Cooking Club Organization Logo

It's been quite a hectic week for me, especially all the things happening after midterm. More projects assigned, more time spent on Illustrator, and catching due dates. After the Jayesslee Poster, my instructor assigned another 2-week project. The objective is:
Create a logo for an organization. The team may be any athletic or activity based club but is must be a realistic and substantial category that has a possible national representation (ie: sailing, sewing, literature, jogging, biking, film groups, chess, craftmakers, arts union, etc). Focus on the imagery and execution, and keep the name and readability clear and simple.

I decided to focus on a cooking club focusing on Italian food called "Bon Appetit".

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".

Patterned Triangles

Exactly 1 week before school starts, I decided to make myself busy by assigning a project to myself. I am obsessed with patterns and triangles and was wondering why not I make something by combining those two.

String Heart

So, a few months ago I found a DIY tutorial of a heart made of strings. I was tempted to try it, but never had the time. Finally, I got some free time and decided to try it. All you need for this project are:

- A piece of wood (you can get them for free at Home Depot, on the very back of the store.)
- String (any color you like)
- Spray Paint (optional)
- Nails

I kinda regret that I didn't spray paint the woodblock beforehand. I might want to do something bigger with a darker background sometime in the future. Be careful that the back of the wood might be sharp because of the nails that got through. It took me around 45 minutes to do this project. Might be fun to do different shapes like stars, triangles, or random shapes. Good luck!

Burton Snowboard

Burton snowboard design for women aged 18 to 25. It was inspired by: High School Musical 3 because aged 18 is when they graduate from high school and get their yearbooks. All those doodles and illustrations on scrapbooks or yearbooks reminded me of the joy to freedom. My keywords were: dreamy, fantasy, and joy.

The castle on the middle of the board symbolizes fantasy and happiness because those castles only appears in fairytales and dreams. It symbolizes happiness because it also symbolizes "Disneyland" which is the happiest place on earth. The doodles shows infatuation of high school students where they make drawings on their notebooks.

Print Production

I finally had the chance to blog. I've been busy and lazy to update my blog for this past few weeks. Summer is hereee! I don't have school until October 1, 2012 :) I just made this collage a few days ago, basically my final project from Print Production class. And this is a brochure I made about embossing.

This project was probably the most fun project I've ever done well on. It took me around 60 hours to finish all this. It was totally worth it, all done in Illustrator and InDesign.

I had a great chat with my elementary friend, Leonardo Laurensius who turns out to be in the same field as me. Check out his artworks that he just uploaded. Cheers!