Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts
Showing posts with label graphic design. Show all posts
5/24/12
Wedding Set
The following is a series of items that I designed for a recent wedding, including the save the date card, the r.s.v.p. card, the wedding invitation, and the program.
Human Organ Posters
These three posters are satirical advertisements for an imaginary company that sells human organs. The organs are made up of elements from my photographs, drawings, and collages, as well as scanned objects.
Dog Rescue Design
This is an ongoing project through which I am combining my passion for dogs and dog rescue with my love of graphic design. While researching, I found lots of information to help people choose the right pure-bred dog, but very few resources to help people select the right rescue and mixed-breed dog.
I decided to design a quiz to serve as an aid for people looking to adopt a rescue dog through a shelter or rescue organization. I did so by breaking dogs into four basic types. Following the quiz is a description of each of the dog types, along with information about who they are best suited for, how to identify them, and more. Currently the quiz and information are in pamphlet form, though I hope to design an app soon, as well.
I also created a series of stickers featuring the faces and names of dogs needing homes, as well as the local rescue organization or shelter website where that dog can be found. I then placed the stickers around the city. In the future, I would like to leave pages of stickers laying around in public, with a note telling people to spread them around.
Below are the unfolded pamphlet pages, the folded pamphlet, and the stickers.
I decided to design a quiz to serve as an aid for people looking to adopt a rescue dog through a shelter or rescue organization. I did so by breaking dogs into four basic types. Following the quiz is a description of each of the dog types, along with information about who they are best suited for, how to identify them, and more. Currently the quiz and information are in pamphlet form, though I hope to design an app soon, as well.
I also created a series of stickers featuring the faces and names of dogs needing homes, as well as the local rescue organization or shelter website where that dog can be found. I then placed the stickers around the city. In the future, I would like to leave pages of stickers laying around in public, with a note telling people to spread them around.
Below are the unfolded pamphlet pages, the folded pamphlet, and the stickers.
5/23/12
Tool Bugs
Tool Bugs are functional, transportable, displayable, and aesthetically appealing, two-in-one robot bug tools. The Tool Bug is a hypothetical product that brings together a number of my favorite things, including household tools, robots, and infusing everyday items with visual interest. Shown below are:
- Four Tool Bugs
- A poster promoting the Tool Bugs
- The cover of a catalog for the Tool Bugs
- A link to the full catalog
The wack rapper meal
Inspired by lyrics from rapper K-rino, this is hypothetical packaging for a seven-piece wack rapper meal. Each food item is named after a particular type of wack, or bad, rapper, and includes a visual example of a current rapper.
Educational fork cubes
This brief project involved the creation of four wooden cubes that are both educational and design-conscious. Each cube includes images and information related to one type of fork, including how to identify the fork and what it is used for. The squares below are the images that made up the sides of the cubes.
9/28/11
A gluten-free guide to Austin's food trailers (cell phone application)
Independently owned food trailers are a rapidly expanding industry in Austin. For entrepreneurs, they represent an accessible pathway to self-ownership. For customers, they provide a quick and affordable dining option in a rough economy.
This proposed cell phone application is a user-friendly guide to Austin's food trailers for people with gluten and sugar sensitivities, or for those on a low-carbohydrate diet.
The application allows users to narrow their search by location and type of dietary restriction. Selecting a particular food trailer brings up basic information about the business, including their address and the type of food they serve. The user may then to choose to view the menu items that fit their dietary specifications, or return to the list of food trailers.
Parking proposal
These are my contributions to a group project outlining a hypothetical proposal to improve the parking situation at St. Edwards University. The group decided on a tiered parking system with a valet option. I was in charge of the implementation portion of the proposal, which included:
1. Color-coded parking lot signs
2. A poster to promote the new parking system
3. A newspaper ad
4. A sign for the valet stand
Locating place: a motion piece
This is a short motion piece that attempts to capture the mood of a particular neighborhood. The objects and images were taken directly from the neighborhood and re-framed in a new context.
Locating place book
The idea behind the locating place books is to address the general question of what creates, identifies, and defines cities and places, and then focus in on a particular neighborhood.
In order to reflect the idea of the city as an ever evolving entity with no beginning and no end within the actual structure of the book, I used a book structure that also had no beginning or end. It is essentially a wooden dowel with three book sections hanging on metal rings, allowing the pages to be viewed in many different combinations, without a significant opening or closing point.
How to change a tire
This design piece outlines the basic steps required to change a tire. The idea behind this project was to create a form of instructional design that is both useful and aesthetically appealing. In its final form, the instructions are laminated and functional. The poster can fit under a car floor mat and and can also be used to kneel on while changing the tire.
Austin AIDS website header
This is a header that I created for a hypothetical redesign of the Austin AIDS support website. It incorporates the Austin skyline with repetitions of a new logo.
Freshwater conservation concept map
The idea behind the concept map is to plot out essential information about a given subject in a manner that is easily understood and visually appealing. The topic in this case is fresh water use.
Weather report motion piece
The purpose of this project was to create an animated weather report for four cities over a three day period. There are three reports within the movie, each presenting the same weather information categorized in a different manner. The information in this video is organized by location, population, and alphabetical order, respectively.
Dada buttons
The idea behind this project was to create buttons for a hypothetical museum exhibit on the Dada movement. The designs include visual qualities derived from the original movement, with a more modern take. Also included is a promotion poster for the exhibit.
9/27/11
Amendment postcards
These postcards are composite postcards illustrating the amendment prohibiting cruel and unusual punishment.
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