Noah Macmillan

(1988-2022) designed the Cinco de Mayo brand identity in 2015, 2016, and 2017. We honor his contributions to the festival and to Cherokee Street by re-issuing his official posters from each of these years. All three posters will be available for purchase at the festival merch booth located at Cherokee & Texas Ave. 

All proceeds from the Noah MacMillan commemorative Cinco de Mayo posters benefit the Noah Philip MacMillan Portfolio Plus Scholarship in honor of the artist who designed them.

Created in Noah’s memory, this scholarship will support a high school art student in the summer portfolio development program Portfolio Plus at Washington University in St. Louis. Noah attended this program as a rising senior in high school. It gave him confidence and built up his portfolio, and WashU became the jumping off point of his career as a professional illustrator.

2015 CINCO DE MAYO POSTER
By: Noah MacMillan

“I make pictures that tell stories with clear ideas, simple design and obsessive attention to color.”

Noah MacMillan

Noah MacMillan receiving his BFA degree in Communication Design from WashU in 2011, Noah worked in St. Louis as a freelance illustrator and taught in the Communication Design program. His career took him to LA and then New York, where he received his MFA in the program for Illustration as Visual Essay at the School of Visual Arts.

His illustrations were featured in The New York Times, Smithsonian Magazine, Bloomberg Business, Sports Illustrated, and often in the Riverfront Times, among many other publications. His large-scale work could be found across the country as well as locally, including murals at the City Museum and Yellowbelly Restaurant, specialty beer labels for Schlafly Beer, and bus wraps for St. Louis MetroMarket. Soccer was a favorite artistic subject, and his work was commissioned by Major League Soccer, EA Sports FIFA, and Howler magazine.

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