ME A DESIGN PORTFOLIO BY LANEY LYNN
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KEEP ME WARM LECTURE SERIES W IS FOR WOMAN
SILKSCREEN SONIC YOUTH TRUMP INEQUALITY UPSIDEDOWN AMERICA IS THERE A HOME HERE
PACKAGING/ BRANDING/CATALOG SCRAPS LIGHTBULB BABIE, A TYPEFACE AMERICAN BEAUTY BOOK
EXPERIMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPOSITIONS SWEET BITTER SHIRT
VISUAL LITERACY VISUAL DIARY
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ABOUT ME The design I do I feel like is a part of me and is a way to talk about myself, so I feel like I should include an about me. My name is Laney Lynn, I’m a designer and visual artist from Dallas, Texas. I’m also a woman, defender of social issues, a traveler, an investigator, a music enthusiast, a friend, a lover, and so many other things. This affects how I design and how I navigate and communicate in the visual world. This year I have learned a lot, and there is so much more to come.
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PHYSICAL TYPOGRAPHY POSTER KEEP ME WARM, 18”X 24” WOOL, PHOTOGRAPHY
KEEP ME WARM
I wanted my poster to have a feeling. Intimacy is present in a lot of my work and I wanted to convey that with my material. I think textiles hold a lot a feeling as we interact with them every day in very personal ways. I started by crafting each letter in Trade Gothic using loose wool.
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LECTURE SERIES POSTER
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OpEd Page and for almost 30 Thursday, December 4 ose years with the New York 6:30 pm s Book Review. Currently, he Jake Barton is Principal and o-chair of the MFA Designer Founder of Local Projects, an Author Department, Special experience design and strategy tant to the President of SVA firm for museums, brands and ew Programs, and writes the public spaces based in New als column for the New York York, NY. His work focuses Times Book Review. on storytelling and engaging audiences through emotion and technology. As the head of the Media Design team for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum, Barton led a team of designers to create multi-media experiences that focus on using Tuesday, October 9 visitor’s own stories as well as the 7:30 pm use of algorithms to curate up-tothe moment journalism around Stefan Sagmeister is a New the post 9/11 world. York-based graphic designer and 18
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ART DIRECTOR, AUTHOR, EDITOR, TURER, CURATOR
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Thursday, September 12 6:00 pm
Heller wears many hats. For ears he was an art director at ew York Times, originally on OpEd Page and for almost 30
Wednesday, November 2 6:00 pm
Abbott Miller is an American graphic designer and writer, and a partner at Pentagram, which he joined in 1999. Miller’s projects are often concerned with the cultural role of design and the public life of the written word. At Pentagram he leads a team designing identities, exhibitions, environmental graphics, books, magazines, and web and interactive projects. He is the designer and editor of 2wice magazine.
JAKE BARTON LOCAL PROJECTS
SIGNERS SIGNERS AUTHORS AUTHORS
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LECTURE SERIES
LECTURE SERIES POSTER DESIGNERS AS AUTHORS, 18”X 24”
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“W” IS FOR WOMAN
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TYPOGRAPHIC LETTER POSTER “W IS FOR WOMAN”, 16x20 We were assigned a specfic letter to re-draw and incorporate into a poster that embodies the spirit and form of the letter we were given. Mine was the letter W.
W IS FOR WOMAN
PUT THE WOMAN IN W. WILD WET WIELDING WONDERFUL WOMAN.
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PUT THE WOMAN IN W. WILD WET WIELDING WONDERFUL WOMAN.
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SONIC YOUTH
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SONIC YOUTH
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SONIC YOUTH
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PUNK POSTER SONIC YOUTH/ERASE ERRATA 18”X 24”, SILKSCREEN
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AMERICA UPSIDE DOWN
UPSIDEDOWN AMERICA
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UPSIDEDOWN AMERICA
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UPSIDEDOWN AMERICA
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TRUMP INEQUALITY
GENERAL STRIKE DAY
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SILKSCEREN
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NATIONAL STRIKE DAY “TRUMP INEQUALITY” T-SHIRTS SILKSCREEN This was a protest project that took place on General Strike Day on February 17, 2017. It was a protest or general strike against things going on in our country at the time, namely the new president Donald Trump.
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NATIONAL STRIKE DAY: EXPERIENCE ZINE 4” X 5”, 30 PAGES
GENERAL STRIKE DAY ZINE
I saw this day in hot magenta, as I do a lot of things. There was so much energy, so much passion from the people at washington square park. Everyone was gathered for different reasons but for the same cause. I just felt pink about it.
