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Manuela Me M Manuela A s a person I AM I am a person who always sees the creative side of life, laugh out loud, I feel passion for every single proyect that I can make, and I like to keep reinventing myself. My joy and positivism describes my life in every situation, this caracteristics make me understand the environments I am involved in and everyones there, so create and make something from that. I love learning and teach those things that I have knowledge for being give.
INTERESTS One of my passions is travel, explore the world, people, different cultures and ways of life; I love to dance, sing and laugh; spending quality time with my family and friends, the world of cinema, graphic art, crafts and fashion; help others and fight for their rights and happiness; draw and create typography with different techniques.
LENGAUGES HABILITIES Happy lovely Charismatic Creative Outgoing Familiar Inteligent Leader Open mind Persistent Positive Punctual Proactive Recurisve Secure Responsable Social Altruisti
Learning lenguages open new doors to the world. English
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ejía Grisales Grisales ejía I AM I am a Product`s Design Engineering in formation of EAFIT university; my knowledge goes from graphic design, analog and web, preparing and design projects, aplaying design methods, creative techniques, 3D modeling and product prototyping; I like challenges and affront them, learn, applying and teaching. HABILITIES
EXPERIENCE
Passionate Learn Craft art Plastic art Collaborator Creative Emphatic Teach Lieader Open mind Social Organized Puntual Secure Proactive Team work
- Brand creator of MMG, with lines like Trazos Infinitos. - Teacher assistan: Department of Product Design Engineering: Statics (2016-2); Project Presentation (2017-1). - FreeLancer: Graphic design, wall murals and logos. - Graphic designer of Diseños del Mar.
Software Photoshop Illustrator After Effects KeyShot CREO ptc Office Pptx Office Excel Aras innovator
EDUCATION San Luis Gonzaga`s High School (2012-2); Comercial Spaces Design, Arturo Tejada`s School (2013-1); begining Product`s Deseign Engineering (2013-2); sixth congress Innova Entretenimiento 2013.
A s a professional
CONTENTS
Portfolio
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Product`s Design Engineering
Trazos InƔnitos
1. Chalk murals. 2. Logos. 3. Renewal of logos 4. Key Visual. 5. Murals. 6. Photography.
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Calligraphy and Tipography 65 7. Graphic pieces calligraphy. 8. Techniques. Illustrations
9. Digitals. 10. Analog.
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Projects
11. Fractar. 12. Quiral. 13. Edna. 14. Mora. 15. Obruc. 16. Sentra. 17. Aiko.
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Trazos
INFINI T O S
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This murals born a few years ago, answering the needs of change spaces, generating new experiences. Painting a whole wall with black paint and then illustrate in it with white chalk.
1.MURALES DE TIZA
This kind of art can be applied at home or companies, so everyone around it can interact and be influenced.
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The Ɣrst one This mural was made at my place, because I wanted to change the space, generating new expereicnes for my mom and I, puting forward our dreams, goals, and good things for our family. So this is it, murald that can show and expoused anything that sombody want to, changing just a wall.
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A t yƓr company with this type of illustrations you can boost and improve good ways of work, reminding everybody part of the company, the values, goals and all this thing to be better and more every day. Like Visión Gerencial, they with happiness philosophy, so they love this kind of art, because is the way they can show to their workers the motivation in a very different and dinamic way.
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2. LOGOS
Natalia Vergara Marin
Happy Snack
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In the course of my brand, I had developed four logos until now; one for interior design, another one for snack`s restaurant, for an a product`s design engineering and the last one is my logo, inspired in mi brand letters.
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PERSONAL LOGO Ăł
Natalia Vergara Marin Natalia Vergara MarĂn is an product`s design engineering passionated for the industry, process, materials, and everithig involved. She is a versatile and happy person, this is the reason of the shapes and colors applied in her logo.
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Branding
Natalia Vergara MarĂn
SHAPES
COLORS
TYPOGRAPHY
Handycheera Century Gothic EXPLORATION
This was the approach that was selected as the main element for the logo, inspired by the two inicials letters of her name and last name. this show what is she as a person, versatile and happy.
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Natalia Vergara Marin Main element mixed with her name and the two last names, because she wanted to have both in the logo.
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Adding the pattern inspired in industrial design, the letters N and V, the log show the engineering part of who Natalia is.
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Natalia Vergara Marin At the end, the color for the polyginal shape, change from gray to blue, because this color represent more Natalia as a person and professional.
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CARRERA 49 #7 sur 50
3148241794 native9614@gmail.com
All the colors Natalia wanted to be are applied in the business card.
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BUSINESS LOGO Valentina y Marcela
Valentina Zapata and Marcela Correa are student of business administration and product`s design engineering respectively. both were friend many years ago and they decided to create a business of counseling in interior design, they wanted to create a name conected with the logo. This one had to be modern, with golden and polygonal shapes.
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Branding
Valentina y Marcela COLORS
SHAPES
TYPOGRAPHY
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Century Gothic
EXPLORATION
Fist element selected as the logo.
Shape selected as a part of the logo of the brand, element that have the letters V and M.
