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The Portfolio of Mike Andersen
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Ink & Key
The work of Micahel Andersen
Ink & Key
The Portfolio of Mike Andersen
© Michael Andersen 2011 All rights reserved No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner without written permission from the author, except in the context of reviews. Every reasonable attempt has been made to identify owners of copyright. Errors or omissions will be corrected in subsequent editions. Written, designed and produced by: Michael Andersen Academy of Art University 79 New Montgomery Street, Sna Francisco, CA 94105 Department Director Phil Hamlett
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Violation America
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Ducati Heritage
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Mixing Ink
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The New Sound
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Charles and Ray
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Fallen Blossoms
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Remark Magazine
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Polly’s Perch
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Burn
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Ration
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Ink & key represents the tools, as well as the medium as my work as a graphic designer. Ink represents the world of print and everything tactile. This is the design you can touch, smell and run your fingers over. Key on the other hand, refers to the keyboard and the digital world. Together Ink & Key are the tools and the outcome of my work as a designer.
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Violation America
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights
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Client:
The United Nations
UNITED NATIONS
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverables:
Spring, 2009 Roland Young Design Outside the Box Print, Digital Helvetica Neue Poster Series, Website
Key Words Equality Swiss Typograph Human Rights
Brief To create a new campaign or product for an existing brand or organization. We could choose to cover anything we wanted. As long as it was something we believed to be important. Design Objectives Here in America we often use human rights violations as an excuse for sanctions or trying to force our views on the world. However, every day in the United States human rights are being violated. This is a hypothetical poster series that would be released by the United Nations that aims to remind Americans that we should worry about our own country once in a while before trying to police the world.
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Outcome The outcome for this project was a set of very simple yet powerful posters. They were designed to be read instantly, and to get the viewer to stop and wonder what this campaign is all about. The posters utilized bold colors along with typography on a strict grid. Each one of these posters represents a different violation of the Universal Declartation of Human Rights that occurs in the United States. There is alos a website that goes along with the project where you could learn more about this cause and what it is all about.
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The New Sound Rebranding Capitol Records
capitolrecords
Key Words Fun Pirates Sculpture
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02/10
Client:
Capitol Records
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverable:
Fall, 2009 Hunter Wimmer Nature of Identity Branding, Print Digital Chalet, Univers Visual Identity System
Brief The assignment for this project was to find a brand that we considered to be defunct or in need of a refreshing, and then to rebrand it. We were to not only recreate the identity of the company we chose but also what directions its buisness would go in, with different brand extensions. Design Objectives The design objectives of this project were first of all to learn how to rebrand a company and create a strong visual identity. The second objective was to learn how to take that identity and turn it into a new
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Outcome The end outcome of this project was a sculptural birdhouse for the organization 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization that helps tudor children after school with reading and writing. When it was formed it took up a space that required a comercial buisness. In order to refil this the created a pirate store. The pirate store has grown in popularity and now supports the store entirely. This product was created to be sold at auction to raise money for 826 Valencia.
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time to rock
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Mixing Ink
Silkscreen Posters
Key Words Ink Illustration Amsterdam Switzerland
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03/10
Client:
Personal
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Spring, 2010 Carrie Anne Silkscreen 1 Print, Silkscreen Posters
Brief The assignment for this project was to create a birdhouse out of reclaimed materials. The birdhouse would be produced by a store or organization and be either sculptural or functional, but with the same end idea of rasing money. Design Objectives This project was an investigation into creating a three dimensional product, while imposing the challenge of only using reclaimed materials.
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Outcome The end outcome of this project was a sculptural birdhouse for the organization 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization that helps tudor children after school with reading and writing. When it was formed it took up a space that required a comercial buisness. In order to refil this the created a pirate store. The pirate store has grown in popularity and now supports the store entirely. This product was created to be sold at auction to raise money for 826 Valencia.
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Heritage
A new line of skin care for Ducati
Key Words Fun Pirates Sculpture
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02/10
Client:
Ducati
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverable:
Fall, 2009 Tom McNulty Package Design 3 Packaging Univers, Bidoni Skin care line and display
Brief The assignment for this project was to create a birdhouse out of reclaimed materials. The birdhouse would be produced by a store or organization and be either sculptural or functional, but with the same end idea of rasing money. Design Objectives This project was an investigation into creating a three dimensional product, while imposing the challenge of only using reclaimed materials.
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Outcome The end outcome of this project was a sculptural birdhouse for the organization 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization that helps tudor children after school with reading and writing. When it was formed it took up a space that required a comercial buisness. In order to refil this the created a pirate store. The pirate store has grown in popularity and now supports the store entirely. This product was created to be sold at auction to raise money for 826 Valencia.
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Charles and Ray
The eames paint collection
Key Words Fun Pirates Sculpture
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09/10
Client:
Design Within Reach
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverable:
Spring, 2009 Tom McNulty Experimental Typography Print, Typography Univers, Bidoni Poster
Brief To redesign a paint line for an existing company, or create a new line based off of a famouse designer or architect Design Objectives To channel the success and quality of Eames furniture into the paint industry, and offer a line of high quality beautiful paints that anyone can use or match.
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Outcome Charles and Ray will bring the quality and high level of perfection found in the Eames furniture to the world of paint. Eames furniture is some of the most highly loved and covetable pieces in the world today, and the discerning customers who demand the most from their furniture will now have the ability to demand that same level of quality from their paint. .
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Remark
The Desire Issue
Winter 2010
Remark
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02/10
Client:
Remark Magazine
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverables:
Fall, 2010 David Hake Connecting the Dots Print, Digital, Branding Carosel, King Caslon Magazine, Website
the desire issue A magazine about communication
Key Words Desire Want Things Cool
Brief The assignment for this project was to choose a subject to research in order to compile articles and put together and design a magazine. Design Objectives: The design objectives of this project was to learn how to do thorough research into a subject, and from that research create a beautiful and compelling magazine. For my subject I chose to research communication. After exploring the subject I became interested in how we communicate desire. Both through the media and other large sources, as well as
Outcome The end result of my research was a magazine that focused on what we as people and consumers want, and how we are influenced in terms of what we want. It is a visually exploration through food, products, art and sex. Why do we want what we want? What is cool? Does sex really sell? Inside this magazine you can find the answers. Strong imagery and playful typography help communicate these ideas without getting in the way and give the end user a product that they will find themselves desiring.
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Polly’s Perch
Birdhouse for 826 Valencia
Key Words Fun Pirates Sculpture
Project
07/10
Client:
826 Valencia
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Materials:
Spring, 2009 Tom McNulty Package Design 2 Packaging, Identity Black Letter Found Recycled Parts
Brief The assignment for this project was to create a birdhouse out of reclaimed materials. The birdhouse would be produced by a store or organization and be either sculptural or functional, but with the same end idea of rasing money. Design Objectives: This project was an investigation into creating a three dimensional product, while imposing the challenge of only using reclaimed materials.
Outcome The end outcome of this project was a sculptural birdhous for the organization 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is a nonprofit organization that helps tudor children after school w reading and writing. When it was formed it took up a spac that required a comercial buisness. In order to refil this the created a pirate store. The pirate store has grown in popula ity and now supports the store entirely. This product was created to be sold at auction to raise money for 826 Valenc
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Typographic Poster
Key Words Fun Pirates Sculpture
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The Blood Brothers
Date: Instructor: Course: Category: Typography: Deliverable:
Fall, 2009 Jay Wilkinson Experimental Typography Print, Typography Univers, Bidoni Poster
Brief The assignment for this project was to create an experimental typographic poster for a song from a band of our choosing, using a light projector and transperencies. Design Objectives The objectives of this assignement was to see what kind of fun vibrant and exciting poster you could create without using too much photoshop.
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Outcome The end outcome of this project was a sculptural birdhouse for the organization 826 Valencia. 826 Valencia is a non-profit organization that helps tudor children after school with reading and writing. When it was formed it took up a space that required a comercial buisness. In order to refil this the created a pirate store. The pirate store has grown in popularity and now supports the store entirely. This product was created to be sold at auction to raise money for 826 Valencia.
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Burn
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Band
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The Blood Brothers
Burn Piano Island Burn
Lyrics
2003
Song
Burn Piano Island Burn
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Bulimic rainbows vomit what? Burn Piano Island Burn! Burn Piano Island Burn! Coconut pupils never shut? Burn Piano Island Burn! Jigsaw babies and their bamboo stilts? Burn Piano Island Burn! Charred toucans weave their black sky quilt? Burn Piano Island Burn! Bulimic rainbows vomit what? Coconut pupils never shut. Seashells scream celestial code. Melt on the shore in a flame snowglobe.
Burn Piano Island Burn! Torch the treasure! Torch the shovels! Torch these hands dipped in gold lacquer! Torch the finger-prints painting a violence portrait on spinal wings! I buried my child of eight inch fingers neck deep in the hungry quicksand. I buried out bride of pineapple skin, where the generic sunsets sparkle so bland. I split my grandmother like a rotten papaya... our fright to pollenate the flowers of fire. I vomited my skeleton and donated it to the war mausoleum... I split my will and testament along the scar
tissue seam. I packaged my heart and fed-ex'd it to the octopus queen. Burn Piano Island Burn! Soured Palm trees sputter waxy wax stink! Boiling lagoons chewing bubble gum pink! Burn Piano Island Burn! The vicodin volcano spews and salivates! It's belly bloated like a pre-teen pregnancy! I fed its limp indifferent walls tales of an ark haunted by five howls,
I tied a nervous noose of piano wire and wrapped it around the mocking throat of the past. It's head erupted like a rabid roman candle as I kicked the stump from underneath it. Drown, all your riddles down! Drown, all your riddles! Burn Piano Island Burn! And drown all your fucking riddles down the throat of the sea. This one man raft won't be coming back so don't talk talk talk out of tune to me. From a distance the fornication of fear and flames twinkles so pretty.
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2003
Song
Burn Piano Island Burn
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Bulimic rainbows vomit what? Burn Piano Island Burn! Burn Piano Island Burn! Coconut pupils never shut? Burn Piano Island Burn! Jigsaw babies and their bamboo stilts? Burn Piano Island Burn! Charred toucans weave their black sky quilt? Burn Piano Island Burn! Bulimic rainbows vomit what? Coconut pupils never shut. Seashells scream celestial code. Melt on the shore in a flame snowglobe.
Burn Piano Island Burn! Torch the treasure! Torch the shovels! Torch these hands dipped in gold lacquer! Torch the finger-prints painting a violence portrait on spinal wings! I buried my child of eight inch fingers neck deep in the hungry quicksand. I buried out bride of pineapple skin, where the generic sunsets sparkle so bland. I split my grandmother like a rotten papaya... our fright to pollenate the flowers of fire. I vomited my skeleton and donated it to the war mausoleum... I split my will and testament along the scar
tissue seam. I packaged my heart and fed-ex'd it to the octopus queen. Burn Piano Island Burn! Soured Palm trees sputter waxy wax stink! Boiling lagoons chewing bubble gum pink! Burn Piano Island Burn! The vicodin volcano spews and salivates! It's belly bloated like a pre-teen pregnancy! I fed its limp indifferent walls tales of an ark haunted by five howls,
I tied a nervous noose of piano wire and wrapped it around the mocking throat of the past. It's head erupted like a rabid roman candle as I kicked the stump from underneath it. Drown, all your riddles down! Drown, all your riddles! Burn Piano Island Burn! And drown all your fucking riddles down the throat of the sea. This one man raft won't be coming back so don't talk talk talk out of tune to me. From a distance the fornication of fear and flames twinkles so pretty.
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