Photography Fun

So, this I am just getting started on my latest Graphic Design III project. It will be a compilation of photographs; most of them involving body paint and text. The text will read "Design that needed guts from the creator and still carries the ghost of these guts in the final execution". This is the motto of Stefan Sagmeister, the graphic designer in which the book is based on and inspired by. Can't wait to shoot more!

Bounce

Typography
Typeface Design
"Bounce"

App Icon

The first app is inspired by the word "x-ray". The app would function as a database of movies. It would include basic information about the movies, trivia, movie trailers, and photographs. The main function of the app would be to provide behind-the-scenes information. 

The second app was inspired by the word "swim". The app would function as a fitness planner and diary. The user would log his/her swim time and distance, and the app would generate personal plans according to each user's goals. 

The third app was inspired by the word "palace". The app would function as a finder for shows and other entertainment in the Las Vegas, Nevada area. It would use GPS to locate the closest shows, and provide information such as directions to the venue, prices of the tickets (as well as the ability to purchase directly from the app), and nearby restaurants and bars.

Waffles VS Spaghetti

The assignment was to make infographics of opposing sides... What better topic than the battle of the sexes?

These posters provide information about the psychological differences between men and women. They explain why men's brains are like waffles, and women's brains are like spaghetti.

Each section of a man's life, or each of his thoughts, are in specific boxes, bounded by walls that he must hurdle over to get to the next thought.

Women, however, have no trouble jumping from thought to thought in a not so orderly fashion as everything in her life touches everything else.

Real facts support this comical phenomenon of Waffles VS Spaghetti

This is the first of many to come! 

For this project I will be doing a series of photographs, most including text and all including body paint. I'm taking the trial-and-error approach to this particular project, as I am not very experienced in body painting. 

For the next shoot, I will be using a different painting technique. More posts soon to come!

Class: Publications and Layout

Objective: Choose an author, create 3 book covers. This is one of the three that I chose (the others are still in progress). Roald Dahl, author of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and James and the Giant Peach was also a great poet. Although the audience of his novels and poems tend to be children, Dahl took a darker and yet humorous approach to some of the famous folk tales that we are all familiar with. I chose to design three books of poetry by Dahl, each with a different folk tale as the theme. The comic book portrayal of the characters helps to describe their personality and actions in Dahl's versions of each story. 

Here is the link to the poem Litte Red Riding Hood and the Wolf. 

Class: Publications and Layout

Objective: Create a possible cover for the Missouri Southern art department annual publication called Blixt. This book contains the work of the students who are currently enrolled in the art department. 

Class: Graphic Design/Digital Photography

Objective: Capture a self portrait of how you see you, not how others see you. Use studio lighting for this set up.

Class: Graphic Design/Digital Photography

Assignment: Photograph a glass of "champagne" in a studio setting. Create a photo that really sells the product.

Graphic Design I

Objective: Create a set of 7 symbols. I chose traditional tattoos for the theme of this assignment.