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NAMES EXPLORATION Marcela and Valentina wanted include the shape of a butterfly in their logo and the name of the brand had the combination of the both names, but then the butterfly was transformed as a word and not like a shape. BUTTERFLY: Leptir (bosnio), alibangbang (cebuano), motýl (checho), papilio (esperanto), perhonen ( finlandes), balboreta (gallego), malam (hausa), féileacán (irlandés), farfett (maltes), fluture (rumano). COMBINATION: Malam Design, Papilio Design, Balboreta Design, Sulod Design, Balboreta Design, Interiores Design, Spazi Dissin. Malam Design
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Then the name changed mixing the tree first letters of Valentina and Marcela, resulting Valmar, and then the Design was a necessary word for the brand, and the element for being the other element was the combination of the letters V and M. Valmar Design
ADDITIONAL ELEMENTS
Complete logo, selected for differents graphic pieces, transforming the black in golden.
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BUSINESS CARDS Front
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CARRERA 49 #7 sur 50 3104267443 - 3128995656 informacion@info.com.co
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BRAND LOGO Happy Snack Happy Snack is a line of FelizK, company that works with happiness philosophy at work; Karla Arango, the business manager, wanted a restaurant where everything was friendly, different and fun. A place where the employees can get relaxed, eat different, and not wasting too much money.
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BRANDING Happy Snack SHAPES
COLORS
TYPOGRAPHY
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Century Gothic
EXPLORATION
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This was selected as the shape of the logo.
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A few changes, someones in the typography and adding the shape of eyes tho complete the happy face.
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Digital logo, so later can be painted in the walls of the space where Happy Snack was destinated.
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PAINTING THE LOGO IN THE WALL
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HAPPY SNACK
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MMG LOGO MMG creation, come from the initial letters of my name and last names, Manuela MejĂa Grisales. For create the logo, I took two shapes, geometrics and organics, because the lines represents my design part and organic`s shapes represents my graphic part.
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SHAPES
COLORS
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Salsabilla EXPLORATION
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First shape for my logo for 2 years.
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I wanted to change my logo because the first one had many lines, so I decides to remove a few lines and add the main letters in another typography more understandable.
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Because my experience creating brand logos, I had the opportunity of redesign a logo, DiseĂąos del Mar, brand of underwear for woman.
3. LOGO RENEWAL
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CHANGES IN THE LOGO DiseĂąos del Mar
Maria Paz, the brand owner of underwear design, wanted to change and renew the logo, but she wanted the anchor still in the logo design, and the letters created by MMG (me).
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BRANDING
Diseños del Mar
ORIGINAL LOGO
FORMAL EXPLORATION
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Original colors
The rope was changed for one more compact.
Many illustration of sailors, so the rudders was MMG calligraphy for change for the letters of the logo. screws.
NUMBER ONE RESULT
IDEA NUMBER TWO Colors idea number 2
The position of the word DiseĂąos was changed horizontally and being part of the anchor.
NUMBER TWO RESULT
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IDEA NUMBER TREE Colors idea number 3
Colors idea number 2
NUMBER TREE RESULT
Then Maria Paz decided that she wanted darker blues.
IDEA NUMEBER FOUR Colors idea number 4
Colors idea number 3
NUMBER TREE RESULT
She wanted the blues because all the theme aboyt sea and the name, but then she decided to change the colors for pink ones because the product she sells.
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FINAL LOGO
4. KEY VISUAL
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Today social networks are the best way to get closer to every cosumer ans user, so the need of made graphic pieces that can help the brands and companies to be at forefront, was increased, that is way the KEY VISUAL born, to supply those needs. This ones are used for promote sales or a special date.
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WOMAN the new BLACK
8/MARZO
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SOME KEY VISUAL Women`s day
WOMAN the new BLACK
WOMAN WOMAN the new the new BLACK BLACK
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WOMAN WOMAN the new the new BLACK BLACK IS
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FELIZ DÍA
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What the brand do
Cosemos para darte elegancia y felicidad
Trabajamos Pensando
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My brand in instagram
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5. MURALS
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Thanks “Graciasâ€? was a mural made for an event at the end of 2016, VisiĂłn Gerencial wanted to invite all their clients to tanks de trust in them, so the mural contained all the names of every single client that work with them.
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Also they planned a party for the employees at the end of 2016 with the same goal, give thanks to them for being the people who make the company.
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Salón de Té Place where the employees of Visión Gerencial go for having lunch or some snacks. The name of the space was created with the colors of the brand Felizk (Pink and turquoise) and the philosophy of happiness in a wall there, and the lockers was used like a wall ans there were writed the values of the company.
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6. PHOTOGRAPHY This section is dedicated to the photography os some work made it, and the reason is for demostrate how can I show my work.
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CalliGRAPHY
TypoGRAPHY
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7. GRAPHIC PIECES OF CALLIGRAPHY
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Gratitude This card was made for give thanks to some people who helps the fundation Grisales - Badetti, the one that hepl kids and teenagers to hace education.
