Plaster & Pace:
Equestrian Monuments from Antiquity, 100 BCE-100CE

GRAPHIC
DESIGN

A fictional exhibition + graphic design project exploring equestrian monuments through an intersectional lens

    • Team: Solo Project

    • Type: Fictional Exhibition Identity

    • Year: 2025

    • Timeline: 1 week

    • Format: Poster Series + Advertising Billboard

    • Concept Development

    • Graphic Design + Layout

    • Logo Design

    • Typography + Visual System

    • Colour Story + Visual Strategy

    • Image sourcing (via Public.Works

    • Art Historical Research

    • Adobe InDesign

    • Adobe Photoshop

    • Figma

    • Public.Works (Image Archive)

    • Personal Archive (Academic Essay, 2016)

This graphic design project is a speculative exhibition concept that reimagines ancient equestrian fresco fragments as contemporary visual narratives.

Developed as a solo project over one week, this body of work reinterprets an undergraduate art history paper through a graphic design lens — fusing historical research with typographic play, layout strategy, and open-access digital archives.

Drawing from my 2016 essay on Renaissance equestrian monuments and their political symbolism, I designed a fictional exhibition exploring earlier precedents in classical antiquity. The fresco fragments — sourced from Public.Works — serve as historical anchors, hinting at the fragmented nature of both preservation and imperial image-making.

The posters merge bold typographic contrasts with modernist colour blocking, evoking tension between ruin and revival. Each layout considers how heroic imagery, even in broken form, continues to shape how bodies, power, and motion are staged across time.

This project reflects my continued interest in the afterlives of visual culture — and how design can both preserve and reframe inherited symbols for contemporary audiences.