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. It explores the gap between what we say out loud (“I’m fine, thanks!”) and what’s actually happening internally (chaos, spiraling, static noise). The posters play with that dissonance, using type to express what doesn’t always get said. It’s neat on the outside, messy on the inside. Kind of like us.

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 hint at what’s said out loud and what stays internal.

Tension

A visual 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 captured stills from those animations to use as the final compositions. The result is a series that feels frozen mid-breakdown. It’s just polished enough to pass, but still barely holding it together.

The process: