MICHAEL ROLLINS
GRAPHICS + PHOTOGRAPHY
TABLE OF CO NTENTS
GRAPHIC DESIGN Typographic Portrait Social Justice Week 2012 AIAS Promotionals Final Review Calendars Lecture Series Promotionals Modernism Poster Typographic Journey Identity Kinetic Typography
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PRO MOTI ONAL
graphics and promotional materials
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TYPOGRAPHIC PORTRAIT Utilizing copy from Matthew Frederick’s 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School I constructed a self-portrait with typographic characters as the primary form of mark-making. Variations in light and shadow coupled with the fluctuating scale of letterforms create the illusion of three-dimensional space. The sentences, for the most part, are intentionally coherent; a method utilizing the mass and density of stacked type was avoided to preserve legibility for the reader.
SOCIAL JUSTICE WEEK Social Justice Week is an annual event designed to raise A&M University students’ awareness of social issues in local, national, and global communities. In 2012 the university tasked students with the development of promotional materials for the event. This particular design illustrates the magnitude of human trafficking by quantifying the total using marks and relating it to something the audience is familiar with: the average nine-to-five work day.
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BEFORE THE NINE TO FIVE WORKDAY IS OVER
ILLEGAL HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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480 PEOPLE
everything you ever wanted to know about
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presented by Michael O’Brien and Marcel Erminy
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4TH AIAS MEETING 10.20.11 @ 7.00P in C207
FREE FOOD AND VALUABLE INFO
Professional tips for the College of Architecture Career Fair [February 2nd, 3rd] at the First Spring AIAS Meeting Presentations by Professor Donna Hajash and the Career Center’s Assistant Director Brad Collet on portfolios and interviews
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January 26th @ 6.30p in C207, Food and drinks provided
Join AIAS this Spring and receive a 50% discount on 2012 dues! Join Today!
THE WORKSHOP TAMUAIAS PRESENTS
10.22.11@10A-12.30P
illustrator+
INDESIGN gain the edge in your portfolio with sharpened graphic design skills and layout mastery [grids] impress friends and professors with vector wizardry
learn how to communicate your design
AIAS PROMOTIONALS This poster series, developed over the course of two semesters as the promotions officer for Texas A&M’s AIAS chapter, promote meetings, lectures, and workshops involving a wide range of subjects. Originally based on vintage methods of advertising and design (beginning in Fall 2011), the series evolved into the development of a template for the rapid reproduction of content through similarly styled graphics and a gridbased text layout.
aias members get in free non-members: $5 (paid at door) season pass: $12 (3 workshops) sign up by 10.20 name + email
ROOM 102B IN THE SCC
THE WORKSHOP TAMUAIAS PRESENTS
11.12.11@10A-12.30P
autodesk
REVIT learn to use the industry standard for design render your projects in 3d + set up viewpoints
model realistic materials and lighting understand real-world BIM modeling
aias members get in free
non-members: $5 (paid at door) season pass: $12 (3 workshops) sign up by 11.10 name + email
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AIAS meeting 7.00P C207
Q&A
2.16.12
with Ward Wells
there’s free food and drinks
question, answer
First Spring AIAS Meeting
Career fair information 1.26.12 6.30p C207
IDP? what is...
