Pictures of awesome stuff.
Typography and Page Layout
Font Flyer
This was the exercise assignment for week two of Typography and Page Layout. The goal was to research any font we wanted and then display the information we found in an appealing way with minimal graphics.
Courier New is typically the typeface used for the Windows OS ‘Blue Screen of Death’ which is where the inspiration for the display came from.
Created with InDesign.
Typography and Page Layout
Water Bottle Label
The main project for week one was to create a water bottle label based on a word chosen from a provided list. I chose Attis, a Phrygian god of vegetation who is said to have been born from an almond seed.
This was completed in Adobe Illustrator.
Typography and Page Layout
Concert Ticket
The exercise (minor assignment) this week was to create a concert ticket for an actual event about to occur in our area.
This assignment was completed using Adobe InDesign.
Typography and Page Layout
Water Bottle Label
The main project for week one was to create a water bottle label based on a word chosen from a provided list. I chose Shakti, the Hindu goddess who represents divine energy and empowerment.
This was completed in Adobe Illustrator.
Illustrator Friday Challenge – Melt (Icarus)
I had a hard time a first thinking of a composition I would be interested in working on. The typical ice cream, ice cubes, and such came to mind, but were uninspiring. While getting ready for work I got onto the train of thought of wax, which led me to thinking of the Greek myth of Icarus.
He flew so close to the sun that the heat melted the wax holding the feathers to his wings causing him to fall to his death.
The sun in the background is contained within a lantern, which acts as a frame and makes the scene seem more like a vision. The sides of the lantern have melted wax dripping down, adding to the sense of heat and light. The sun itself is also melting, pushing the feeling that the scene is falling apart, just like Icarus’ wings.
This was the final image for this week’s Illustrator Friday Challenge. The word we were given was ‘Pet’.
The word pet can be used in a dehumanizing and degrading context. To invoke this connotation I created a digital painting of a woman in a short kimono. Her shoulder is tattooed with the kanji for dog as a way to show she is thought of as little more than an animal, a pet.
The lighting of the scene focuses on the tattoo, as I feel this is the most important element in the story. The bare skin of the woman’s shoulder is the next thing the eye should be caught by, as it is the brightest area in the composition, which emphasizes her state of undress.
The composition is relatively dark to instill a more ominous feeling. I wanted there to be a sense of vulnerability, as if something bad were lurking in the shadows.
This is the second project for my class Digital Story Telling. The goal was to take something ‘unpackagable’ and to turn it into an product which could be marketed.
Artist Statement
The inspiration for my product came after a stressful situation l where I was worried my tolerance would run out.
Tolerance will be tablets sold in stores, much the way Tylenol and Advil are.
I think of tolerance as a strong, long-standing, almost stoic trait. Because of this association I have decided to use an Ancient Greek theme for the marketing of my product.
The main assignment for this week was to create an info graphic. Below is the artist statement I wrote to accompany the composition.
Artist Statement
Through brainstorming I came to the term ‘safety’, which led to a curiosity about the crime rates of Orlando, my current residence. After looking through crime reports I chose to do an info graphic around some of the more interesting facts I found.
I felt that using a realistic photo for the background would help the facts feel more real and impactful. The darker coloration is used to help with overall readability. The red coloring in the text is used to draw the eye to the important data.
Currently I am using American Typewriter for most of the text to invoke a legal / report type feel to the composition.
This was the final image I created for the Illustrator Friday Challenge. This week’s work was ‘wiggle’. Below is my artist statement.
Artist Statement
After brainstorming I decided to go with the more somber topic of drunk driving for my design. Through word association I came to the terms jell-o, immature, and wiggle room. I worked all of these terms together through my image of a hand reaching for a set of keys sitting on a table populated with jell-o shots.
The foreground and background will be faded to draw attention to the mid-ground of the scene. The jell-o shots will be red as a way to draw more attention to the mid-ground and to push a more warning / danger feeling into the composition.
I may or may not be procrastinating on homework by writing this. And by may or may not I mean I totally am… Why does intellectual property and law have to be so dry and boring to the right side of my brain? ;-;
Anyway I figured I would take a second to recap my trip home since I haven’t done that yet. And I figured since there will be pictures that this post should be part of my horde; my pile of precious things that I gather around myself and cherish.
This was the first time in a while that I had company on the drive home, which was nice and odd at the same time. It was nice that my mom and I were both comfortable with silence, so we didn’t have to talk the whole six hours.
Once I got to my mom’s house I hung out with one of the few people I still talk to from high school. We actually spent the day walking around the Battery and historic downtown Charleston.
It’s funny that I’ve lived in the area almost all of my life but I’ve never really been a tourist in my own town. There’s so many things that I haven’t seen or done that I really aught to. Much like how I live in Orlando now, but I’ve never been to the everglads, the Space Center, or Univeral Studios.
There’s all these things around me that people would kill to do, and I’m just sitting here doing my daily grind with work. I’m working on fixing that though.
So yeah, while I was home I actually took time to have a vacation, and walking around downtown was part of that. I got super sunburnt, I ate totally unhealthy food, and I drank while I was dehydrated so I had a headache the next morning.
And I regret nothing.
I had a blast, I got to reconnect with one of my friends. We passed out on the floor watching cartoons, and in the morning we woke up at 9, got fast food breakfast and went to the beach where I stood in the water as the tide came in and he read a book.
I didn’t check my email the whole time I was home. Which meant I had, at one point, 90 emails to go through. That wasn’t even work related emails. I had messages on Facebook that needed attention, and my room was still a disaster from the move.
But none of that matter while I was at home for those few days.
I slept until I woke up. No alarms. I didn’t worry about the gym, or the dojo, or what I should, aught, needed to do. I just existed and let things happen. It was nice letting everything go for a little while.
Right Brain: “Screw that being adult shit. I’m going to go make a blanket fort and color with glitter crayons.”
So now it’s the end of Monday, and the end of my first full day back in the swing of things. And I’m glad to be back, but I’m also glad for the break I allowed myself to have. Here are some pictures of my awesome time, because pics or it didn’t happen.
This is what I remember when I think of home. Green, everywhere. So many trees and so much grass. Flowers and bushes. So much warmth, growth, and life.
Nasse photo-bombing my picture…
The pineapple of downtown.
I really did go to the beach.
And I really was in the water. Just for you Mother Earth. <3