Mental Health Posters

Experimental Typography | Kinetic Typography | Poster Design | Motion Graphics | Conceptual Design | Social Commentary

What it is:

This series of typographic posters is about mental health and the weird, exhausting performance of pretending you’re okay, just to be polite in society. It explores the gap between what we say out loud (“I’m fine, thanks!”) and what’s actually happening internally. The posters play with that dissonance, using type, color, and lots of tension to express what doesn’t always get said, but maybe sometimes should.

What’s inside:

Posters

A collection of bold, typographic prints that explore mental health through visual contrast and layered messaging.

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Language

Short, emotionally charged phrases that show what’s said out loud and what stays internal.

Tension

A push-and-pull between order and chaos, clarity and distortion, stillness and movement.

The posters:

Design Approach:

Each poster started as an animated typography experiment meant to reflect emotional instability and control (or lack thereof). I used movement to exaggerate tension, distortion, and restraint, then exported single-frame stills from those animations to use as the basis for the final compositions.

The process: