I learned today that last year’s Orcas Island Film Festival poster has received a 2025 Graphis Poster Gold Award. Donna Laslo and Carl Spence were Co-Creative Directors along with myself. We’re thrilled.
The OIFF takes place on a rugged and beautiful 57-square mile rock in the San Juan Islands of Washington state. The 6,000 year-round residents are collectively intelligent, creative, literate, self-entertaining, and empathetic. Those qualities make for a fascinating community that chooses to live on this less-than-accessible (no bridges/only ferries and commuter planes) island. Our hope was that we could convey that quirky sense of place and spirit best through Midjourney's AI capability. The creative result was a poster featuring a mysterious projector of sorts deep in one of the island's dense fir forest. Quirky? In spades.
