Illustration 1: Problem 2

So I am totally posting these out of order, but oh well.  This is the second problem that I had to do for Illustration 1.  The problem involved making an illustration to promote traveling in Northeast Ohio.  We had to chose some form of transportation and a place or event of some sort.  For my final, I chose to illustrate taking a boat to Cleveland, parking it at a dock and then taking a bus to Progressive Field to see an Indians game.  It is a mixed media piece made up of collage and ink.

Also!  The format is really wide, so it isn't going to fit in this window.  But if you click on the image you can see the whole thing!

IT DOESN'T EVEN UP!

Here are the latest shirts I printed for Annabel.  I recently got the movie Helvetica for Christmas and was inspired to use it for a shirt.  I am guilty of using Helvetica on more things than I probably should, but I think it was just necessary.  "It doesn't even up" is a lyric from one of our songs called Parade Rest.  It's on our myspace; check it out! www.myspace.com/annabelrock.  If you are interested in purchasing one of these shirts, they are only $5 and are printed on plain white Fruit of the Loom or Hanes shirts i bought from Gabriel Brothers.

Phototech Final

For our final in Phototech we were allowed to choose whatever we wanted to do, but it had to have a distinct concept.  The concept I chose was kinda weird and quirky, but it turned out to work pretty well.  My concept was that in the future there would be no land left to build houses so we would have to resort to building on top of structures, or in my case underwater.  The first picture is placed in a suburb where the house is built in a tree.  The second is a city scene where the apartment building is built on a watertower-like structure.  And the third picture is inside a dome underwater.  I didn't necessarily illustrate how people would get inside, up, or down into their houses, but I think they still work.  To make these I took pictures of my own props and made digital composites in photoshop, and the backgrounds are just watercolor spots.

Phototech Diptychs

I took a photo class called Photo Technology last semester, which was a more or less an intermediate level photography class with more advanced photoshop techniques.  Overall, through the class I learned how to use Camera Raw and I learned new skills in photo editing. The objective of the first project was to shoot people in their environments, and it was to center around a general theme.  The theme i chose was "Music Producing."  The assignment also required us to make diptychs, which included the person in their environment as well as a detail. 

Annabel CD Release Show

I haven't finished posting up all of the images from last semester (Illustrations & Photography).  But i've still been productive with other little projects.  The last thing I've been working on was for my band, Annabel, which was a flier for our CD Release Show.  The show will be held at The Rathskellar in Kent, OH with some of our good friends Delay from Columbus, and See Urchin, our other Kent friends.  

GD1 Problem 3: Short Term Identity

For this 3rd project in GD1, we were to create a short term identity for an event.  We picked an event from a hat and a city from another hat.  I randomly picked Experimental Film Festival and Montreal.  To create my short term identity, I created figures that were made up of pieces of film and montreal.  For example, I used a video camera for his head, a Montreal Canadian hockey player for his body, the quebec flag around his neck, and he is holding a wand with film streaming out.  I was also really happy with how this project turned out, being the last project for the class I was able to use the last drops of creativity without burning myself out completely.  My favorite part is the magnetic closure that holds the brochure.  I need to fix the clasp for the packaging unit, because it somehow ripped when I got it back from my professor.  But not that big of a deal.

The pictures I took are pretty DIY, and i should have taken them on a black background.  But i'll probably re-shoot them for my portfolio anyway.  

GD1 Problem 2: Time 100 Book

For our 2nd problem in GD1, we were to design a book which documents the historical significance of someone from the list, Time 100.  I did not end up choosing from the list because it wasn't required by our professor.  I ended up designing my book for Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys.  Overall i'm happy with how this project turned out.  I had a lot of printing problems, for some reason it was hard to get all of the colors right, but it all worked out in the end.  I decided to make it more hands on than a regular book by adding pull outs and paper engineering methods.  Click on the pictures to see them larger.

Problem 1: 3 Layout Series

Image Dominant

Type Dominant

Diagrammatic

The first actual project was to create a 3 page layout series including an Image Dominant Layout, a Type dominant Layout, and a Diagrammatic Layout.  For my topic I chose to do a series for a vinyl record sale at Square Records in Akron.  

Exercise 1

To start things off, I decided I was just going to post pictures of everything I did during fall semester '08 and give a little background about each project.  I will start with all of the stuff I did in Graphic Design 1, and then get to Illustration 1, and possibly even Phototech.

Exercise 1: 5 Simple Page Layout Studies

In this exercise we were to experiment with type, form, structure, and use of color to create interesting layouts.  We were to have one of each of the following: Horizontal and Vertical Grid, Diagonal Grid, Center Axis, Internal Structure, and Free Placement.

Horizontal and Vertical Grid

Center Axis

Free Placement

Diagonal Grid

Internal Structure

The first three were definitely my favorite, the last 2 just weren't as successful.  But anyway, this was the first project in the class.

First Post!

Hello Everyone!  I decided to start this blog in order to show my design work.  I am currently a Junior in Visual Communication Design at Kent State University, so I intend on showing school related material as well as other projects I might be working on.  I also play in a band called Annabel from Kent, OH, so I do a lot of design for that as well.  I've never really been that dedicated to updating blogs, so hopefully this will be different.