fabric.
The hat and apple are a small homage to Magritte - a personal favourite - and his Son of Man, 1964, a prevailing surrealist icon. Borrowing the simple, dialectic, and universally-striking nature of his work, these objects lend the art-history-nod to its representation.
Led by students, the small club became explosively popular: it was a casual, supportive space for a STEM-dominant university student body to express themselves.
sometimes, you just wish the mona lisa was blue.
A booking fiasco meant that, besides a single, chaotic Discord chat, we were short posters advertising our new meeting room. Here they are, whipped up in a post-Mel’s-Diner (nauseous) frenzy, modelled loosely after famous, dead artists’ pop-culture magnum opi. Hopefully, Mondrian, da Vinci, and van Gogh aren’t rolling in their graves.
