- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Foundations of Design: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Exploring Point, Line & Planes (Project 1) This project, alongside Graphic Design as an encompassing major, was definitely the step I needed to help redefine what I wanted as an artist. You don’t really think about how simple shapes can interact in so many interesting ways until you’re pushed to work so minimally. I’m tempted to try it again, honestly. The project, I mean. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Object Abstraction (Project 2) I remember a lot of people having trouble with this one for some reason. Maybe I did too, without thinking it. I was far more illustrative than I needed to be when it came to abstracting something like a telephone. With a little refinement, this would almost look classy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Pattern (Project 3/4) I bundled project 3 & 4 together, sure, but really the basic shape shown in the 4th square encompassed the rest of the semester for this class. It was definitely a project that I had to be really inventive for, but by the end of this section at least, I felt like I was pushed up against the limits of what I could do with it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Color & Value"(Project 5) By the end, we were stuck with one pattern. All we could change now was the greyscale value, or the color of the pattern (within a small palette.) If there was anywhere further I could’ve gone with this, I don’t imagine it would’ve been all that much further. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Graphic Design Software: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 10 Objects Graphic Design Software was a fun class honestly. On most early sessions, we’d practice replicating logos or symbols for the sake of learning the pen tool. And for all that prep work? I think this assignment actually didn’t let us use it at all. But it was still fun to build stuff in our houses out of basic shapes. Nothing wrong with that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Robot This was a simple project at the end of the day. We just drew up some robots on paper, replicated them with vector tools, and gave them simple palettes of color. It was fun getting to design a little character that made the most of its shapes. I took a bit of influence from the old cartoon “My Life As A Teenage Robot”, in how the design is very flat and comical looking. Plus I thought it would be fun to design a robot that was just operating in a very mundane environment, but other than that, not much else to say. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Face Trace (Self Portrait Assignment) Can’t remember for the life of me as to why I chose the scruffiest photo of myself to vectorize, but I’m just glad I remembered how to shave once everyone started coming back to campus. Really though, I still love this piece. I got a surprising amount of detail out of a somewhat limited amount of values to work with, and I think it holds up because of it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Initial Collage Not like, “the first collage in the course” but like, literally an initial in a collage. I’ve been wiped out enough by this week that I have to keep reminding myself of that. For this image, I decided to ask my photographer friend if I could borrow some of their pics to throw together in this, and they were happy to see the end result I think. I’m still happy with this at least. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Flat Collage Then again, it kinda was the initial collage, wasn’t it. I still felt like I could improve my photoshop skills, and this project let me really do that! Upon presenting this piece, I remember my professor asking if I just took a photo of the elements in the top left together because I did the shadows and masking convincingly enough. I’d be prouder of this whole thing if the cables and tablecloth didn’t kill the whole illusion though. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Textured Collage Kind of a mess looking at it now, but still think this one is fun. I think I may have gone nuts with one of those gold star sticker sheets just for this sparkly set of textures. Definitely captures what I think was some kind of time anxiety that I still admittedly have. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Final Flat Collage While a lot flatter looking than the other flat collage, this one has a lot of fun elements. I had a good time putting together the postcard, and an even better time making the stamp feel convincing. If those stamp making websites still exist (or exist at all), I might get a pack of these at some point. The mountain dew still looks completely squished though. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Image Lab: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Objects On Paper I don’t think I expected to have two classes that focused a lot on collaging stuff together in one semester, and this assignment should have tipped me on to that earlier. I think I’ve seen some cutesy stuff like this online before, and I think I pulled off the look those people must’ve been going for. I just can’t resist the car charger telescope. It really was as simple as drawing legs underneath it. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Various Paper Collages I think these proper scrapbook-like collages are where I had some of the most fun this semester. I still have the top left piece pinned on my wall. I can’t remember if we were given prompts for any of these or if we were just told to dig out of the recycling bin and go ham for a few minutes. I definitely miss all the advertising magazines I completely tore up for this... Either way, really fun set of practice assignments. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Andrew Horowitz Collage For this we were told to just pick someone we wanted to make a collage of, and that we could grab anything off of google images to throw together. I decided to pick composer/piano player/niche band member Andrew Horowitz for this, and I think the result came out ok. I might’ve refrained from using so many keyboards for the jacket if I made this now, but otherwise there’s still enough small references tucked in here to make me happy with it today. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fiesta Medal Project Supposedly, we were gonna get physical versions of these made by the professor after this project was done, but I guess something came up or it just wasn’t feasible. Asides from that, I still appreciate this medal design, but I wish I could’ve just filled the bit outside of CRRC completely blue. Probably would’ve helped it feel a lot simpler. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fables Triptych This was just a simple photoshop collage project that had us making them in accordance with fables or other short stories. Not too much to say beyond describing the fables, the strange illustration-like approach I took to some elements and that’s too much for this I think. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Fry Key Final Project I could’ve at least used real McDonalds fries here. I think for this final project, we were setup to come up with a concept for a mockup advertisement. Originally, the key was made out of McDonalds breakfast food in the concept art I sketched up, but I just decided to make fries at home for the final photo, and I think the piece benefitted a lot from it. Even if the tagline isn’t as clear as it could be. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Typography: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Negative Space Experiments Like foundations of design before it, this course started of with us focusing on strict use of form. That said, the use of different fonts and symbols definitely helped with branching out my ideas. I think the assignment displayed here in particular was just one that had us displaying the negative space between letters, and even that was pretty fun to complete. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Venera (French Fold Project) This was a project that I still think I did quite well on. I limited myself to a palette of about 3 colors or less per page, and doing that halfway through the project is what I like to imagine made this so striking to look at. That and I’d hope my use of scale helps a lot here too. This is definitely a project I want to iterate on later. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Luc Devroye (Indesign Print Final) I don’t think about this one a lot, but I definitely put the work in to try and make this look interesting to read even from far away. I think I’m just a sucker for big bold letters against small type. That, and spending the time researching this guy to fill out the pamphlet was enjoyable too. I think if I wanted to make a professionally designed booklet or article like this again for print, I could definitely do that. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Writing For Media: - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 120 (Advertising Mockup Final) This wasn’t even for an art class, but we had to come up with some nice- looking fake advertisement and given the professor for this course retired at the end of this semester, I wanted to try hard to make something she’d think was cool. It’s honestly not executed all that well, but with a reshoot and some fine tuning, I think this idea has some potential.

This section contains material from: Foundations Of Design, Graphic Design Software, Image Lab,·Typography, and Writing For Media. (... alongside personal work.)

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - september 9th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe illustrator - - - - - - - - - - - - collage of 15 design concepts - - - - - -

variation 1: “illustrative”

variation 2: “simple line”

variation 3: “block-out”

variation 4: “extra abstracted”

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - october 5th-19th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe illustrator - - - - - - - - - - - - collage of 9 design concepts; “lop-eared rabbit shapes” - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - november 9th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe illustrator - - - - - - - - - - - - - collage of 9 design elaborations - - - - - - - -

- - - - - - - - - - - - - september 1st, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe illustrator - - - - - - - - - - - - - objects depicted: desk lamp, pocket book, coffee mug, cd case, battery, art desk, television, nintendo wii, tube sock, painting. - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - october 20th, 2020 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe photoshop - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - photos used / modified with permission of @beaudeer (instagram) - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

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“web design & new media”

“fancy triangles”

“electrical girl”

“car ghosting”

“EAT”

“sprite”

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“cow”

“fox”

“dog”

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- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - may 5th, 2021 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - produced in adobe photoshop - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -