This actual piece is 35 inches long, eight inches in height, and is a seven-fold accordion brochure. This is another typographical project using only glyphs and the typeface(s) chosen – with a limit of two. I discovered how much I love Archer and how unique the font family is compared to most typefaces. The typeface really [...]
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dars audit : typography
Posted in design projects, education, fonts, psu, typography, Uncategorized, tagged fonts, graphic design, PSU, typeface archer, typefaces, typography on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
runemeister cards
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged graphic design, PSU, runemeister cards, typography on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Selecting a letter from the alphabet, and using the information on that letter from calligrapher Lloyd Reynold’s book, My Dear Runemeister: A Voyage Through the Alphabet, students were given another typographical project. Design could only be achieved through the use of glyphs and letters from our chosen font families, which students picked from a provided [...]
rex ray biozine
Posted in Artists, design projects, education, psu, tagged artist, biozine, graphic design, PSU, rex ray on June 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
When asked to choose someone to do a biozine project on, my mind shouted Rex Ray! The project gave me a reason to purchase his book, Rex Ray: Art + Design. This was a book that Chris Maier, an instructor and department head of MHCC’s graphic design program, turned me onto a couple years ago. [...]
narrative design
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged graphic design, illustration, narrative, PSU on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Have you ever had less than one week to come up with an illustrated narrative? If you’re a designer, you probably have! This was definitely a quick turnaround project. Short term projects require instantaneous decision-making and provide proof that we can trust going with some of our initial ideas. They provide an opportunity for us [...]
t-shirt design
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged graphic design, illustration, PSU, t-shirts, threadless on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Time to design three tees with a theme for Threadless. Wanting to surround myself with delicate and positive imagery, I was immediately drawn to yoga wear. This project showed me how much I’d like to design yoga and children’s clothing: zen mama, zen baby, yum! Zen, zen, zen! Lotus collection: Top design: balance : Stylized [...]
wpa poster
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged graphic design, illustration, poster, PSU, wpa on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The goal was to project unity in the design of this poster, with this one specifically targeting girls and women. I’d like to continue the series of connection posters to include men, children, animals and our eco-system, signifying connection within the groups, as well as our unity as a whole. I was inspired by an [...]
book of lil red and the magic hood
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged children's storybook, graphic design, lil red, PSU on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve often been baffled at stories told to children. The brothers Grimm and their tales of wolves, trolls and witches who eat children. Lovely! So I decided it was time to offer a twist of tale of Lil Red. In my story, Lil Red uses her magic hood to enchant the wolf and instead of [...]
designing stamps
Posted in design projects, education, psu, tagged graphic design, project, PSU, stamps on June 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
At first, I lightly considered illustrating colorful fruit as a stamp theme. But once the idea of doing a series of endangered species popped into my head, the direction was clear. I considered selecting patterns of endangered animals’ fur, feather, scale or hide, as shown on the bottom right samples, but instead I decided to [...]
indiana state fair posters
Posted in design, education, psu, tagged graphic design, indiana state fair, poster, PSU on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
The left poster was my first design solution for an Indiana State Fair poster. I wanted to incorporate hues of green and rectangular shapes to represent Indiana farmland. The circular bursts signify a time of celebration and fireworks. Unfortunately, this poster did not meet criteria given by my professor. (Oops! Must have had a mind [...]
pick a state, any state
Posted in design, education, green, psu, tagged graphic design, green, indiana, PSU on June 13, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Did you know that Indiana is a huge producer of bio-fuel? Fall 2009, students chose states, or maybe they chose us, and from there we did a lot of research in order to create a state logo, variable license plates with a theme and a poster for our state’s State Fair. Green, or ecology minded [...]
