Typographic Poster

For a guest lecture in a high school class, I gave the students a challenge: write your own poem and turn it into a typographic poster. To guide them, I created this example using a poem written by a student studying literature. The words were layered, dreamy, intense and I wanted the design to reflect that.

I shaped the word ‘lippen’ (Dutch for ‘lips’) into the silhouette of the face of a woman, with the lips in red as the only highlight, surrounded by darkness.

The goal? To show how typography can carry emotion. How type isn't just about form. It's about tension, rhythm, and silence too. This is how graphic design can enhance a message and evoke emotion