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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit.

Spectrums of Light - Color Wheel Design

Showing knowledge of a color wheel is a fairly easy thing to do, but it was so hard to decide on just one idea of how I wanted to execute this. The base of the color wheel always consists of red, yellow and blue, the primary colors. Hence the reason why there are primary colored circles above the person's head. It's very obvious I like rainbows and use them in my art as often as I can, but what better way to use a rainbow than in a color wheel project! The rainbow makes up the hair on the subject above. Lastly, the sparkles in the drawing are really fun and I feel that they show how exciting this project was for me.

Build An Identity - Branding Designs

To practice some of the graphic design and branding work we’ll be doing with clients this year, we started original identity design work by practicing with fake businesses. After learning about these businesses with a creative brief, we worked to design a set of logo concepts, a color scheme, and a demonstration half-page advertisement for them. My business was Discovery Zone, a child care center that wanted graphics to show how they are an exciting educational center for young children.

Design Brief - Montpelier Alive Holiday Graphics

A local company called Montpelier Alive hired our class to make fun holiday cards and an animation for downtown Montpelier's holiday shopping season. Keeping a neutral holiday theme and trying not to lean too much towards Christmas, I created this card in illustrator. Here we have Blipson, Oswald and Old-Pine Jones hanging out.

New Brew - Cappuccino Culture Drink Design

For this project, we designed a coffee can following specific guidelines. The name of the coffee company had to be Cappuccino Culture and the name of the flavor was Vermont Sunrise. On the left are some of the logos I brainstormed and on the right is the one I decided to use. DMA 2 judged our can designs and decided on who had the "best" can. Mine came in fist!

Paula Higa Dance Designs

For this project, we worked with a dance team based out of Burlington, Vermont. Led by Paula Higa, a professor of dance at University of Vermont, they specialize in deeply meaningful and metaphorical dance pieces to communicate through movement. Paula suggested we make designs with the PHD letter-mark and that we could reference Brazil, her native country, in our works. These are some logos and a demonstration social media banner that I submitted to be considered!

Learn more about Paula Higa Dance at https://www.paulahiga.com/

Vermont Network and Mosaic Social Change Graphic Designs

This was, by far, my favorite project out of the graphic design unit. Comics are definitely my thing, though they are difficult. I wanted to make something that would convey the message of healthy relationship examples to people of all ages, but especially teens like me. And what better way to make a relationship comic than to have relatable characters and different gender identities. I am a strong advocate for more representation of cultures and lgbtq+ characters (and couples) in media, especially cartoons and other teen/young adult media. Overall, I think this comic is something to be proud of and maybe I'll make a small impact with it.