A fun poster series will raise money to benefit a scholarship.
“No one was more fun than Lauren was,” said Alex Wier, one of the founders of Wier/Stewart, about Lauren Cowart, who worked at the design firm for seven years before she and her daughter, Blakely, age 5, were killed in a boating accident in June 2019.
The poster series was unveiled on July 21 — the day Cowart would’ve turned 40.
Three designs are part of the initial release. Called “poster children,” the images are a fun tribute to their lost colleague and friend.
One is a rendering of the Broad Street Blaster, a temporary public art piece painted in front of the Wier/Stewart location on Broad Street in 2018. The building was being renovated at the time, and a temporary plywood facade was constructed in front of the building.
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In an effort to beautify the facade, Wier/Stewart employees turned it into a 1980s-style boom box, complete with a website of tunes people could access if they were nearby.
“Lauren worked on that project,” Wier said.
Daniel Stewart, the company’s president, has also created a piece called “Collaboration in Moderation,” combining his signature doodle of a bottle with some of his “favorite imagery from around 982 Broad St.,” according to the Wier/Stewart website.
The third piece draws from Leonard Porkchop Zimmerman’s robot themed art. Called “Tommy,” after a robot that appears in Zimmerman’s work, it could become a paper doll robot, or it could remain a poster.
Wier said other designs would be released over the next several months.
These three posters are 18-inches by 24-inches and are $25 each.
In addition to the poster children, other posters for sale include several test prints. Test prints are the first images through a screen print process. They may be incomplete and have more multiple images superimposed. They are unique and can’t be duplicated, said Wier. A few have already been sold from the website.
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The Lauren Cowart Memorial Scholarship provides $1,000 to a student majoring in advertising, marketing, public relations or graphic design at an area college or university. Two students have received the award. Rah’Mere Williams received the first scholarship in 2020, and Jarod Carrier was the 2021 recipient.
To purchase posters, visit wierstewart.com/shop.
Charmain Z. Brackett is the Features Editor for The Augusta Press. Reach her at charmain@theaugustapress.com.
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