Design Culture Now Poster - Typography Project

 For this typographic class project, we were required to design a poster only from the required body copy given to us, which included the information on each artist, place of the event, and the title "Design Culture Now". These are a few of my top designs before finalizing the top image for this class to turn in to the teacher for a final critique and grade on the project. Each design is ONLY made from text, no other shapes or forms.

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Mickey String Art

String art of the silhouette of Mickey Mouse's head. Stained the wood to the perfect color then applied nails and string.

Read It, Write It, Express It

 Legibility, Readability, and Expression

Working with typefaces that show legibility, readability, and expression in a readable form and expressive image. These four images go from being able to easily read all the information to the information not being legible at all and forming an image.

Alternative Energy Advertising Campaign - Class Project

 

For this class project students were tasked with designing an advertisement campaign for NV Energy that shows them as being environmentally sensitive. We were required to focus the campaign on one alternative energy source. and come up with our own headline(s), bodycopy and layouts for all required advertising pieces. It has to be emphasized that the concepts are what’s important, without a strong concept and theme no computer wizardry will make a mediocre concept work. 

Four different media types will be used for this campaign, they are:

1. Magazine advertisement, 7.75” x 11.625”

2. Billboard, 18’ tall x 48’ wide (scale 1/4” = 1’)

3. Super King Panel Bus Vinyl, 129” x 120” (scale 1” = 1’)

4. Website Banner Advertisement, 300 px X 250 px

Students must then start the research process, research NV Energy, the customers of NV Energy, and ways that a large company like NV Energy is or could become more environmentally sensitive. I chose to focus my campaign on the environment and how NV Energy could harness the power of the sun in a safe way when disposing of any extra or unused hardware used in making solar panels.

Stay home and wash your hands!

Mickey says "STAY HOME!" so that this virus can pass and the parks can be reopened :)

While the spread of the Coronavirus has been slowed down people are still getting sick and loosing their lives to the virus. Continue to practice social distancing and only go out if absolutely necessary.

Musical Infographic

 

Musical Infographic depicting how one should spend their time during an individual practice session.

Social Issue Poster- Irresponsible Dog Breeding

Irresponsible dog breeders include what people call backyard breeding and puppy mills.  Puppy mills are commercial breeding facilities that mass-produce dogs (and cats in cat mills) for sale through pet stores (~90%) and directly to consumers through classified ads and the internet. These mills contain over hundreds of dogs that are kept in confined, overcrowded cages with little shelter from weather and are not cleaned regularly, forcing the animals to sit and sleep in their own excrement.  Because these animals are treated like cash crops, the sick or dying animals receive little or no veterinary care.  Adult animals are continuously bred until they can no longer produce a litter, they are then discarded and destroyed.  Both kittens and puppies will be taken away from the mother at too early of an age, resulting in serious behavior problems.

“Backyard breeder” refers to dog breeders that have little to no knowledge or experience when it comes to responsibly breeding their dog.  Like the puppy mills, they are looking to make a quick profit, and therefore, will often breed their own ‘family dog,’ but they will do so without taking any proper precautions, such as a genetic health test.  Mating two dogs with an unknown genetic and behavioral history can result in serious health and behavioral issues for the puppies produced, leaving them unwanted and unhealthy.  While backyard breeders aren’t considered to be as terrible and unethical as puppy and cat mills, these are still the signs of an irresponsible breeder. Neither of these types of breeders have the best interest of the animals in mind when breeding two animals together and should be avoided at all costs when looking for a new family member.

Illustrator Pen Tool Vector Drawing

Vector drawing of a ducky image created in Adobe Illustrator with the single use of the pen tool.

Typographic Layout

Two typographic layouts containing the word TYPOGRAPHY. One in full hue of color, the other in monochrome. Created in Adobe Illustrator, fonts used are Orbitron and Quantify.