Hand-Made Book.

For our drawing class, our final was to choose a story from a list provided and make a handmade book with our own illustrations based off our own interpretation of the story. I chose the "Fox and the Horse," there are 8 illustrations altogether using watercolor pencils. The front cover was embroidered and hand-sewn.

My favorite song. Roky Erickson, "For You."

Ragbrai Event Poster and Logo.

This poster is for an annual bicycle event called RAGBRAI, where people ride across the state of IOWA. It's rumored that by the end of the week you actually gain weight rather than losing it, from all the eating, drinking/partying that takes place. For my poster, I wanted to look at the social aspect of the event, because you meet and spend so much time with new people and you can make what you want of it. I chose yellow because it takes place in the summer and is all outdoors. I chose the DIY hand-done look to compliment the ragbrai rider and culture.

New Media Final Posters.

This was a group project for our new media class, where we were paired up with students from other disciplines. Our particular group had one publishing arts student, one photographer and two graphic designers. The task was to create two posters for our college that would be hung throughout the school for at least ten years and the winner will receive $500. So far, it's been narrowed down to six groups from about 25, ours is one of them!




A little bit about the design, the hand (writing) image was used to symbolize hard work, effort and study. The stack of books symbolize knowledge and education. The lined notebook paper in the background and hand-lettering was used to remind us of note-taking.

Poster, Post-Card (front and back) and Ticket.

This was for our illustrator class, it's kinda silly and outrageous. This event was for a birthday/show at this tiny little, dark and dated bar in Ballard. I wanted to make a poster that matched the feel of the bar by using very dated colors and fonts. We had to include an effect on our title, which is why I chose the flag effect. This is a poster, a post-card, and a ticket to the event.






These were made in illustrator.

Today is a good day!!!

Our drawing teacher announced the Modern Shed winner and it was ME!! So crazy, I still can't believe it, there were so many good posters from both classes.
My poster will be professionally screen-printed in an edition of about a 100 and will be used for their company's art pieces that they will sell.
Check em out.
http://www.modern-shed.com/

Lou Dorfsman Poster. 15x20.

Here is my Lou Dorfsman (1918-2008) poster that I made for 'Graphic Art History' and also some of photos of him and his work. Lou was CBS's in-house graphic designer for over 40 years and has been called the greatest corporate designer in the world. He was also friends with big names like Saul Bass, Paul Rand, and Milton Glaser. The big huge wall mural of type shown in the pictures above is 38 1/2 feet wide and 8 1/2 feet tall and was located in the CBS cafeteria and dubbed the "gastrotypographicalassemblage," pretty radical. Kind-of-a-badass. ANyhoo, hope you like it!

Presentation Day.

With Thanksgiving weekend and finals, I've been really busy, but I'll be posting stuff soon!! This was me yesterday about to give a presentation on the awesome Lou Dorfsman.

Veggie Apparel. Logo and Symbols.

final CD Slip cover.

I must say I was impressed with the super 80's 3D effects in illustrator, hope I'm not alone here.

CD Cover samples.

Our illustrator class has given us a week to make a cd or dvd cover using different tools and tricks regarding text...
Text wrap= text wrapped around an image
Text columns= creating atleast two columns of text that are linked together.
Word distortion= warping a word using the different effect tools

We could either make up a new band/movie or redo one that already exists. I decided to go with the cd and base it on consignment. I should probably have made a scary dvd though, after discovering how creepy (and cheesy) text can be when warped. I took advantage of this and distorted the ''consignment" on the front cover to compliment the "scary" image of Lucas.
I'm not sure if I'll keep 'working' these, so here is my cd so far.

Modern-Shed final illustrations and sketch.

For our drawing class, we're making an art piece for a local company (modern-shed) that can be whatever we want it to be and out of any medium. Both first year classes will turn in their piece and there will be a winner selected by the company. Whoever wins will get their piece professionally printed by a bellevue screen-printing company, I really hope I win!! There are a lot of great ideas though, I can't wait to see everyone's. Here are my final illustrations. I'm having a hard time picking the one I want to go with.







modern-shed sketch
http://www.modern-shed.com/

Bird Illustration Color Edit.

Sketches.

Tension Poster.

In class, we made random shapes and chose one that we wanted to create a whole poster out of. When we were finished, we had to look at the composition and choose one word to best describe it. I chose tension and placed it where it made the most sense using the ideas of gestalt: the whole is greater than the parts.

Illustrator Color Assignment.

For this assignment, we practiced using the 'live trace,' 'live paint' and also learned how to find complimentary colors using the color guides. We had to draw either a butterfly or a bird, I was torn between the two, but ended up going with my old-man bird sketch. The first image is my black and white pen sketch, the second is colored with my made-up color group, the third has the monochromatic and complimentary color groups (to my first color group) and the last image is a color-edit of the complimentary color group. The CMYK numbers are also included.

Howard Pyle Poster.

15 x 20







This is an informational poster that I did for my Graphic Art History class. Our assignment was to create a 15x20 poster or another piece of wall art that covers our particular subject and there must be both text and images included. My subject was Howard Pyle who was a famous illustrator, author and teacher. For this project, I decided to make a 3-D diorama of his life, the text on the sides are lettered and match up with small letters next to the objects in the diorama to explain what the objects are for. Attached are some before photos and the final poster.

Rockets.

This is my first 'adobe illustrator' assignment of rockets. The assignment was to make three rockets and have them all point towards the moon using a pencil tool, with maybe some stars or planets included. Oh and yes, the rocket-fire is bacon.