Article Cover - Marine Life

This project from my Typography Design class looks deceptively easy. The requirements were to read an article about anything relating to science, and to then create an article cover page for it (or pages in my case). We were not to create our own drawings, so I did some web searches for images and articles.

I designed a double-page layout with a full bleed image. The only information I added was the footer with page numbers, and the article title. The text paragraph is pulled from an article in The Guardian online and the photo from a blog called Tangledwing. I named my fictional magazine Science for this project, and had to follow guidelines from our class lecture for paragraph sizes etc. I used Adobe Illustrator (my current favorite!!).

Let me know what you think!

8th Grade Science Book (Part II)

The second part of the project for Computer Design was to create a simple web layout for the science textbook from the previous assignment.

The text for each tab was given in the assignment guidelines, but I created everything else on the page. It's a non-working website because the exercise was only to create the layout. We had to use some of the images and colors from the textbook design from the first part of the assignment.

I created the background and the lines for all the tabs, added the images and text. Let me know what you think!

8th Grade Science Book

This project was a ton of fun, which I haven't had in class in a long time! The goal was to simulate parts of a chapter from a 7th or 8th grade class science textbook. We had to include a cover and reference page, and use some text from the Internet relating to our subject.

First, we had to create 3 illustrations that we would later add to our final product. I chose Meteorology as my subject and broke it down to the titles you see at the top of each page. I used Adobe Illustrator (for the first time) to create 10 sketches about 4 weeks ago. From those, I picked the best 3 and embellished them with color and text; they are the images on the middle pages. I also used some effects to make the drawings three-dimensional in the case of the sun and planet.

Then, we had to use any text from the Internet that had to do with our images, so it would show the layout. Finally, we had to create a cover page for the textbook and a reference page, and also include a footer on each page. I am very happy with the final result!

A special shout out goes to my nephew B. for helping me find information from his 6th grade textbook as inspiration :)

Let me know what you think :)

Textbook Cover

Conceptual assignment to recreate Johannes Itten's book cover for The Art of Color. I used Adobe Illustrator to design it and I'm pretty psyched about how it turned out. Let me know what you think! :)

Nature

Nature. Color pencils (June 2012).

Hand drawing sketch of a peaceful landscape inspired by one of Bob Ross' paintings. For this assignment we had to create a drawing reminiscent of a famous artist and only use analogous colors (colors that are next to each other on the color wheel). I chose blues and greens to maintain a feeling of calm and serenity since the landscape is a relaxed nature scene. We also had to create the illusion of depth, so I hope I did that :)

Painted Blocks

Blocks. Acrylic paint (June 2012).

Inspired by Mondrian's paintings of squares in red, yellow and blue, I painted blocks using bright colors from the Fauvist movement.

Face Mask

Face Mask. Acrylic paint (June 2012).

This painting was for a Fundamentals of Color class assignment, where we had to create a painting inspired by the Fauvist movement. Fauvism was created in the early 1900s in France by Henri Matisse and was short lived but included artists such as Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin and Paul Seurat.

They were named Les Fauves (meaning Wild Beasts) by a reporter of the time. Art from this movement used bright colors, mostly primary. They also used rough short brush strokes to give the work an animalistic feel.