East Side Book

This assignment was working off of the postcard series in our study of the East Side. I wanted to try and show the different points of view that people have about the East Side. The material in the book has many different opinions of the East so I wanted to use lots of different texture pictures in the book and I wanted to juxtapose the cleanliness of the text with the messiness of the lines to somewhat recreate the tension that exists in East Austin as a result of gentrification.

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Animated Postcard

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This project was the next step in locating place. I took two of the postcards that I made and turned them into an animation. If you click on one of the squares textures will come across your screen and take you to the next card. If you click on the squares on this card it will take you back to the first post card.

East Side Postcards

This assignment asked us to create a set of postcards about the East side of Austin. My concept focused on the buildings of the East side and I tried to mix textures and vectors to 'rebuild' the buildings in a new way.

Found Type Poster

For this assignment we were asked to create a typeface out of found objects. After trying out different mediums I chose to work with eye glasses to create my font. After destroying the glasses and creating the letters I designed the poster around the five senses and tried to incorporate the other senses in the final design.

Idenity

For this project we were asked to create a poster and three admission stickers for a museum that was based on an art style from the past. I chose Bauhaus and used the simplicity of the style to create the poster. There are three stickers, one for student, one for adults, and one for a child's admission and those are identified through the red square, blue circle, and yellow triangle, the three shapes the Bauhaus ideals were based around. The poster says form follows function because that was one of the mottos of the style that helped define it.

Activity Booklet

This project called for us to design a children's activity booklet for a program called 5 minutes a week. The program teaches kids about fair trade in 5 minutes a week.

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Kitchen of Meaning

This is a poster that we were assigned to make for a gallery called The Kitchen of Meaning. Each student was assigned a word and had to design a poster that was a visual example of the meaning of the word. My word was dissonance which is a tension or clash resulting from the combination of 2 disharmonious or unsuitable elements. I used lines to mimic sound waves to highlight the musical meaning behind dissonance.