Sam Bertin

In 2019 I had the honor to work alongside my older brother to design wedding stationery for my sister and brother-in-law’s wedding. We used our experience both as graphic designers and illustrators to create invitations, RSVP cards, programs, and materials for seating arrangements displayed on the day of the wedding.

Working on the number of pieces we did, while also communicating with printers and preparing files for print was a welcome challenge and I’m so happy to have been a part of such a special occasion.

Starting in my junior year of high school, this series of posters has been produced over the last six years with the director of Stoney Creek High School's musical director.  Along with designing the posters I also adjusted my designs to apply to tickets, shirts, yard signs, and programs.

For 2013 and 2014 I designed posters as a member of the tech crew, but upon graduation I was commissioned to design the posters annually.

These posters were explorations in image-based and text-based poster design with a focus on tiny home advocacy. Each poster was created using a mixture of hand rendering and vectors.

The first poster, 400 Square Foot Mansion, was inspired by the work of German expressionist Max Beckmann. The dismissal of perspective and the overall flatness of the poster feed into the concept of a small space.

It’s How You Use It plays on the common suggestive phrase “It’s not the size that counts…”, twisting the meaning to refer to the tiny homes the poster is advocating for.

This project was an exercise in designing multiple elements to be printed for an event. The content of the program, poster, and handbill was all taken from an actual event, but the work was produced after the concert took place.