The Pick Progress Project is a project sponsored by AIGA Kansas City focused on the Pick Progress is a project focused on sharing stories of Black individuals and highlighting elements of Black culture. I was tasked with creating a poster centered on the theme of "Hope" incorporating the color blue.
Once completed, the poster along with other designs were displayed at the University of Kansas.
I’ve always been fascinated by the extraterrestrial and their connection to the struggle of black people’s attempts at finding/building their identity in America. Two groups of “people” displaced but forced to survive in an unfamiliar, fairly hostile environment. What if we could communicate with the above and travel to a new world or utopia where we truthfully could find comfort and ultimate belonging? To communicate these ideas I was heavily inspired by The X File’s “I Want to Believe” poster. Straightforward in its message to inspire hope in the belief of UFO’s, I wanted to encourage the message of “Hope” for a better, reimagined world for black folks.