Remember this?
It was Jill’s first day of class icebreaker. The first person (me) writes down a short sentence. Notice I was trying to be cute with my nod to typography. The next person draws an image of the sentence. The next person looks at that image and writes a sentence explaining what it is, and so on and so forth, like an effed up game of telephone. It is an exercise about visual communication (plus it makes a great drinking game). The way mine turned out always made me laugh and as our first year at SCCA is coming to end, I thought it would be appropriate to share it.

This poster was for a fictional gallery exhibit and was done entirely in Photoshop.

I kept wanting to do something with the Seattle skyline and one of Galyn’s terrariums inspired me to put it in one. Combined with a photograph of April’s hand holding some terrarium tweezers, I had my poster. It helped me learn quite a bit about photoshop techniques but that I have a lot more to learn.

This throwback Friday (that’s not a real thing I know) is our first real design poster done waaay back in Fall 2013. I have been meaning to add this to my blog for a while, so here it is. Looking back, I still very much like this poster though I feel as if that is a bad thing. You are probably not supposed to like things you did in the beginning of the year because you are supposed to think hey I could have made it so much better. But whatever, I like it.

Something that Jill said I could improve on, which I agree with, is the “Canadian Tulip Festival 2014″ type treatment. I wanted to tie it in with the graphite pencil drawings, but it isn’t well incorporated into the design.

But like I said, I like it. I pulled Dutch still-life paintings of tulips and photoshopped them together. Then I traced over it with pencil and scanned it in. My concept was: join in with the tradition of the tulip festival while making your own traditions.

This is our first project for Package Design Class. Our parameters were that it had to be a glass bottle, but no wine or hard liquor. Our target audience was middle America, which to me meant our instructor did not want any hipster nonsense.

As a vinegar lover, I went for Apple Cider Vinegar and channeled that vintage-inspired fruit box style. I was picturing a label that had not changed in 50 years except for a couple gradients here and there.