concept map

For me, the hardest part about this project was handling the jargon associated with the financial crisis, so that anyone could easily understand the concept without overcrowding the poster. I separated terms into categories: 5 biggest terms, secondary terms, key players, negative/loaded terms, and tertiary terms.

image analysis

The purpose of this project was to utilize all of the design history knowledge attained throughout the semester, through the dissection and identification of a modern image. I took a Fleet Foxes album cover--using it as a base--and layered sheets of vellum on top, with each sheet identifying a different historical art or design movement. I wanted each section and movement to be isolated, but also be seen in context. If I were to redo this project, I would use a more transparent vellum so each layer could be seen, even at the first layer.

kitchen of meaning

This project was an exercise in really understanding the meaning of a given word and also the world in which that word lives. We had to illustrate the meaning of the word on a poster, while advertising a theoretical exhibition in the Fine Arts Center.

personal geography

perceptual map

In creating this version, I wanted to convey both the intensity and duration of each sense. I used opacity to express the intensity of certain events, where the more opaque icons represent more stimulating things or feelings. The rectangles represent the duration of each sense.

cognitive map

My cognitive map was created based on some of the decisions I make on my way to class and their relationship to various factors. As seen in the map, each determinant influences my decisions, and thus produces different outcomes, or events.

artifact map

For this map, I was influenced by my actual drive to campus and the feeling that I was driving in a single direction on the interstate, ignoring its actual shape and direction. So, in creating the map, I opted to eliminate curves and solely use lines.

scales: russian constructivism

Do you take baths or showers?

 

What annoys you most in others?

What is religion?

For this project in Image Methodology, we utilized our skills in Photoshop as well as various images we generated to answer a set of questions in a specific, historical design style or movement. This particular set was to be modeled in the vein of Russian Constuctivism. To do so, I used geometric shapes,  black and white images as well as a pale yellows and bright reds, a color palette found in nearly every Russian constructivist poster. The questions answered are listed above each work.

design culture now

new poster

original

In typography class, our first project was to create a poster focusing on hierarchy while incorporating a contemporary modern design aesthetic. The poster I designed below illustrates the Do-It-Yourself scene prevalent in Austin through a geometric type I created in Illustrator and a charcoal brush stroke on the dates, lines, and designer's names.

I made changes to the original poster in attempt to make it a little bit more refined.