Our assignment for this project was to create a set of 1-inch buttons and a poster of a certain era in graphic design and showcase it as if it were to be used at the Blanton Museum for an exhibit. I decided to choose one of my favorite eras in design which is Swiss design aka International Style. After that, I had to figure out a system of how many buttons to create. I decided to create 18 buttons which includes 3 buttons for each day the museum is open. The guest would either receive an informative button, a button of the artis for that day, or a button of the artist's most famous work. The designs of the poster and buttons work well together because I made them reminiscent of the International Style of design.
In this project, we were asked to create a program booklet for an event titled TASA 2012. These events exist but we had to design it as if the event was being held at St. Edward's that year. There was a lot of content in this book so I decided to put all of the information in the document and then figure out a grid, color, and type system from there. I decided to go with a gray and blue color scheme but I also added a special part of the book for easy navigation. This part is shown in the last picture and I created a foldable layout that makes it easy to see both the schedule and map of Austin. You can also close the book and keep the map sticking out for easy reference. Because of this layout, it is not viewable as a PDF and I took pictures to showcase the main parts of the book.
In this assignment, we used After Effects to animate a futuristic weather report. It needed to have 3 transitions so mine consisted of Location, Time, and Category. It may be abstract, but I feel I succeeded in creating a futuristic theme. I learned many After Effects skills with this project.
The Kitchen of Meaning project is one where we needed to define a word by using illustrations and other elements of design. My assigned word was "zeitgeist". As a part of the project, we needed to provide a design synopsis and it is as follows: "For a word that is defined as “the spirit of the
times”, I went for a different approach from the American Flag idea to define
zeitgeist. Since zeitgeist is based off of a certain time period, I decided to
base my design on a time period that has much history behind it, the 1960’s.
The 1960’s is represented on my poster by the color scheme, the typefaces I
chose, and the different symbols that define the sprit of that time period. I
decided to make a symbol for every person in the class and placed their names
under them to show that the 1960’s was a time period that the people played a
big part of, not just events or ideas."
Our goal of this project was to design a set of instructions for a certain goal that is easy to follow. My topic was "How to Mail a Package". My intentions were to create these instructions as if they were a link on the USPS website. These instructions were designed in Flash so that you can click through each step of the instructions with ease.
