GOVENAIRES 2024 SHOW GRAPHICS

For the 2024 sea­son, I had the priv­i­lege of design­ing graph­ics for the Gove­naires Drum and Bugle Corps, based in St. Peter, MN. Their pro­gram, Wood­stock: This is the Dawn­ing, drew inspi­ra­tion from the leg­endary Wood­stock music fes­ti­val. My task was to cre­ate a poster rem­i­nis­cent of Max Yasgur’s Farm poster, blend­ing the Wood­stock aes­thet­ic with the Gove­naires’ dis­tinct iden­ti­ty and col­or palette.

Categories

Envi­ron­men­tal Design
Art Direc­tion
Graph­ic Design
Illus­tra­tion
Let­ter­ing

Skills

Adobe Illus­tra­tor
Pro­cre­ate
Font­self

To achieve this, I illus­trat­ed all ele­ments from scratch, includ­ing a cen­tral design fea­tur­ing a sun­burst and a com­bi­na­tion drum-and-bugle motif that sym­bol­ized the team’s spir­it. I cre­at­ed cus­tom hand-let­ter­ing for the pro­gram title, Gove­naires 2024, and devel­oped a full font file for the let­ter­ing, mak­ing it eas­i­er to apply con­sis­tent­ly across var­i­ous for­mats and graph­ic needs. Inte­grat­ing their team col­ors with the Wood­stock-inspired palette added an extra lay­er of cohe­sion and vibrancy.

This project pushed me out of my com­fort zone styl­is­ti­cal­ly, but I embraced the chal­lenge and deliv­ered a design that cel­e­brat­ed their theme and vision. I’m incred­i­bly proud that the Gove­naires went on to win the Drum Corps Inter­na­tion­al (DCI) cham­pi­onship in the all-ages cat­e­go­ry, and I’m hon­ored to have con­tributed to their success.