David Plunkert is an art director, illustrator, and co-founder of Spur Design in Baltimore Maryland. Dave’s work has been collected by the Library of Congress and The Cooper-Hewitt Design Museum, and exhibited at the Baltimore Museum of Art and The Design Museum of London. He has received gold medals from the Society of Illustrators, and awarded Best Magazine Cover of the Year by The American Society of Magazine Editors for his August 28th, 2017 cover of The New Yorker. He is a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale.
An introduction to conceptual collage and their direct application to posters with David Plunkert and Mirko Ilic. You'll learn to illustrate posters using simple tools like pens, pencils, ink, combined with collage. We’ll also explore the power of humor, wit, and conceptualization in poster design.
David Plunkert shares work from his long career making theatre posters, music videos, comics, museum exhibits, books, and editorial illustrations. He discusses how trying to do everything all the time helps keep creative ideas flowing, and how making politically charged images has become an important part of his practice.
