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LAU CONNECTions MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 DESIGN PUBLISHING AND BRANDING
HALLOWEEN CARD AND CANDY BOX DICUTS AND PACKAGING
ARCHITECTURE BOOK COVERS DICUTS AND PACKAGING
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PLAY PRODUCTION POSTERS AND TICKETS GRAPHICS AND PRINTS
CHARCTER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS DIGITAL & TRADITIONAL PAINITNG
“ALL THE BLUE BOOKS” ANIMATED SHORT DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION &ANIMATION
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LAU CONNECTions MAGAZINE ISSUE 2 DESIGN PUBLISHING AND BRANDING Complete design, layout and branding of Annual Communication-Arts departmental magazine “CONNECTions Issue 2�. Published and distributed on March 19, 2019. The magazine included several different subsections that required unique or varying designs and color pallettes. However the base color pallette was to be purple for the generic articles and title pages, following the departmental color. The departments use of Brackets for their announcment flyers was used as a basis for the branding design of the magaizne, where Framing became a guiding design element within the article layouts.
HALLOWEEN CARD AND CANDY BOX DICUTS AND PACKAGING
Companion Halloween Card and Candy Apple Box Designs. The Card has a slide down feature revealing the invitation textin a poison-dripping-down-the-apple manner. This also allows for an additional space for party specifications to be written at the slid-down area of the card. The Candy Box was designed to open in a gift like manner to reference the trope of a witch gifting a poison apple.
OPEN CARD DESIGN: FRONT AND BACK
OPEN CARD DESIGN: INSIDE SLID DOWN
UNFOLDED BOX DICUT LAYOUT DESIGN
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ARCHITECTURE BOOK COVERS DICUTS AND PACKAGING
The Project aimed to successfully juggle between both Photoshop and Illustrator to achieve the maximum potential of their respective abilities through use of EPS files. The designs of the covers were obtained throught Photoshop, then taken to Illustrator to for texts, layouts and dicuts.
OPEN SLEEVE DESIGN AND DICUT - A3 LAYOUT
OPEN SLEEVE DESIGN AND DICUT - A2 LAYOUT
PLAY PRODUCTION POSTERS AND TICKETS GRAPHICS AND PRINTS Designed and used for several student theatre productions in the Lebanese American University, the Graphics and prints included Play posters, try-out posters, entrance trickets and program playbills. Designs include a combination of raster collages and blended textures, digital paintings, and vector layouting.
“SMALL WORLD” THEME-UNIQUE TICKETS
“FRIENDS” CHARACTER CUSTOMIZED TICKETS
“SMALL WORLD” PLAYBILL
“FRIENDS” PLAY POSTER
“FRIENDS” TRY-OUTS POSTER
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CHARCTER DESIGN AND ILLUSTRATIONS DIGITAL & TRADITIONAL PAINITNG
Digital Illustrations drawn and rendered on Photoshop using a Wacom Tablet. Characters designed can range from original to visualized book characters, to reimagined live action characters in 2D animation styles.
DIGITAL CHARACTER ILLUSTRATIONS FOR BOOK CHARACTERS
EMOTION VISUALIZATION OF BOOK CHARACTER
2D RE-IMAGINING OF LIVE ACTION TV CHARACTERS
SELECTED PIECES FROM INKTOBER 2018 - TRADITIONAL INK GRAPHICS
“ALL THE BLUE BOOKS” ANIMATED SHORT DIGITAL ILLUSTRATION &ANIMATION Drawn and rendered on photoshop with appropiate layers then imported into Aftereffects to be animated using key frames and simple puppet tools. The Short animation is a total of 2 minutes and 22 seconds. SYNOPSIS: Different People walk the Earth leading totally seperate lives than one another, but somehow, they have something in common: A Single Blue Book. The clock strikes 6 AM, somewhere else, a young couple enjoy a reading date together, while another woman is eagerly delving into this book. Its still 6 am. The book is also being read as an ebook by a third woman. Some people are ignoring the book on their shelf. Its still 6 am. Someone is watching TV while the other is reading this book on the sofa. Its now 6:01 AM, the sun shines into the room of a boy who fell asleep reading the famous blue book: “How to wake up early”. The book failed to help him. PROJECT POSTER
ILLUSTRATED STORYBOARDS AND KEYFRAME ANIMATIONS
SCREEN SHOTS OF RENDERED AND ANIMATED SCENES
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