handcraf ted with love
Sarah D’Agostino
Portfolio
with seven original illustrations
first edition
VIENNA 2014
Have I gone
mad?
I’m afraid so. You’re entirely bonkers. But I’ll tell you a secret:
All the best people are.
Index
Once upon a time‌ p.13 Curriculum vitae p.14 Branding p.17 Infographics p.35 Illustration p.41 Photography p.53 Typography & Layout p.67
Once
upon a time
There was an italian girl who grew up
totally pleased with the result. A never
in beautiful south tyrol and had the gre-
ending insatiability lingered inside her.
at luck of having an italian father and a
Never seeing an end to what she still
german mother. Which means she grew
had – and more so, wanted – to learn.
up to be bilingual. Pretty awesome she
Even though her beginnings were most-
thought. Her name was Sarah. She was
ly awesomely chaotic, she never stopped
a very open person who didn’t mind tel-
until she found a solution. And when she
ling the truth and appreciated it even
did, she was determined bringing it to
more so to hear the truth from others.
an end. Sarah loved every single minute
She loved sarcasm. And laughing. A
of this creating process. Well, maybe not
lot. Some might claim she was loud and
so much the chaotic beginning. But she
flashy – which is totally true – but at the
could never live without any creativity
same time she was a very introspective
in her life. This is why she went out into
person. Also, Sarah was totally in love
the big wide world and started studying
with trashy kitsch, gory stuff and mini- Graphic Design in Vienna, at the Wermalism – a walking contradiction if you
be Akademie. In June 2014 Sarah
like. While working on a project she al-
graduated and is now proud owner of a
ways was more than eager to make the
Bachelor of Arts with first class honors.
best she ever did. She always pushed her-
She is now ready to start her life in the
self to improve her skills and was never
real world. This is her story so far…
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Sarah D’Agostino Mobile Phone
0680 317 72 65
hello@sarahdagostino.com
Nationality Date of birth
WORKING EXPERIENCE
July 2013 Print office Rema-Print, Vienna (A).
August 2012 Graphic Design studio DeSein, Bolzano (I).
Italian 17|06|1989
EDUCATION
2011 – 2014 WerbeAkademie Vienna, Graphic Design. Qualification: Bachelor of Arts with first class honours.
LANGUAGES
fluent Italian & German, very good English, basic French
INTERESTS
Art, Gory stuff, Minimalism, Sarcasm, Drawing, Coffee, Editorial Design, Anatomy, Hardcore, Classical Music, Gold, Tattoos, Food, Fashion, Photography, Traveling, Interior Design, Calligraphy
SKILLS
Illustrating, handling an SLR camera, InDesign, Illustrator, Photoshop, Microsoft Office 15
1 Branding
17
Gone. Street Art gallery. A Street Art gallery that is placed in a building with big, high walls – for example a factory building. Every quarter of a year artists come and make the gallery their own. Painting, spraying, pasting the walls, floors and ceilings. With the end of the exhibition the artworks disappear with it. Are painted over. Are gone. [diploma project]
Barnabas Packaging for Plugs. Name finding, logo design and packaging concept for a product we could choose ourselves. In this case: handmade, organic plugs (alternative jewellry) made out of wood. [school project]
Die
Fundgrube New CI for a museums shop. Creation of a new Corporate Identity for the shop of the Volkskunde Museum of Vienna. Finding of new proposals and ideas in order to draw new and younger customers to the shop and thereby to the museum itself. [school project]
Gamed Real life contest. Creation of two different Identities for the two branches of Gamed – Pro Ganzheitsmedizin and Akademie fßr Ganzheitsmedizin. Core message: the human body seen alltogether. Challenge: the two Identities had to be different but had to still be associated with each other. [school group project]
Azimut Survival Brand. Name finding, logo design and conception of a survival brand. [school group project]
Savvy
Sinner Instruction manuals. Create a brand that sells instruction manuals for diverse reasons. My working partner and I chose to name our brand Savvy Sinner. It is meant to help people who fu**** up and now need to figure out how to overcome their problems. [school group project]
Chimera
Clothing Clothing line. Creation of an autonomous clothing line. Simple, minimalistic designs mix with crazy, sometimes excessive elements. [Bachelor project]
A[maze]ing Bachelor Exhibition. Role: Art Director. Conception of our exhibition theme and appearance. In this case: maze - black & white. Finding your way through chaotic situations, but still being able to finish your task (the Bachelor). Also, we wanted to have a clear way through the exhibition without having visitors to be left behind with a feeling of not having seen everything. Black & white keeps the whole look very clean and elegant. [school group project]
2 Infographics
35
Smile Info poster. Step one: accumulate data of peoples’ reactions when smiled at. Alterations regarding days, time of days and places. Step two: evaluate findings. Step three: find a way to show the results in an interesting and manifold way. [school group project]
Crank I Film poster. Telling a story of a film within one poster. But - the story had to be told in an unlinear way and had of course, still be understandable. [school project]
3 Illustration
41
Scarabeus Dotwork. Gold. Personal Illustration, 2013.
Givenchy Fashion. Personal Illustration, 2007.
Zombie
Geisha Tattoo commission. Customer work, 2012.
Crow on
Skull Ballpen. Neon. Personal Illustration, 2014.
Some
Lady Mixed Media. Personal work, 2014.
4 Photography
53
Chimera
Clothing Lookbook. Mood Photgraphs for the first collection of Chimera Clothing. [Bachelor project]
Mary Josephinum, Vienna. September, 2013. [personal project]
Horns Clee. January, 2014. [personal project]
Ella Home. February, 2014. [personal project]
DC Semperdetpot, Vienna. March, 2014. [personal project]
L’unico
elemento Album Art. Photographs taken for a CD project. Band: italian hardcore band, LeTormenta. [school project]
5 Typography & Layout
67
L’unico
elemento Album Art & Layout. Conception of an album art. Task: reflecting the feelings one gets while listening to the music. [school project]
Diaro di un
passato presente Album Art & Layout. Conception of an album art. After seeing my work for „l’unico elemento“ I did for school, the band was thrilled and asked me if I could layout their best of album. Like a diary. [customer work]
Tales
in tune Album Art & Layout. Conception of an album art for austrian pop-punk band, Escape Artists. [customer work]
Konzentrat Magazine for urban culture. Layout of a magazine and creation of a fitting modular font. [school project]
the end.
just kidding. it’s just the beginning.
call me. seriously. ‌or email me, that’ll be great too.
+43 (0) 680 317 72 65 hello@sarahdagostino.com