Graphic Signs and Symbols: Koala Infographics

One of the best thing about this assignment is that I get to pick any endangered animal I would love to do and of course I picked Koala bears. At the zoo or aquarium info graphics need to be designed and installed next to the species exhibit, educating the public about the direct and indirect threats on their  environment. Pick one species that is endangered, research its environment and  what it eats. The info graphic needs to be informative and increase retention of the subject matter. Graphic simplicity will be created to represent info in a form of icons and symbols. Scale of icons will be effective when representing data. Pie charts and bar graphs are traditional forms of info graphics and not visually compelling.

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Traditional Aztec: Personal Typeface

For Typography 2 class, I was given 9 weeks to create a typeface for a client. I decided do for a traditional cultural shop called American Trails. My inspiration was aztec patterns and triangles. Those two are related because when I was doing my research, almost all aztec patterns are based on triangles.

There was a lot of drawing, sketching, and research for this project. It definitely was one of the big projects that I had to do and I pretty much spent almost most of my days working on this.

Simon and Schuster: Alice in Wonderland and Lord of the Flies

Simon and Schuster is a publishing corporate for books in New York city. For this project, I had to redesign some book covers that were published by them. There were a total of 4 book covers that needs to be redesigned, but these are the best 2 of all 4.

Lord of the Flies - William Golding (Constructed)
For the Lord of the Flies book cover design, I decided to do the constructed technique. The book is about children living in the wild and civilization. The writing of the title is a construction of leaves, soil, rocks, and everything I could find that is related to nature. I even gave some dirty soil smudges on the background to give a dirty look. I tried to keep the color palette to green and brown because those colors are related with nature. My goal is to have a wild and dirty look book cover.

Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll (Illuminated)
For this illumination piece, I decided to have mushrooms for my main focus. When I was doing my research on Alice in Wonderland, most of the pictures have mushrooms in the background. I also thought that mushrooms can be fun as they can have different colours and patterns. My goal is have a fantasy-looking, sweet, and complicated cover. The colors that I chose are pastels because those colors give a sense of sweetness and girliness to the piece. I added the brown frame so that the piece is not too wild or messy. It limits the audience’s point of view and help them focus on the title.

My Typography 2 class was definitely painful, but it was my most favorite class of my Fall 2012 term. I really appreciate Dale Gronso for all the strict grading and for treating all the students like professional Graphic Designers. After taking his class, I feel so productive because all of the workload every week is around 12-20 hours, but I learned so much from this class. Definitely was the most challenging because we were not allowed to use computer to create our visual on this class, there was a lot of sketching and roughs. No regrets!

Jayesslee Poster

Week 3: Digital Illustration

This is a 2-week and 3-color project. We had to pick whoever band/singer we want to design the poster for. I picked Jayesslee because they're my favorite duet. They are korean twins named Janice and Sonia Lee, they are in their 20s.

I wish they'll come to Portland for real, the date and venue aren't real

Three colors & Hues

Picture reference

Draft

I submitted my 'final draft' and my teacher gave us all another week to revise our reviewed piece. Here's my real final piece...

11x17 mounted on 15x20 black matte board

This poster made it to the school display wall! :)

Typography 2

Fall is here and here goes Typography 2. This is probably the busiest class I had to take in the history of Bachelor of Graphic Design. For the first class, I got like around 5 homeworks assigned. Good thing I liked the classes, so it was not as painful.

The first assignment is to draw letterforms: Sans Serif, Old Style, Transitional, Modern, and Black Letter. I had to draw a D because for the theme for my final typeface I'll be making is "Dream Catcher".

Barong Project

A couple of days ago, I was doodling on my tablet and decided to make a digital art using Adobe Illustrator CS5.

"Barong is probably the most well known dance. It is also another story telling dance, narrating the fight between good and evil. This dance is the classic example of Balinese way of acting out mythology, resulting in myth and history being blended into one reality."