Matthew Kee / Work / Poster Series
Layers of Durnovaria
Every place is a palimpsest. Dorchester just has more pages than most.
See it in the 3D portfolio
Five posters peeling back two thousand years of Dorchester, from Iron Age hillfort to Poundbury.
Each sheet stacks historic maps, plans and type on one Swiss grid, with overprinted layers that read like strata. A sixth map brings every period together.
- Brief
- A poster series about Dorchester's two thousand years, from Iron Age hillfort to Poundbury.
- Process
- Historic maps, plans and type stacked on one Swiss grid, with overprinted layers that read like strata.
- Outcome
- Five posters, a sixth layered map that brings every period together, and the series shown on a bus shelter and in a gallery.
- Disciplines
- Poster Design, Typography, Mapping
- Tools
- Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop
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