Collegium Musicum (2023–2025) promotional poster design

This poster series was created for the Department of Music at the University of Notre Dame. The posters  blend the historical with the contemporary in order to promote modern performances of the small Baroque and Renaissance vocal motet ensemble, Collegium Musicum. These posters both advertise individual concerts as well as establish a visual identity for Collegium’s performances. Each design was digitally collaged using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator and was printed between 2023–2025.

Poster Series

Poster Series

This poster series celebrates the ensemble’s mission: reviving early motet music for contemporary audiences. Across the series, the repetition of historical imagery (medieval music engravings, Gothic cathedrals, blackletter typography, and Renaissance portraiture) remix modern design techniques (halftone texture, intricate hairline illustration, and structured layouts) in order to create a visual polyphony.

Musical staff lines, ledger lines, and notation-inspired elements structure the compositions, both evoking Baroque counterpoint’s rhythmic precision and blurring into hazy fields of layered depth. Restrained color blocking enhances contrast, bridging past and present. By recontextualizing early music through digital collage, the series innovates classical music marketing, provoking engagement and discussion while making medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque vocal traditions visually compelling for modern audiences.

The director of Collegium is Daniel Stowe. Collegium is a small vocal ensemble specializing in sacred and secular music from the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque eras. The Collegium Musicum performs programs each spring and fall in the Reyes Organ and Choral Hall in the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center, and periodically in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart.

Outcomes

Every performance in the series for which a poster was created was completely sold out, with standing room only capacity of the music halls also being sold out.