Useless Sports Information - I have played sports all my life, from baseball to golf to volleyball. I also tend to get injured a lot . When we were told we had to make an informational poster about anything we wanted, I knew that I had to combine my passion for sports and the potential injuries that happen to create this design.
GET OFF! Exploring the Pleasure Principle - The Museum of Sex had an opening a year or so ago called "GET OFF! Exploring the Pleasure Principle." My job was to create four direct mailer postcards that would be sent out each week until the night of the exhibit.
The colors for the exhibit were orange and white, and I was only allowed to use text on the postcards. I wanted to show pleasure through the type, so I decided to have each postcard progress from meeting another person to an orgy.
The white postcard is the back of each postcard.
A Tale of Two Cities - I had to design a promotional poster for four different books, using the first paragraphs from each one. This is from "A Tale of Two Cities" by Charles Dickens.
The American Dream - The greatest journalist ever. This was by far my favorite design to do. It might have been because "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" is one of the greatest books ever written (to me.)
Or the Whale. - Herman Melville's "Moby Dick, or the Whale," immediately made me think of when I was younger and my grandma gave me a copy for Christmas. I mixed the playful side of my childhood with the intelligent writing of Herman Melville to create this piece.
Dead as a Door-nail - "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens. While it is a story that ends with holiday cheer, the beginning of the book is dark and grim. I wanted to combine the two in this piece.
Il Bacio: Tattoo & Piercing - For one of our projects, we had to go around Farmville, VA and find a business owner who would be willing to let us redo their logo for them. I chose Il Bacio Tattoo and Piercing.
I used a regular looking guy for the poster because of the shows like LA Ink and Miami Ink. All you ever see walking into their parlors is plastic and silicon. Il Bacio caters to the common man, so thats how I decided to promote.
Impact - we were told that we had to take a font and make a poster about it, showing some of its different uses. While everyone in the class were choosing typefaces like helvetica and futura, I decided to take a chance with an underused and not very popular typeface, impact. Impact is a very bold and very heavy typeface, so i wanted to treat it that way. It is not a font that you would normally use in body text, but the font we chose is the font we had to use in the body type.
There's A Snake In My Coat - I love this project because it is the first project that really helped me find my style and technique. I love using the brush tool to draw something and then color it in with different shapes that I created with the pen tool.
The 1st Annual Men's Garlic Festival - Each bulb of garlic was created using a different tool in Illustrator. The pen tool for the first, brush tool for the second, and pencil for the third. I used the pen tooled bulb on the brochure so that there would be a nice contrast in positive and negative space.
The Cheese Monkeys Book Sleeve - One of the greatest designers of our time, Chip Kidd, wrote two books about a graphic design student. We had to create new book sleeves for the two books he wrote. In this first book, one of the characters is a very eccentric and very sarcastic art student who makes fun during critiques and thinks she is better than anyone else. The talk about cheese monkeys, but never exactly say what one is. I used Chip Kidd's crazy style and added my own style to it to make a very fun, simple cover.
The Learners Book Sleeve - This is the 2nd book of the series called "The Learners." In the book the main character accidently kills himself by popping quite a few pills, so I decided to make a pill bottle for the book sleeve. With alot of Chip Kidd's designs, he will do random things with the text like cut it in half so that two ends need to be put together to be able to read it.
The Real Show Competition: Zippo - For the Real Show Competition, one of the projects was to create a magazine ad and internet advertisement bar for Zippo's 75th anniversary.
Word Describes The Word - The word we chose had to describe the word.
Crawl: I immediately thought of ants, and "crawl" written really small and used in abundance gives the impression of ants.
Collide: the two l's in collide do exactly what the word means. The collide with each other and almost separate the word into two.
Chase: I wanted to have fun with this one. It reminds me of when the cartoons would be chasing each other through random doors and never catch each other.
Identity Package: Insouciant - We each had to create an identity package using a word that describes us. I chose insouciant.
Main Entry: insouciant
Part of Speech: adjective
Definition: easygoing, casual
Synonyms: airy, breezy, buoyant, carefree, careless, free and easy, gay, happy-go-lucky*, heedless, jaunty, lighthearted, nonchalant, sunny*, thoughtless, unconcerned, untroubled, unworried
Community - When you think of the word community, a gun does not usually come to mind. If you see the word community and then throw a gun in with it, it completely transforms the word into a meaning that is very true but also very unexpected.
Defend - Like community, defend has one meaning that can mean a million different things. Your first thought of defend probably wouldn't be a condom, but in reality, it fights a fight a lot of times when people want to get intimate or just have fun.
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