French Fold Design

For this project we had to make a french fold (ei a folding poster with stuff on the back). I chose to do Conan O'brien because I tend to go more ridiculous the closer to the end of the semester it is. I decided to go away from vectoring since that is what is dominating my portfolio right now, and go with some photoshop graphics. I really like the front side, but the back was not as great as I would have hoped. Overall, I really like how I handled the front and cant wait to hang it in my apartment.

Poster Designs

So, this is the project I have possibly lost the most sleep over. I did the bottom work then the prof said that he changed his mind after I had already spent a week working on the bottom one, so I had 2 days to make the top one. Lots o coffee being drank after 12, but anyway, I like how they both turned out, and I am actually kinda happy that my prof pushed me to make two.

Newspaper Layout

So for this one we had to do a newspaper layout. My prof suggested that we use foreign languages, which gave me a good chance to test out those 3 years of Japanese... which kinda failed since I ended up just using the story from an article that already existed. BUT! I vector illustrated all the girls and the couch at the bottom, which I think is pretty damn cool!

Magazine Spreads

The final piece of the magazine project, actual spreads. I wanted to get a steam punkish feel to it so I grunged up the font a bit (the first good use of Bleeding Cowboys!) but the first one seemed too simple for a punk article, so I did the second one without thinking about repercussions of putting ink blots on the photo, or cutting off the headline at the page end, and it worked out much more nicely.

Magazine Cover/ads

For this project, I did a magazine cover and ad. I felt adventurous and did 2 ads, both for Roxy jeans. I liked the initial logo for Roxy, but the professor didn't like it, so I had to change it to the one you see now. Overall, I am pretty happy with them.

Thanks Reina for posing for the cover

Thanks Samah for posing for the ads

BRM Card

This is my BRM card for Sex, Politics, and You. The card is set up so that you can rip the top and bottom sections apart allowing you to send in the top card and keep the bottom card for directions to the art gallery and the sexy vectored lady. The whole card was done using only 2 spot colors (not counting the BRM portion which is black by postal regulation) making the entire work super cheap for production!

Post Card Design

For this project, I had to make business postcards that used only two colors total for the front and back. I chose to use Trans-Siberian Airlines (a company I made up) because I have always wanted to use Russian for a logo. I got inspiration for this from Lowbrow art, particularly Shag, for the stylization of the people. I like how it turned out overall.

business card designs

For this project, I was asked to make 2 business cards. One with a normal 3.5"x2" layout and the other a nontraditional layout. The first normal layout I thought was boring by itself (it had blue filled in where the liquid in the beaker would be) so I instead decided to die cut the liquid out and place cellophane between the cards before placing them together. Allowing you to see through the card.

The test tube was simply to get a unique shape that still fits into a wallet. I liked the idea also since there are many ways you could display it whimsically on a desk.

more random photoshop

Decided to do a quick collage of free stock photos... first the finished product then the photos it contains.

2nd bored project

The second one I did was just create a movie poster. Since the kids were doing one, I thought I would too, just since I have never done one since high school marketing class. Also because if a movie hasnt yet been made featuring Bruce Willis and Pam Greire, it should.

More bored stuff

So, I get bored in my class/ study hall when the kids don't need help, so I made an environment and a movie poster. Each took about one day of classes to do.

The first one I took 2 pictures and an ink blob and put them together.

Immortalizing Betty White

So, I got bored during one of my JBA classes since the kids were being good, and I decided to see what Betty White would look like young again. Gave me some good practice with the liquify tool. I think I smugged it a bit too much when I started falling asleep in the middle of it, but looking at some of her pictures on google from when she was younger, it looks pretty accurate.

The edited photo is on top and the original is on bottom.

Self Promo

So, for my Vis Com final I had to make a self promotion piece that had at least 4 of my works in it. I chose to make bookmarks and a handy dandy case that they can be mailed to prospective clients in. Pretty self explanatory, I vectored the image of myself on the front of the box and each of the bookmarks has me attempting to be witty on it.

CD Case

Here is the bra case that everyone has been wondering about. Sorry the photography is kinda crappy, but if you are really interested you can see them in person over the summer, WHICH STARTS IN 5 DAYS! Also, this was my first attempt at embroidery... by hand... on lace, so gimme a break :P

CD design

For this project, I had to redesign a CD entirely. I chose to redo the Dresden Dolls "A is for Accident" CD. While the music was good, the art design was god awful... So I redesigned the cover, booklet, and case itself. I decided to theme it around common household accidents that would seem stupid, but after googling for a list, they were on the top 100 (for infants and adults together). I then redesigned the case out of a bra and thong set that I found at Wal Mart for $10. It was my first ever attempt at embroidery so it isnt that great, but hey, I embroidered a bra, that was way more work than required for this project. Also, because the bra couldn't stand on end, I had to make a box for it too, so I essentially made a case for my case. Anyway, I am fairly happy with the results, I ended up working on this for 14 hours straight one day and was actually having fun with it.

The first photo is the original cover, the following are the booklet spreads and the last is the back of the case case. Pictures of the bra case will be posted when I get it back from the prof.

Thanks to (in order of pictures)
Samah
Jen
Hannah
Reina
Rachel
Katrina
Huyen

collage

For this project, we had to create two collages and include words in them that opposite each other. My words were decency and corruption. I think I have had more fun doing this project than any other since we had to shoot all our own photography. The skywriting text was a pain to make though... Now if I can just get these bad boys mounted before passing out I will be good. Oh and sorry Mark, once again the composition with you in it was not chosen by the prof to be a better one...