MGalen Design

Graphic designs by Michael Galen.

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I love working with type and images. Type carries information and images carry feeling. Creating shapes and graphics with type, as well as color and font choices, helps reinforce the feeling of the image.

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OBJECTIVE: 1 page (2 sided) press kit for the contemporary circus theater show Pole Disclosure.

The show had just debuted and did not have a brand design standards yet, so I made a color palette and type selection for their brand.

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Personal project. Thinking about the idea of ‘staying within the lines’. Also, the emanating curves of energy so representative of dance. And lastly, the depth of nuance and subtext created in dance performances.

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Objective: Create promo materials in various formats for this event. Text and logos provided. No brand style sheet to adhere too.

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Objective: promotional graphic for poster, fliers, IG, and FB formats. Text and logos provided.

I love working with community organizations and helping out with my design skills.

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A poster + an FB event cover for the Social Justice Action Center. Creating robust and consistent marketing campaigns to meet the client needs.

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Nice secondary triad colors here. Expressing the vibrant colorful nature of Massamba Diop - a talking drum griot and world class musician from Senegal. 

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Branding and image for a new funk live music event. Working with cool hues to match the underwater theme and the idea of blues being the musical origins of funk and soul. Also, building out different sizes to be used for a facebook event cover and an instagram story.

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Another poster for the second production of Rejoice’s ‘MidSummer Night at the Savoy’. My goal was to have information content follow the line of action and interest of the dancers. Everything is swooping down from the upper right corner to the lower left, giving a feel of excitement, action, and direction.

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Strong photography is everything with posters for performances. This was taken by the great Andy Batt. I did my best to support the beauty and power already there: matching font colors to the images color palette and italicizing the title to support the action of the dancer. I always say, ‘If i’m doing my job well, no one comments on the design. They just say, “I want to go to that show”.’

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Poster for CD release of POPgoji.

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Poster for the show Uprise, by Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater.

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Tri-fold brochure for a gymnastics academy. 

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Logo for a podcast talking to different artists and creative professionals about their creative process.

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Business cards. Two options for the provocative and cutting edge Afro-contemporary dance theater company.

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11x17″ poster for a two night concert program exploring the history of the African diaspora through music. The figures are all famous musicians from West Africa, USA, and Brazil (which were the musical destinations of the show). The Ghanaian Kente cloth at the bottom matches the title at the top, and also matches the colors of the line-up list on the left.

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Poster for Rejoice! Diaspora Dance Theater’s show ALEGRIA