POLAROID BRAND POP-UP
Experiential Design
Graphic Design
“Positioning Polaroid
as the antidote to the smartphone”
As a legacy brand in the modern world selling products that some might consider to be obsolete, Polaroid has positioned itself as an alternative to an “always on culture.”
This brand experience pop-up designed to be present at the 2023 Kansas City NFL draft fully encapsulates the “in-the-moment” brand ethos of Polaroid. This lounge space features branded elements and various physical touchpoints such as a photo booth, a photo opportunity, a branded mirror, furniture to relax in, and photo books to interact with. This comes together to create an experience that encourages personal interaction and places an emphasis on physical and analog items over their digital counterparts.
30” 60” 66” 8’ 20’ 8’ 7’ 9’ Shipping Crate Interior Retrofit
Polaroid Mirror
Polaroid Photo Wall
Polaroid
Standing Wall Photo-op
Photo Booth
Lounge Table
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Photo Booth & Coffee Table
Photo-op wall
BREADBOX
Packaging Design
Branding
Product Photography
Elevating the mundane.
Breadbox as a brand takes an otherwise ordinary object and packages it in a way to elevate it to the status of something extraordinary. Inspired by the simple geometric shapes and bold colors of the puzzle, this beautiful slip case serves as both a storage device and a decorative object.
REDSHIFT
Branding
Art Direction
Graphic Design
What is left when you find yourself alone at the end of the universe?
Redshift is the visual identity for a science fiction film festival, featuring a poster series for the different movies. Each poster features its own “artifact” symbolic to the main themes of its respective film. Additionally, the visual elements around the artifacts are inspired by themes at the root of all of these films: isolation, perspective, and free will.
The films featured at this festival are: Blade Runner, A Clockwork Orange, Arrival, Alien, Back to The Future, and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
red·shift /’red’SHift/ noun - ASTRONOMY the displacement of spectral lines toward longer wavelengths (the red end of the spectrum) in radiation from distant celestial objects as they move away from the earth.
TYPE: A DESIGNER’S MANUAL
Publication Design
Art Direction
A typographic workbook for designers.
This beautiful book functions as a typographic manual for graphic designers, utilizing scale and color to create image from type. Spanning 122 pages, this book covers all of the typographic rules a designer needs to know.
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EMPYREAN BLISS
Publication Design
Photography
Empyrean: relating to heaven or the sky. Bliss: perfect happiness; great joy.
This zine is about photography and the role it plays in nostalgia. Empyrean refers to the light shed upon the earth by the sun, and bliss refers to the false sense of perfection we feel with nostalgia for the past.
The multichannel risograph printing creates a cohesive, dream-like feeling to all of the images, making them feel like memories of the past. The illustrations are found imagery from an ecclesiastical handbook, tying into the concept of empyrea. The zine is made in an accordion fold construction, allowing each spread to seamlessly flow into the next, the blocks of concrete poetry guiding the viewer’s eye throughout.
Merrick Farris Selected Works