Futura & Didot San Serif Shown Visually Typography, Illustrator, Poster These two differently styled posters are made to showcase the history, anatomy, and use of famous but different typefaces. One font showcased here is a very popular san-serif font, Futura. To show the time period from which it was made, the 1920s, the poster is designed in the art style, Bauhaus. This can be seen in strong geometric styling with bold and bright color choice of red and yellow. The other poster shows off another san-serif font, Didot. To show off its classic styling, it uses alternating colors of a light shade of tan and a dark shade of brown to demonstrate its class and age. This was made to replicate the style of older literature like 1800’s naval maps. On both of the posters shown, you can see the brief description featuring uses, the creator, when it was created and type anatomy icons showing off specific elements unique to the type. The audience for these pieces is anyone who enjoys type/simple designs. I validate the effectiveness of it being appealing to the eye, informative, and a clean design.
TN Studios Shirts
Live from CottonBureau.com Illustrator, Web, Apparel A Series of designed t-shirts with geometric designs sold online through the website, Cotton Bureau. All the designs were inspired by the world around me. One of the designs and most popular is “Equilateral”. It is a simple black shirt with a plain white design screen-printed on it, available in cotton shirt, a triblend shirt, a tank top, and pullover sweatshirt. It was originally based on simple sketch made from incomplete squares and it was inspired by series of minimalist designs/ tattoos. Another of the shirt design was “Broken Heart”. It is an anatomical looking heart done in a fragmented design of red and gray rectangular shapes. It was screen-printed on it, available in dark colored cotton shirt, tri–blend shirt, tank top, and pullover sweatshirt. The design was a reprise on one of my original design, “Rise”, a rising fist done in the same style of fragmented design of red and gray rectangular shapes. The last design and the newest is “Graphic T-Shirt”. It is a shirt with a handwritten looking kanji that translates to “Graphic T-shirt”. It is screen-printed, available in multiple colored tri–blend shirts including Indigo, Heather Grey, and Vintage Turquoise. It is inspired by Japanese Kanji but mainly Kohei Horikoshi, a Japanese Comic Book artist. The audience for these pieces is anyone who enjoys simple designs and fans of Japanese Culture. There is nothing else to add to it; All of these reach a younger audience of 14-40 with fans of geometric and nerdy designs. These shirts are available at:
Panic! at The Disco Concert Poster Series Band Awareness that Rocks
Photoshop, Illustrator, Poster, Print This poster series of poster promotes the tour dates of the popular band, Panic! at the Disco. The design of the poster is based off their most recent album design with their lead singer walking up a side of a building/standing on top/smoke trailing. The design uses very simple colors with white, black, and then bright colors with a handmade sky texture for the background. This also featured iconic city landmarks like the Jackson Tower, the Hollywood Theatre sign, the Hollywood sign, and the Space Needle. The skyline of each city they keep each poster unique. The main inspiration for this design came directly from the artists’ style and a very 80s vice theme using bright colors and different shades by their own work along with a very 80’s vice theme, with the use of bright colors and differing shades. The target audience is mainly for the ages of 14-30, who will appreciate the style and how it connects the artist/personality.
Candy Crate
Candy Store To Your Door Illustrator, Web, Wordpress A web project for a box subscription based around candy. Similar to other services like LootCrate, it is designed where a customer signs up for a box of ther interest and it is sent to their doorstep fresh and ready to enjoy. The Products differ on type from chocolate to fruity, to nuts to gummy to sodas to foreign products, to a variety pack. It has a very simple color sceme of black, white with some bright colors like pink, teal and purple. All functions of the site work properly and work with the user. It shows the brand image, products and the buying process in orderly fashion; Showing off the company and intiscing the buy with photography and vidid descriptions, then makes the buying process easy to understand and follow through. The target audience for this is everyone between the ages of 18- 40 who love gifting or enjoying sweets; perfect for college students or college parent with students. There are improvement to be made such as a proper packaging design, higher quality product photos, and possible logo update.
Green Mountain Conservation
Designed to the Good of Humanity InDesign, Illustrator, Poster, Web, Apparel The construction of a brand where all proceeds go towards a noble cause of nature protection. This included making the brand and several methods of showing off/sharing the brand in a method that show this perfectly. This included a web interface available on mobile, and desktop, a series of varying apparel items, and an informative infographic. The web interface is a several page web site that is being planned to be made in the future that has an about page, an events page, a donation page, and a web store neatly organized in a grid format. The apparel line includes metal water bottles, T-shirts, hoodies, tank tops, a canvas tote, and baseball caps with strong brand recognition with logo variations and is available in many different colors/fits. Lastly, there is a colorful infographic with a similar style to the logo and had interesting facts to interest people into the cause/bring more people. It will all reach a large audience based on its simplicity and important cause to the New England Area.
New Wave Diner
Classic food in a Dated Style InDesign, Illustrator, Print The menu is of a 80’s themed diner named New Wave, a throwback to 80’s style, pop culture, and classic dinner food. The design for the menu feature many different brightly colored lines on a dark background and a logo matching the theme. It shows with very bright pale colors giving it a look like a neon sign, dated sci-fi like colors, and matching custom typeface to match. On there, there is also a full menu with many items and full description classically seen. They are several items which are named after 80’s references from movies, TV, music, fashion and general 80’s life.The type is a styled font and a readable sanserif font with differing weight/styles depending upon the importantness. The menu items/prices are bolded and the descriptions are lighter and oblique; this shows levels of importance in the menu’s heiarchy. The target audience is mainly for the ages of 14-30, who will appreciate the 80’s style and culture.
Avenir in 3D
2D Typographical Print with Another Dimension Illustrator, Book, Print A small print booklet which demonstrates and explains the history, anatomy, usage of the san-serif font Avenir. It was inspired by the classic red and blue 3D styling effect used on older movies and print media like comic books. Each page of the book is dedicated to explaining a part of the font from the history, to the usage, to the anatomy, to the styles; along with a page dedicated to an inspirational quote and stylized photography. It achieves a 3D effect through anaglyphic effect combined with classic red and blue glasses. This can be seen on type, anaglyphic vector images, and layered photoshopped original pictures. The target audience for this is a business market group who work in large corporate design; This would allow them to see the type in a new light and how it can be used.
Frankenstein
Classic Horror with a Modern Look Illustrator, Print, Book A print project for a book cover redesign based of the classic, Frankenstein. Similar to other, it is designed where a customer is inticed to stop and look and be interested by the cover alone. A more modern aproach was taken in design with the choice in fonts with the modern type with a blackletter mixed. The colors were used to give a feeling of horror, gore and readability. Also, the graphics show classic symbolism connected to the story like a human brain, stitches, and lightning bolts. The target audience for this is everyone between the ages of 18- 40 who love gifting or enjoying sweets; perfect for students or adults who love classic stories/ horror.