Kyle Eertmoed has a poster in VALUES :: A Poster Exhibition, opening Friday, September 11, 2026 at Two Thirty in River North. It's a group show from the Chicago Graphic Design Club and AHA Time, with more than forty designers each answering the same question: what value defines this moment into a poster.

Kyle Eertmoed's COURAGE poster

Kyle Eertmoed's COURAGE poster

I chose the value of courage because my last name, Eertmoed, translates to “honors courage” in Dutch (eert moed). To me, courage is not the absence of fear but the willingness to move forward in spite of it. Fear shows up often in my line of work, launching before it feels perfect, letting go of what’s familiar, saying something bold and true. I’ve learned that fear doesn’t always mean stop, it often just means “I haven’t done this before.” This piece is both personal and professional. A reminder to honor courage by feeling the fear and doing it anyway.

The brief itself was open. Designers worked in typography, collage, photography, and 3D, whatever the value called for. Which means the show is genuinely varied. Forty-plus designers and artists, one question, forty-plus different sets of hands and instincts.

Featuring Aaron S., Amrita Haughn, Annie Norris, Arianna Sanchez, BANK™, Barry Deck, Bilal Syed, Brian M Woodard, Cameron Sow, Carlos Segura, Carolyn Tubekis, Cass Pokora, Cath Dizon, Celeste Nunez, Cheryl Bever, Christian Solorzano, Cristina Bottía, David Sieren, Declan Kelly, Emma Bloom, Frances Bedoya, Francis, Gabriella De La Hoya, George Miller, Gregory Darteh, Haley Helmold, Iana Evseeva, John Wegner, Kate Parks, Kyle Eertmoed, Lawryn Johnson, Lola Z., Max Epperson, Morgan Manasa, Neha Sunkara, Nick Adam, Reese Verbsky, Rick Valicenti, Sadie Van Wie, Sean Fermoyle, Tanner Woodford, Wendy Robles, Zoë Breillatt.

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AHA Time, the nonprofit behind the collaboration, works on the beliefs that steer your decisions whether or not you've ever put language to them, and on what changes once you do. A poster is a useful forcing function for that.

Two Thirty is hosting in the garden studio at 230 W Superior Street, a design-minded workspace in River North that has become a venue for the kind of gathering that doesn't fit in a conference room.

One Design Company, a longtime collaborator of the Chicago Graphic Design Club, is a partner on the event.