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Chicken Licken Illustration
Ewe Sew
Savory Spice
Core of Love Illustration
Jade-Louise Marmalade
360
MAGIE Poster
Seneca Skis
Senior Thesis Surface Design
Spray Paint Illustration
Product Develoment Package Design Ski Top Sheet
Product Development Print Campaign
Project
Chicken Licken
Client
Kari Benjamin
Process
Illustration
Chicken Licken 8x8 Illustrations Chicken Licken is a children’s book I worked on for an up and coming author, Kari Benjamin. The illustrations went along with the story of this little pet chick. I took inspiration from vintage children’s books and 50s illustrations. The colors needed to be bright to catch children’s attention, but also have a warm country feeling.
Project
Core of Love
Client
Rosses’
Process
Illustration
Core of Love 11x17 Illustration When two apples really love each other, they get married! This illustration was for Rocky and Lorie Ross who fell in love and got married. Rocky was a professor at MSU Bozeman and a total computer nerd and Lori originally hailed from WA and her house used to be decorated entirely with apples. For this poster I incorporated their personalities into a fun retro inspired look.
Project
Spray Paint Poster
Client
MAGIE
Process
Spray Paint Illustration
MAGIE 18x24 Illustration As a class exercise I picked a Montana event, The Montana Ag and Industrial Expo to create an event poster. I created a multi color template to build a stencil for spray paint art. I illustrated a vintage inspired poster with a old time tractor as the focal point, with fields and sun rays behind. I used red to add attention to the important event information.
Project
Ewe Sew
Client
Personal Project
Process
Product Development
Ewe Sew
Childrens Toy Ewe sew in based on vintage simple sewing games to teach children tactile motor skills. The shape of the lamb is inspired by the yarn that would be included in the kit. The minimalistic design of the logo is directly based on the metal shape of the toy. The shap eof the toy itself is simple so the child can sew it however they want.
Project
Jade-Louise Marmalade
Client
Jade Hummel
Process
Package Design
Jade-Louise Marmalade Package Design
Jade is an English baker from Utah who makes healthy marmalade as a side business. She focuses on using zucchinis a veggie most people avoid planting in their gardens because it grows in too much of an abundance, and then what to do with it? I illustrated a zucchini flower to show the pretty side of the odd green plant as the base to Jade’s many marmalade labels for her array of flavors.
Project
Ski Wraps
Client
Seneca Skis
Process
Ski Top Sheet
Seneca Skis
Ski Top Sheet This was a class exercise in which we worked with a local Bozeman ski shop to design ski skins. My on brand design is influenced by Seneca’s Bozeman location and love of nature. I took bits of coniferous trees and arranged them strategically into two patterns to interlock and repeat across the skis. The clean white background and arranged specimens are inspired by botanical sheets.
Project
Savory Spice
Client
Cloud 9 Organics
Process
Product Development
Team Members Cory Babb Nate Roberson
Savory Spice
Product Development As a group project for a cross-disciplinary class called Farm to Market, I along with Cory Babb and Nate Roberson worked together to analyze Cloud Nine farm’s nutrition, business, and design possibilities. We created Savory Spice a vegetable and spice mix that can use wilted, grade b vegetables, and herbs that did not sell at farmers markets. Our dehydrated mix is simple and visually colorful so we decided to create minimal packaging to let our product speak for itself. We also created a instagram account and hang tag to inspire our consumers on how to use our product.
Project 360
Client
Spoonflower
Purpose
Print Campaign
360
Print Campaign Spoonflower is a USA company that can digitally print your designs on fabric, wallpaper, or giftwrap. You can upload your own unique designs or you can buy designer’s. Spoonflower is a very creative new company and they have a faithful following of crafters. I decided on a print campaign to hopefully target an older demographic to use spoonflower for their own projects. I researched women’s magazines rate sheets, and decided on a range of magazines from Where Women Create, to Better Homes & Garden.
Project
Senior Research Project
Purpose
Surface Design
The Flour Sack A Change in Pattern
Senior Project By Megan Henke
A Change in Pattern Surface Design
Would you wear a flour sack? In the early 1900s’ it was common in rural America to use whatever you could to put clothes on your back. Companies who produced commodity bags soon discovered that women were using their cloth bags to make clothes for their families. From chicken feed bags to flour sacks, all were designed with decorative patterns, clothing patterns, or even toy patterns for women to use for their families. I designed my own patterns inspired by the roots of this rural history, I illustrated patterns for modern flour sacks, which still have a vintage gesture.
Oldies Inspired by the later life of the flour sack the 40s and 50s. The days of fun floral and bright colors, the war was over and life was fun! Mainly feminine this collection is for the housewife the main consumer of the flour sack, and the one to make the clothes. With my research I created color pallets from that time so there is a soft feeling to the collection that has a retro vibe.
Farm Life Where does flour come from? Wheat, which comes from fields, and when harvested goes to an elevator to be made into flour. I took this collection very personally since my background is in agriculture. This collection is directly related to the source of the product, the flour. Browns, gold, and grays made up the color pallet representing the earth, wheat, and grain elevators.
Inkwell When ink was needed to write before typewriters or lead pencils, there was a craft to writing. We see it coming back today in calligraphy. I wanted to use india ink as a medium to create some hand crafted patterns. These are the most modern influenced to help bring the project to our modern age.
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