My Process & Skills (7) Human Rights, Human Wrongs
This is my eighth and the last entry for this semester. Our class had a final assignment called “Human Rights, Human Wrongs”. “Human Rights, Human Wrongs” is a poster assignment that allows the student...
View ArticleMy Process & Skills (6) Twin Box
This is my product for Twin Box Project. Build two 4″x4″x4″ boxes. Then, present 2 companion concepts using your boxes. They can be opposites, twin deities, or any pairing that you would like. The...
View ArticleMy Process & Skills (5) Photo Book
This is my product for Photo Book Project. (I don’t know why but I couldn’t upload my photos on this blog, so I posted them to my site and linked to them below.) For this Book Project, our class had...
View ArticleBottle Project: Reveal.Conceal.
For the past month (or so), our class has been dedicated to the Bottle Project. The prompt was to take two empty Fiji bottles- a liter each- and transform them using any medium or any technique to...
View ArticleManhattan Street Performance: A Photo Essay
The process of developing my photo essay over the course of two months was an interesting one. For worse or for better, very little of my original idea survived to the final stages of the process. If...
View ArticleFelix Pfäffli
As I mentioned in my previous post, due to my trip to the Poster Show at the Cooper Hewitt last Spring (along with my work on posters for class), I have a newfound appreciation for poster design....
View ArticlePhoto Essay
For my photo essay, I started to think about the places that I was going to be for the next week. I knew I was going to be in New Orleans traveling the following week to look at wedding venues, so I...
View ArticleIkko Tanaka
Last May, I happened upon the “How Posters Work” show at the Cooper Hewitt museum. Today, I am embarrassed to admit that this was one of the first times I had really considered poster design to be an...
View ArticleMy Process & Skills (3) Photo Editing
Photo Essay assignment continues. Our first homework is to take minimum 100 pictures, print them as thumbnails, and cut them like mini cards. It was so hard to take hundreds pictures in 4 days (time we...
View ArticleHockney-Inspired Collage
When we were asked to create a photocollage using David Hockney’s own collages as inspiration in Process and Skills a few weeks ago, I was excited. Coincidentally, I had just been researching Hockney...
View ArticleThe Fragmented Self | Self Poster
So I’m fairly new to blogging, I’ve been keeping it off for a while, but my Professor, Carmile Zaino has can be quite convincing and I’m glad that I’m climbing onto a new digital platform, and...
View ArticleSelf-portrait poster
My first project from process and skills class was to design a self portrait poster. It needed to deliver specific attitude toward the audience and it had to be created by b&w photo which were...
View ArticleSelfie Poster
I started my selfie poster by going to a local bar I know that has one of the selfie booths and I took a series of photos that I thought would allow my personality to come through a little bit. I...
View ArticleMy Process & Skills (2) Photo Essay
Our second assignment for Process & Skills was an Photo Essay. “To take effective pictures you need to train your eye to see the world as the camera does” — the instructor mentioned. So I went...
View ArticleA Visit to the Cooper Hewitt
This past Wednesday, my Graphic Design 1 class taught by Julia Gorton took a trip to the Cooper Hewitt Museum to view the Poster Exhibit and the Wallpaper Exhibit. Exhibitions aside, the Cooper Hewitt...
View ArticleLife Magazine Stories with Michael Durham
This past week in Process & Skills, we met Michael Durham, a former photographer, reporter, and researcher at Life, who came to speak to our class about his experiences working for the magazine....
View ArticlePhotojournalism: LIFE and Walid Raad
This week, our class was given the opportunity to hear Michael Durham, a reporter, correspondent, and editor at LIFE magazine, speak. In addition to it being a fabulous examination of LIFE...
View ArticleProject 1- Self Portrait Poster
For my first poster project in Process & Skills (online), I was inspired by the idea of a sound wave because it conveys my life-long passion for music. Final Poster, Julia Mahre
View ArticleProject #1: The Self-Poster
For our first project of the fall 2015 semester, we graphic-designers-in-training were asked to design a black and white self-poster over the course of three weeks. The requirements: Use a black and...
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