So here we are... This was a tough one, it took me a week of on-and-off working on it, just because I really wanted to make something I liked for one of my favorite movies :)

If you guys haven't seen Everything Everywhere All At Once yet, I can't recommend it enough!!! I won't spoil too much trying to describe my idea.

I looked over the Internet and found so many wonderful posters showing how weird and goofy this movie is, but I had an idea that I couldn't find anywhere. Great start!

The plot of the film revolves around a Chinese family in America, that owns a laundromat. In the beginning scene, the mom is trying to figure out taxes. Later in the movie the phrase "doing laundry and taxes" is part of a very important conversation that makes me cry like a baby every time, so it was a no-brainer to follow that. It seems quite simple and "normal" in the grand scheme of the movie, but I wanted to work with one of the main lessons of the film - even the simple things can have their magic.

My choice of colors reflects a couple of outfits that are two of the more normal outfits in this movie, fitting in with the theme of the poster.

Jaime Lee Curtis plays an IRS auditor Deirdre and I find her outfit absolutely hilarious:

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 1 - student project

The other outfit that I used for color inspiration is the main protagonist Evelyn's (portrayed by Michelle Yeoh). Here is a photo of her with a googly eye (a goofy element I decided to add to my design):

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 2 - student project

I started out with a single laundry machine and a tax form attached to it

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 3 - student project

I wanted to make the poster flat but tried to play with the inside of the laundry machine. I was going after the look of clothes spinning. It didn't look that good so I removed it.

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 4 - student project

I asked for some feedback from my partner, and he said it looked like a coffee mug on a table. Alright, fair... Let me fix that then. Also started thinking more about the layout and wondering where I would fit the title (which is quite lengthy), so decided to multiply the laundry machine by 4. That way it looks more like a laundromat. Changed the tax form a bit too.

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 5 - student project

It feels like we're getting somewhere. Played a bit with fitting the words "everything" "everywhere" and "all at once" inside the machines but I couldn't make it look good and it didn't fit my vision so I changed it up again. Made the machines smaller, fit them into the bottom right corner, and added EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE at the top. A24 is the studio that produced this movie so I put it at the bottom.

The background is inspired by the real laundromat where the movie was filmed. I added wooden texture and changed the color and opacity of it to make it look like wooden panels on the wall.

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 6 - student project

Played with colors a bit, centered the laundry machines, and added ones on the side. For ALL AT ONCE, I had to learn some new techniques in Adobe Illustrator. I'm quite proud of that, it took me 3-4 attempts to get it right ^-^

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 7 - student project

Removed the stroke from the title, added some more googly eyes for extra goofiness and here is the final result:

Everything Everywhere All At Once - image 8 - student project

Hope you guys like it! I had a lot of fun figuring everything out :) <3

I'm open to any suggestions to make it even better!

P.s. The directors are Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert. They directed another of my favorite movies - Swiss Army Man, which is just as wonderful and weird as EEAAO. RECOMMEND!

Yuliana Manolova

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