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IS THERE A HOME HERE?
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SILKSCREEN ON FOUND MATERIAL “IS THERE A HOME HERE?” 9”X9”, SILKSCREEN, HAND TOWEL
IS THERE A HOME HERE?
For this project, we had to print on a found object, and think about how that object and what we were printing on it related to one another to create a thought provoking dialogue.
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OH, BABIE. TYPEFACE DESIGN
BABIE FONT
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TYPEFACE DESIGN “BABIE” The typeface “Babie” is an italic script font that I designed based the on the nature of chisel tip markers. It comes in two styles, the original chisel and rounded.
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BABIE (ROUNDED)
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69 TYPERFACE APPLICATION TRUE & CO LINGERIE RE-BRAND True & Co. is an online lingerie company based in Los Angeles, California. They specialize in comfortable, high quality lingerie and pairing women with the perfect bra and perfect size. Because it is based online, the way the company can make the biggest physical impression is through they’re delivery. I wanted to take this into consideration and create a fun and different packaging and delivery experience through the re-branding.
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EXHIBITION CATALOG : “SCRAPS” AT THE COOPER HEWITT 8”X10”, 46 PAGES
SCRAPS
The exhbit “Scraps” at the cooper hewitt is comprised of various objects from their textile collection that are upcycled and put to creative reuse. I wanted this catalog to reflect the style of these objects- linens, cotton, silk, in that it is light and airy and very clean. There’s die-cuts in the cover and the chapter openers to reveal the texture of the fabrics.
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CATALOG DESIGN
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LIGHTBULB PACKAGE RE-DESIGN “INDUSTRIAL AND PROGRESSIVE” Generic and brand-name lightbulb packages are often times poorlyl designed and contain unnecessary or repetetive information. We were told to re-design a lightbulb package using two words assigned to us. The words I was meant to capture with these designs were progressive and industrial.
PACKAGING
LIGHT BULB
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IF AMERICAN BEAUTY WAS A BOOK, IT WOULD NEED A BOOK JACKET
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BOOK JACKET DESIGN “AMERICAN BEAUTY” For this book jacket I wanted to use the emblem of the rose from the movie American Beauty but reimagine it. While this movie is romantic it also has a dark side, so I wanted to work with the idea of blood as well. I created a blood stain to look like a paper rose, to hold the two symbols.
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WHAT DID YOU DO THIS MONTH? A VISUAL DIARY.
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VISUAL DIARY A CREATIVE RESPONSE TO MY DAYS 2/12/2107 - 3/18/2017
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VISUAL DIARY
VISUAL DIARY 2/27/2017, “HOMESICK”
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VISUAL DIARY 3/8/2017, “TIME TO MYSELF”
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THE UNEXPECTED: EXPERIMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN
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EXPERIMENTAL GRAPHIC DESIGN COMPOSITIONS/DIGITAL COLLAGE
COMPOSITIONS
These are excercises in composing using found and appropriated imagry. The idea was to think creatively about the shapes and colors in these images and how we could use them to create a design. This is a small collection of the 400 compostion practices we had to do for class.
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COMPOSITIONS
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SWEET BITTER
Sweet-Bitter is a curated, 400 page book of the experiemental compostitons we made in class, existnetial writing, love letters from simone de beuvior’s relationships, personal photos, nonsquiters, and modern artist. The theme and concept behind the book is a visual experience of the soft and harsh. I wanted to take the compositions we created in class, which were derived from images with no significance to me, and give them meaning and feeling. I wanted to make people to feel something, and apply the images to this book in a way that was thoughtfully directed yet spotaneous, and evoke that was reminenscent of a love lost, a torn heart, or an identity crises that is both liberating and taxing.
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN BOOK “SWEET-BITTER” PAGES 48-49
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN BOOK “SWEET-BITTER” PAGES 314-315
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN BOOK “SWEET-BITTER” PAGES 90-91
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EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN BOOK “SWEET-BITTER” PAGES 128-129
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A BAND CALLED SHIRT
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MUSIC BRANDING “SHIRT” ALBUM COVERS AND POSTERS
SHIRT
“Shirt” is a concept band that was made up to help build an identity and aesthetic from scratch. The first step of this project was to take creative photos of a white button-up shirt to use in the band posters and album art.
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SHIRT ALBUM COVERS
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SHIRT ALBUM COVER
ALBUM COVER SHIRT SELF TITLED 12”X12”
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SHIRT ALBUM COVER
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THANK YOU VERY MUCH
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