feat. dr. miranda
aias meeting
9.22.11 @ 6.30
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9a-10a matthew sanders chair: shepley culp vanzandt homeless shelter
10a-11a meredith butler chair: erminy wells saginor urban vinyard
11a-12p sean howard chair: hill wagner giusti affect learning
1p-2p ripsime hovsepian chair: s.rodiek hamilton j.warren agility adaptable residential health center
2p-3p clint floyd chair: o’brien erminy j.nichols scaling moments of presence
3p-4p salud sierra chair: s.rodiek o’brien dvorak living and library
4p-5p kuangyi tao chair: shepley yan rybkowski shanghai general hospital
5p-6p jiayin li chair: zhu mann varni women’s and children’s hospital beijing
9a-10a arnold ghil chair: o’brien a.nichols bright new bomber’s stadium
10a-11a laruen upchurch chair: lang beltran lafayette community art center
11a-12p chengcheng huang chair: shepley mann lee heart hospital beijing
1p-2p aaron higgins chair: erminy lang galanter creating symbiosis
2p-3p matt ostermier chair: deyong babe saginor reconnecting east austin
3p-4p maryam rajabali chair: zhu shepley viruru mueller elementary school
4p-5p miamiao xiao chair: he lang sweet art guild
11a-12p geoffrey kornegay chair: lang giusti saginor architectural infrastructure
9a-10a brad mcgarrol chair: deyong holliday saginor railway hotel
10a-11a domingo sanchez III chair: warden o’brien fernandez-solis 1025 frio st market
11a-12p matt weigers chair: o’brien downing fernandez-solis moments and movements
1p-2p maggie bryan chair: wells o’brien volkman fashion and architecture
2p-3p lu gan chair: shepley hamilton lee shanghai medical center
3p-4p ingrid van beljon chair: erminy lang van zandt the underlying culture
4p-5p luis martinez chair: s.rodiek lavy gamm the health home
5p-6p amy kircher chair: hamilton j.rodiek shepley urban model for outpatient care and wellness
9a-10a yan lu chair: s.rodiek shepley lee senior housing design
10a-11a dale fenton chair: deyong hill galanter hyper-dense urbanism
11a-12p cheng jin chair: lang he j.nichols las lomas public library
1p-2p peri arthur chair: o’brien holliday bright downtown winery resort
2p-3p jose terrazas chair: erminy warden fernandez-solis prospect station
3p-4p akshay sangolli chair: shepley hamilton dvorak heart care
4p-5p dayna finley chair: tabb holliday brody eco-tourism in everglades
5p-6p anahid sargsyan chair: shepley o’brien varni children’s rehab center
9a-10a richard bassett chair: mann lang rooker marine research center
10a-11a stephen dietert chair: o’brien warden fernandez-solis dietert mill restaurant
11a-12p suyong jin chair: mann shepley varni children hospital of richmond
1p-2p sukung lee chair: shepley varni zhu dallas children’s orthopaedic hospital
3p-4p christina shafer chair: tabb haberl saginor sustainable student living community
4p-5p maria luisa melendez chair: erminy wells bienko piling activities together
4p-5p kaiji zhou chair: zhu shepley huang senior community
9a-10a nnaemeka mozie chair: warden wells fernandez-solis axial retro-mend
10a-11a patrick hurst chair: shepley esquivel ditre celiac disease rehab center
11a-12p phillip cedeno chair: s.rodiek o’brien lee a mobility
1p-2p glenda fletcher chair: clayton lang kreuter we can do better
2p-3p yuquian chen chair: hamilton shelpey c.lee burn treatment, research, and rehabilitation center
3p-4p mark willingham chair: o’brien holliday larsen langford design
WRIGHT GALLERY ONE
WRIGHT GALLERY TWO
OUTSIDE DEAN’S OFFICE
FOURTH FLOOR REVIEW+ 400CA
1P-5P 8A-12P
MONDAY 4/23
ESQU ARCHIVEL 207 ESQU ARCHIVEL 406
WEDNESDAY 4/25 1P-5P
CLAY ARCHTON 207 1P-5P
MANN ARCH 4
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BENY ARCHAMIN 305 1P-5P
GEVA ARCH 4
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TUESDAY 5/01
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BABE ERMIN/ ARCH Y 606
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TABB ARCH 6
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DOWN ARCH ING 305
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ROGE ARCHRS 106
O’BRIE ARCH N 606
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ROGE ARCHRS 106
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As a member of A&M’s Agency program I developed promotional materials for lectures, faculty events, award ceremonies, and events within the college. This project, a poster series that served as a schedule for graduate final studies presentations was a collaboration between myself and graduate program head Marcel Erminy. Both midterm and final presentations required a calendar and a schedule for each review location. Graduate and undergraduate reviews had separate schedules.
