JAZZFOUNDATIONS

a grid-based typographic poster designed for a fictional jazz playlist, curated on behalf of the university's music library. 

working exclusively with type, i used extreme shifts in scale to build texture and contrast, while treating negative space as an active compositional element rather than an afterthought.the central concept was jazz itself — the idea of organized chaos: music that feels spontaneous and free yet is rooted in deep structural knowledge. to express that tension visually, i leaned into the assignment's grid system as a framework for controlled disorder — using it to choreograph overlapping text, unconventional paragraph settings, and deliberate compositional breaks that feel improvisational on the surface, but are structurally intentional underneath.