graphic design II - bauhaus bio

Back to some portfolio pieces, finally! This month's classes are Graphic Design II and Web Design Principles. So, the first assignment for Graphic Design was to choose an abstract painting by Piet Mondrian and replace the squares with self-descriptive images.

The graffiti is from the webcomic xkcd and reads:

This graffiti is

Fleeting human contact

Both of us lost

But for a moment

We're lost together

I wonder who you are

I love that author's dark humor.

mondrian bio @photobucket

color wheel

This week's assignment for Print Production and Color Theory 114 was to design a color wheel showing primary, secondary and tertiary colors, with labels and an indication of the mathematical relationships between the colors.

I thought of spherical fountains, such as the one in front of the former Hansen Planetarium in Salt Lake City. The concept behind them is a beautiful geometry. They produce many tiny rainbows in the mists and streams. So, I decided to make my color wheel as if it were a single plane cut out of the fountain, capturing a flash of color.

color wheel @ photobucket

romania brochure - indesign

This travel brochure was the final project for InDesign class. The front flap is half the total width of the brochure, overlaid to complete a picture of the Carpathian range, one flap showing clear skies, the other, a storm. Please note the font problem on the interior. Where there ought to be an apostrophe, there is an "i" so that what should be "land's" becomes "landis". This problem doesn't occur anywhere else that the apostrophe is used with the same font. I could force a repair by producing an outline of the text in Illustrator before placing it in ID. I've left it as a personal reminder of the pitfalls of using more obscure, amateur, or unlicensed fonts. Always check before sending to the printer.

links to brochure:

exterior

interior

egg deco

Well, enough chatter for now. This is supposed to be my portfolio. Let's get to it, then.

Egg Deco, the font I designed for a final in Typography 113.

introduction #1

Starting is the hardest part. For this reason, it's the easiest step to procrastinate on. I created this blog a week ago and have pretty much sat on my hands over it since then. I knew I had to start eventually, but my habit of eleventh-hour breakthrough wasn't going to come to the rescue. How many of us assign deadlines to our personal projects, after all? Nope, the realization came quickly that I'd have to rely on good old self-discipline. Not one of my strong suits. And yet, here we are. I'm writing and you, you somehow stumbled across my little hole in the Internet and have found these words. Whether or not you're reading them is another story, but well, am I fit to try my hand at design if I can't hold your attention just long enough to cover one paragraph? Ah, but now you might have to wonder if anything I wrote here was true or if I was fabricating a tale I thought might keep you interested.

If I seem dishonest or even stupid for contriving this little trick, eh, it's true. Everything above is accurate, but this is an entirely artificial attempt to hook you. And I don't really think it will work. Still, this is how we start. Like any first meeting, awkward and more than a bit faked. What matters is where we go from here, wouldn't you agree?