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Los 50 de mami! This card was designed for a 50th birthday, I included all the colors shapes and the things Karla likes.
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choosen option for make the invitation.
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Gift cards
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8. TECHNIQUES Some examples of how I practice my calligraphy techniques.
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9. DIGITALS
Dibujos
Toy, kid between two and four years old, it is about teachin musical notes.
Prosthesis for girls between 4 and 6 years old, if they have any injury.
Ilustration for a bottle of water.
Robot, MOM. She takes care of the kids and say when they have to do any activity.
Illustration for some cards to do active breaks at work.
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Puzzle for kids of 8 years old. The puzzle complete so it get activated to do exercise.
Vespa, this was done at drawing class.
ilustration for a campaign in the company Visiรณn Gerencial.
Infographics
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Card for a any activitie in the active breaks.
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About the prosthesis for girls between 4 and 6 years old with any injury.
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10. ANALOG
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Products Design Engineering Ingenieria de DiseĂąo de Producto
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Projects
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111 DEVELOPMENT Was made in te subject Poyecto1 in 2013-2
MY WORK I was in charge of everythig because was an individual project.
Fractar is an estructure with 3 main surfaces, for show objects. It is inspired in poligonal geometric shapes.
EXPLORATION MATERIALS: Pinewood and polyurethane.
Selected one
FABRICATION
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113 DEVELOPMENT Was made in te subject Poyecto1 in 2013-2
MY WORK I was in charge of everythig because was an individual project.
It is a Quiches container, made for a crafts restaurant, De las Moras. The main idea was create somthing that que costumers can use for share at the time of eat somthing. EXPLORATION Name: combination between QUICHE and ESPIRAL
MATERIALS MDF wood, plaster and barbotina (Slip). FABRICATION
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13. EDNA Edna is an esculture with very different materials like Expanded polystyrene, steel, playdoo, newspaper, fake hair, plaster, paint and fomy. It was made in 2014- 1. FABRICATION
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Design parameters User: Girl Age: 5-10 years old. Context: Interiors. Activitie: Longitudinal displacement, sitting and tilting action in a playing environment. Need: Hands-free for easy manipulation of objects. Injury: Ankle sprain, grade 1 and 2.
Work team
Natalia Vergara, Valentina Mesa, Daniela Reyes, Maria José Henao and me (Manuela Mejía Grisales).
My work
Design, 3D modeling, part of fabrication and graphic image and comunication.
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2015 - 1 in the sibject Proyecto4.
Issue
The product required the inclination of the user with the hands free, also free movements.
Solution
Valentina
Maria José Natalia
Me (MMG)
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Obruc is a unipersonal vehicle, it is about a giant wheel with a 4 times engine with gas. It was inspired in adrenaline because we wanted someting different.
Work team Natalia Vergara, Estefania Monsalve, Stefanía Giraldo, Daniela Reyes, Maria José Henao and me (Manuela Mejía Grisales). My work
I was in charge of the inicial design idea, 3D modeling and aldo part of the fabrication. Project 2015 - 2 in the subject Proyecto5
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16. SENTRA
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Work team Andrea Gonzalez, Natalia Vergara, Paola Sierra, StefanĂa Giraldo and me (Manuela MejĂa Grisales). My work
3D modeling, planning of the project, part of thegraphic design and formal design of the product. Project 2016 - 1 in the subject Proyecto6. Context
- Lack of activities for people with cognitive disabilities. - Down syndrome mild grade. - Skills related to fine motor skills
Reto de diseĂąo
Design a product that encourages the development of fine motor skills in 1-3 year old children with cognitive disabilities specifically with Down syndrome.
Value of the idea
Development of the touch and familiarization with the textures of daily life. Development of muscular strength. Developing muscle strength helps them avoid slow movement, poor coordination and zero control of their strength. Development of fine motor skills with hand eye coordination which helps them to strengthen their attention.
Different playing time according to the ages of each child. It consists of fitting the white part into the other one that is in other color. Like the fist image there are 3 kind of colors.
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Y ya se seguirĂa con las otras 2 bases si son mayores de 1 aĂąo.
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Andrea Gonzales, Paola Sierra, Daniel Arrieta, Camila Arango, StefanĂa Giraldo, Natalia Vergara and me (Manuela MejĂa Grisales).
My work
part of the planning of the project, 3D modeling, and I did and created the first idea.
Project
2016-2 in the subject Proyecto7.
It is a robot that has the function of being a nanny for pets, which is handled by an app. AIKO is alive since the moment that you can be with your pet at house, you can schedule the time for AIKO so he can give to the ped food, also through the application you can seen and communicated with your pet, like talking and taking photos, and at any time you can activate the entertainment mechanism and release a cookie. What we mainly wanted was foster adoption of pets and that people who can not have a pet for not having time.
To be continued
CONTACT ME Manuela Mejia Grisales Phone: +57 314 800 1756 Location: MedellĂn, Antioquia, Colombia E-Mail: manumejia95@hotmail.com Website: manuelamejiagrisales.com Social network: @mmgdesign23 (Instagram)