How to Become Real
03-2023Collage & blackout poetry project recontexualizing the story of The Velveteen Rabbit. Explores concepts of femininity, sexuality, and the patriarchy under capitalism, and how the effects begin young.
Artist’s statement here.
Artist’s Book
Physical Media/Collage
Play Ball! Poster
01-2025
ComissionPoster design for baseball film series at Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Poster
Digital - Procreate/PhotoShop/Illustrator
Sex, Love, & Liberation Poster
06-2025
ComissionPoster design for Arthur J. Bressan, Jr, film series at Music Box Theatre in Chicago.
Poster
Digital - PhotoShop/Illustrator
Four Stars Logo
11–2024
Comission
Logo design for Chicago-based film podcast.
Listen Here.
Additional commissioned pieces include postcard advertising for individual episodes.Logo
Digital - Illustrator
Live & Spittin
04-2025
Comission
Album Typography & Back Cover Design for Tyrese Witherspoon’s Live & Spittin’.
Inspired by VHS slip for Richard Pryor’s Live & Smokin’ special.
Listen Here.
Album Cover
Digital - Illustrator
Photography: Taylor Noelle
Photo Editing:
Matt Carr (Movie House Comics)
SpongeBob Squarepants Movie Promo Poster
11-2024
ComissionPromo poster & social media resize for a 20th Anniversary screening of The SpongeBob Squarepants Movie at the Music Box Theatre.
Poster
+ Social Media
Digital - Procreate illustration & PhotoShop
Introduction to Grids
10-2024Typography project exploring the grid and playing with type size & weight, lines, points, & planes. Iteration after iteration of a flyer for a Yale School of Architecture lecture program.
View full book as pdf here.
Typography
Digital - InDesign
Rig Veda Americanus - Language, Linear & Non-Linear Narrative
11-2024Typography project designing pages for a book, with a print and digital version. Presents both original Nahuatl poems & English translations, as well as a Glossary.
View full book as pdf here.
View mobile version here.
Typography
Digital - InDesign & Figma
27th Letter
10-2023GD 230 project creating a potential 27th letter of the alphabet. Study of English letter forms in multiple type faces.
View more iterations + analysis here.
Typography
Physical - Tracing Paper & Marker
Group Doueh Album Cover
04–2023GD 200 Project - Album cover design for Group Doueh's Zanya Jumma. Photography done by me & edited in Photoshop.
Album Art
Digital - Photography & PhotoShop
LILY BACON | film & design
Comissions are open! Click here.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Lily Bacon is a Cleveland-born, Chicago-based filmmaker and designer finishing her degree in Film Directing and Graphic Design at DePaul Univeristy. She specializes in typographic work and production design. With a love for the theatrical, she enjoys work that leans into the artifice of cinema to explore the authenticity of the human experience.