Graphic Design by Hannah

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, visual communication is one of the many ways I like to create art both for my own enjoyment as well as to serve a greater purpose. I love to make abstract, clean and interesting art that makes you stop and think about how it all came together. One of my greatest strengths as a graphic designer would be creating different variations of a design as well as making most of my designs from scratch. I am a confident and experienced drawing artist, and using those hand-drawn concepts, I can bring my visual ideas to life digitally.

Between my skillsets with software and my skillsets with hardware, I tend to focus on software and the ways I can make clean and visually pleasing designs. I put a lot of time into exploring typography and graphic symbols and forms in every piece I create. The most important skills I have learned in my studies are composition; I find typography and color to be a few of the many important things to know to bring a design together with unity, harmony, and patterns.

In the future, I hope to turn the skills I have into a career as a visual artist in Vermont by offering my design skills to clients and offering printing methods such as vinyl printing, which I have also mastered in my studies. My weaker points as a graphic designer would be in the ways that I sometimes over-think a design; I can get stuck when I have an idea in mind and feel dissatisfied as I try to translate the idea into form. I also struggle with finishing when I am not being proud of what I have made. However, more practice can help these challenges! When people see my art I hope they are honest with their opinions because I’m always receptive to feedback and that they see my work as original and creative.

The Big Show- 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 Alan Walker!

color wheel design

For this project, we made original designs to showcase the primary and secondary colors in our own color wheel graphic. My design began as a pencil drawing that I added some vector shapes to complete, showcasing the colors as if they could be held like liquid.

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 digital 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 classic car to show the details as graphics!

Typography 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 using Adobe Illustrator and used text styled after JR Tolkein's handwriting and quotes from his writings!

Design Challenge- 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. For my design, I made a wolf howling using abstract colored triangle shapes drawn manually. It was chosen as the class winner by our Advisory Board for the challenge!

health nut branding packaging

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!

snowboard designs

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. My designs feature some original graphics I made of a fox and a snowboarder silhouette pattern.

Vermont Corporate Cup 5K Race Shirt/Logo Designs

For this project, we worked with the Vermont Governor's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports to help them develop designs for the 2020 Corporate Cup race in Montpelier. Our designs had to reflect the Vermont State capital building and visuals of runners to be featured on this year's t-shirt design. These were some highlights from the concepts I submitted to the group to review!

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 National Geographic Magazine featuring some foliage photography I shot over the fall!

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!

Personal logo/Branding Designs

For this project, we designed logos to represent ourselves as media artists. At the bottom are some of the ideation concepts, but my favorite is in the Facebook page banner mockup just below! I'll be using this logo for my professional media artwork to represent myself.

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. I made my designs for Muse and made some custom original futuristic 3D graphics to match their music style.

Practice Business Branding Package

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. These were the designs I made to reflect the company's goals and culture! My designs are for Coupé, a hair salon company who wanted to re-brand with a more elegant, high-fashion look. The package of my design ideas are on the left, and my final design is on the advertisement example on the right below!

Arts Riot Yard Sale Event Designs

For this project, we designed a full set of branding materials for a client that was hiring our class to create advertising materials for an event at Arts Riot, a venue in Burlington. Our design submissions had to help visualize the eclectic, hip, and exciting event that combined music, live art, local product sales, and more! The package of my design ideas are on the left, and my final design is on the example Facebook banner layout on the right below!

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 bow and arrow as a symbol of warfare but I built the symbol out of flowers and plants as a contrasting symbol of peace.

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.

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. Because the product was cherry-flavored, I named my drink "Cherry Bomb" and made these logos and the product design mockup below.

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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