Illustration Friday: Jazz

For some reason, I am a little obsessed lately with fish. Not sure why, but my little sketchbook already has 5 of them. Anyway, what would be better to play the saxophone than a fish?

End of Fifth Quarter

This quarter was so much fun! I really enjoyed all my teachers and learned a bunch. I feel like I'm finally getting what design is. Especially with type, which is where I've been struggling.

First, my favorite project from Content Creation class, Pan-Galactic Gargle Blaster: a campaign for a fictional brand (from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy) that is used to promote Barnes & Noble's NOOK and latest, 40th anniversary edition of the book. The drink, though alcoholic in the book, is made out of non-alcoholic ingredients and can be purchased at the Barnes & Noble's Starbucks stores in either cans or as Gargle Blasterccino.

The Beverage

The Starbucks poster

The poster in its environment

The new book cover

The Gargle Blaster ad on Barnes & Noble's webpage

What you get when you click on the ad

Next project is the one for Systems Design, where I revisited a project from first quarter, which not many people do... It is very different now, though: Raju's Tree. This is a branding system for a Disney Adventureland drop-tower ride. But it's more than just a ride, it's a whole experience that aims to empower tween girls to try new things and find new capabilities within themselves.

Cut-paper ride poster, this time in color and done digitally

t-shirt you can get at the gift shop

Ride webpage on Disney's website

Second photo in the slideshow on the webpage

When you scroll down you get the details

A pamphlet you get at the entrance to the ride

with a map of activities while you wait

more merch - learn to play the flute

Bullet-journal type book you can also get at the gift shop - front cover

One of the inside spreads

For Type 3 we had to create a campaign to promote some underrepresented/misrepresented group of our choice. I chose Down syndrome, particularly addressing parents (or parents-to-be) to children who have just been diagnosed with the syndrome. The purpose of the campaign is to show these parents the brighter sides of having a child with Down syndrome, as explained by families with Down syndrome members.

 

Finally, in Video Storytelling I learned how to create and edit videos in Premier Pro, which is very useful. Here's a link to a playlist of some of the videos I created:
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2mXcnet6cVLOH-L3SAzEDShL1zwbObyc

I'm not all that pleased with the videos and animations, but I see it as a learning process. One cannot create great things without starting with crappy ones.

Illustration Friday: Recipe

Illustration Friday: Samurai

Of course, a samurai would be a cat, right?

Illustration Friday: Mail

This week's topic made me think about how most mail used to be letters, but now, in the days of email and Amazon, most of the mail one gets is either junk or packages. This must be much harder for the carrier pigeon.

Illustration Friday: Pizza II

Illustration Friday: Pizza

I recently got some Kyle brushes (the gouache set) and today I started experimenting with it. As I was layering colors on the canvas, with different layer modes, it sort of reminded me of pizza, so I tried to make it more deliberately pizza like.

Illustration Friday: Hair III

This week's topic just keeps me going...

Illustration Friday: Hair II

Trying a new style with ballpoint pens.

Illustration Friday: Hair