Graphic Design by Finn

Welcome to my Graphic Design page!

Below are examples of my design work to create graphics that communicate ideas, solve problems, and present artistic compositions.

Click here to read my graphic design artist statement

As a graphic designer, I enjoy the creative process of planning and designing projects that are visually meaningful. A lot of my projects offer a fun and interesting “cover” but have a deeper meaning and communicate on deeper levels.

One of my greatest strengths as a graphic designer is to have lots of creative ideas when thinking visually. To support this strength, I now have the skills using software and hardware to make these concepts into reality. I make strong usage of image tracing functions to vectorize my work and give it a more geometric look. I also enjoy using the pen tool for custom shapes and the features of aligning art for a more purposeful layout.

Between my skillsets with software and my skillsets with hardware, I tend to focus on the software because it is the most important part in my graphic process. In the future, I hope to offer my skills professionally and make logos and graphics for clients and companies with my graphic design skills through on a website or by working with a design team.

Triangle design

This project was part of a 90-minute design challenge where we had to create a unique design of our own using only triangle shapes as building blocks.

Get Hyped- Energy Drink Design

For this project, we developed a name and visual concept for a new cherry-flavored energy drink. We designed logos and made mockups to show our branding on the actual can package. I came up with the name "Dang Energy" and made several designs- I showcased my favorite on this product mockup.

Cartoon Portrait

For this project, we learned to use the Pen Tool to make cartoon portraits of ourselves. We also learned to use our vinyl printer by printing these out as stickers!

Car Drawing

For this project, we mastered the pen tool and manual digital drawing techniques to make complete vector drawings of cars, vehicles, and complicated shapes. Using a photo to guide me, I made my digital drawing of a DeLorean- Back to the Future style!

Typography Art design

For this project, we created a piece of graphic art using typography as our main tool. The typeface I used is meant to contribute to the image concept. I made my design on Rango using the typeface Apple Chancery.

Healthnut Candy Bar Design

For this project, we practiced branding and logo design to create a series of logos for a fictional company that was making a peanut-butter bar that was tasty as candy and healthy as a nutritional bar. After designing some logos, we created mockups to show the logos in action on a demonstration of the packaging!

Event Poster Design

For this project, we designed standard tabloid-sized posters to advertise events we would like to see at Vermont's biggest venue, Higher Ground. To make our designs, we were only allowed to use one unoriginal asset and had to design the rest ourselves using graphic design principles! For my poster, I am advertising for Meth Wax!

Snowboard Design

For this project, we designed our own snowboards to honor the passing of Jake Carpenter, the Vermont native and inventor of the Snowboard and owner of Burton.

Magazine Cover Design

For this project, we analyzed real magazines and made design mockups using the exact sizing specifications of their cover layouts. Once we got all the sizing and design trends right, we used our own original photography and typography/color designs to re-create the magazine cover on our own. This was my design for Outside Magazine!

Lazer Dad Band Promo Designs

For this project, we worked with a band in Burlington, VT who play music in the style of the 1990's. They hired us to design new logos that they could use online and as stickers to promote their band. These were the designs I submitted, playing on the visual style of the 1990's!

Color Wheel Design

For this project, we made original designs to showcase the primary and secondary colors in our own color wheel graphic. I showcased the colors including some tertiary hues as slices of a pizza using adjustment layer coloring!

Pawsitive Attention Pet Care- Business Branding Practice

For this project, we were given creative briefs that outlined information about fake businesses based on real local businesses that were seeking a re-branding with logos, advertisements, color schemes, and more. I made designs for a pet care company who wanted to have clever branding about pet care.

Going Platinum- Album Art Design

For this project, we researched a musical artist and made mood boards about their style and artistic approach. Then we designed our own album art for one of their albums, showing a consistent concept across the cover, inside, traycard, and disc art.

Personal Branding Concepts

For this project, we designed logos to represent ourselves as media artists. On the left are some of my ideation concepts, but my favorite is in the Facebook page banner mockup that I made up top.

Morningstar Property Management

This was another class client we worked with to re-brand their property management company. We designed color schemes, logos, and web-ready animations for them to use on their website.

Design Challenge- When Opposites Attract

This was a design challenge when we had a time limit to create our own design concept. This design concept was to create a visual that was built up of opposite or different objects in an artistic way. For my design, I made a tank out of flowers.

National Board Certified Teacher Poster Design

This was one of our class client jobs- we designed posters with original visual elements for the Vermont NBCT chapter to award their teachers this year. My design was the runner-up pick by the team of educators who hired us for this job.

Willi's Wine Bar- Graphic Design Recreation Challenge

For this class design challenge, we had 90 minutes to recreate a design by AJ Cassandre made in the 1930's in the Art Nouveau style for a wine bar in Paris. To recreate the design, we had to study the layout and graphic elements by eye and make our design from scratch in Adobe Illustrator. This is a side-by-side comparison of my submission compared to the original!

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