MONDAY 4/30
1P-5P 8A-12P
FINAL REVIEW CALENDARS
RODIE ARCH K 207 RODIE ARCH K 406
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FRIDAY 4/27
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LECTURE SERIES During the spring of 2012 our team at the Agency developed several proposals to encourage students to participate in the lecture series. This proposal was targeted to the students dining in the architecture building’s cafe. Using bright colors and the latest in pop-up technology (the signs would be folded in the center; the hand is extends vertically above the sign) we created a series of signs to encourage involvement in the college’s lecture program.
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MODERNISM POSTER This piece was designed for Professor Scott Gartner’s Modernism and Architecture in America seminar at Virginia Tech with the intention of bringing more students into the course. While the course places modernism in an international context, the focus for the lectures are on American designers, architects, and the philosophical movements that influenced their designs. Presented to the viewer are icons of the period in graphically elemental forms to hint at the material covered over the semester.
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TYPOGRAPHIC JOURNEY To explore the relationship of typographic elements as they exist simultaneously in a single composition, this journey to Texas A&M’s campus is illustrated utilizing hierarchical text, weights, and a radial grid. The radial form is representative of a clock face; the times serve as the inevitable frame against which the morning’s events must take place. The events themselves loosely follow the grid, reflecting their lack of conformity to the rigid structure of time.
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IDENTITY From a professional point of view the logo or “mark� is the symbol by which a business is immediately identified. As part of a general re-branding for this portfolio, I experimented with the strict geometric nature of the typeface Futura to form a mark that related to my preference for clean geometry in graphics and architecture. By exploiting the nature of letterform I created several prototypical marks exploring negative space and simplified graphic forms.
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KINETIC TYPOGRAPHY This kinetic piece was an exploration in typeography that conveyed emotion through text, animation, and audio cues. The source material was chosen as a narrative summation of my undergraduate studies at A&M: 101 Things I Learned in Architecture School by Matthew Frederick. The aesthetics of the animation were based on the appearance of the book. Animation inspiration was drawn from Celebi’s Lemon Rant, EJP’s Reservoir Dogs, and JESS3’s State of the Internet, among others.
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During the storyboard process, it was decided that each “thing” pulled from the written work would require a distinctive identity, an entrance and exit that was unique to that phrase. As prospective animations were paired with the audio, George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, it became evident that the number of “things” had to be reduced to a final seven. Without a dialogue track audio cues dictated the timing for each phrase, with impacts and tempo driving the animations.
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The final product was a one-minute-sixteensecond animation with seven “things” that illustrated my academic career as it stood at the summit of my undergraduate studies. The frames on this spread are from the video that was shown at the Viz-a-Gogo 2012 show, the showcase of the strongest graphic and animation projects coming out of Texas A&M. This project was chosen among the best graphics and animationmajors’ final projects for the exhibition. The video is available upon request.
THR OUGH GLASS
a collection of photographs
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ARCHITECTURE Louis Kahn said: “A great building must begin with the immeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed, and in the end must be unmeasured.� Architecture has the capacity to inspire through timeless beauty. Light, space, and form halt seconds, minutes, and hours in architecturally aware space. The following pages capture these moments where time itself gives way to the environment.
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Arezzo, Florence, Cinque Terre, Austin, Ft. Worth, Berlin; these are the places we inhabit. Architecture serves the place as much as it serves the occupant — buildings become threads of an interwoven urban fabric. Communities build, renovate, deconstruct, and rebuild as the living city grows with its surroundings. Hillsides become terraces and rivers become streets, challenging architecture to adapt to constantly novel environments.
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PEOPLE We do not build for ourselves. Architecture is a product of the needs and desires of a community of thinking, feeling inhabitants. It is through them that the meaning of architecture is revealed: people gather, perform, exhibit, converse, trade, play in and alter their environments as is their will. To make architecture is to connect with communities and individuals a level deeper than aesthetics alone can express.
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