The League of Women Voters chapters in Perrysberg and Bowling Green requested a poster to promote activities celebrating the 19th Amendment designs that would be used across NW Ohio.

I have been designing for the League of Women Voters chapter in Bowling Green, Ohio for approximately 2 years. From the onset I was challenged to design publications and imagery that worked within the National LWV Corporate Standards. Most importantly the local LWV chapters wanted broaden the group demographics to appeal to younger adults.

The resulting poster design uses a photo of Ohio suffragettes from 1919, supplied by the Bowling Green State Archive. Layering and transparency affects applied via Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop were create a veneer of age to the design. The image was modified to resemble a steel engraving. The layering of the photo and color shifts in color density and transparency were used to reference Dada and Rauschenberg collage paintings along with inspiration from Pop Art's insistence on using multiple images.