Graphic Design by Micah

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 using my imagination. If an idea comes to mind, I utilize graphics and visual art to create what I have imaged in my head. When I first started my studies of graphic design, I didn’t think I would enjoy it. However, after mastering the software and exploring with many different design prompts, I have come to really like it. One of my favorite projects created so far in my portfolio was the Album Cover Project where I designed packaging to support my own music with abstract visuals and an explosive color scheme.

One of my greatest strengths as a graphic designer is to make grime art, a style of art tied the music community that is popular right now. I really enjoy the style of cartoonish and slime art and I find it super fun to make. I also enjoy designing logos for companies as it showed me the business perspective of Graphic Design and how you can represent a brand identity through a visual without needing words. For graphic design on a personal aspect, I really enjoyed making album covers and tying my designs to music and culture.

Between my skillsets with software and my skillsets with hardware, I tend to focus on the software. 99% of the designs I make in my graphic design studies have been made entirely with software. I barely used any real life source outside of Adobe Illustrator, and this is something that is critical in my process. In the future, I hope to make a lot more grime art and album covers with my graphic design skills.

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 custom graphics of a gun encrusted with flowers.

PERSONAL BRANDING logo Designs

For this project, we designed our own personal logos to use for our own professional art careers or to stamp our productions. Here are some of the concepts I thought of. I personally like the first one and have started using it!

Burton Snowboard Designs

For this project, we designed our own snowboards. I decided to make a grime art of Jake Burton to pay homage to a legend. Check out the second slide to see the full sized artwork I designed!

Album Cover Design

For this project, our job was to create an album cover for either an existing band or for a custom band. I decided to make a custom cover for an album of music I'm making under my alias MKezar. Scroll to see the back side art of the album as well!

Cartoon Portrait

For this project, we learned to use the Pen Tool inside Adobe Illustrator to make cartoon portraits of ourselves.

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!

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 my car!

Color wheel design

For our color wheel project, we had to design a visual representation of the color spectrum with primary and secondary colors in a creative way. I created a geometric representation of Mount Matterhorn.

Healthnut Snack 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 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. These are my three favorite designs I created.

Event Poster Design

For this project, we designed standard tabloid-sized posters to advertise events we would like to see. 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 made a design for an upcoming event in Quebec called Bass Ship. After designing a grime logo for the event title, I used glitch effects on some nautical imagery and prepared each performer's logo for an easy-to-read but edgy design.

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 had a ton of fun playing around with this concept and made a whole series of energy drink can designs; some as new concepts and some as visualizations of previous projects if they were utilized for a canned product cover!

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!

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!

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 retro visual style with some different concepts.

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 as a visual representation of Anarchy- the outline of the symbol is all typography and the symbol is filled with statements and ideas using the typeface Bebas Neue which looks bold and powerful in all caps.

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 Bob Ross!

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. For my design, I used typography on top of some original landscape photography to show all the teachers names in a vibrant way.

Practice Branding/Logo Designs- The Car Guys

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 Car Guys, a local autobody shop that specialized in foreign makes and models.

Morningstar Property Management Designs

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.

Typography Alignment Design

For this project, we practiced arranging and designing with typography by creating a custom typography art piece in InDesign using spacing, leading, tracking, and justifying. These words are aligned and set over some astrophotography I shot this year.

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