Graphic Design by Devin
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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit.
Hit the Slopes- Snowboard Designs
For this project, we made our own snowboard designs with a completely open-ended prompt! We made these as an homage to Jake Carpenter, the Vermont native who founded Burton snowboards and passed away in 2019. Using an official board mockup project file, these original designs are offered as a pitch to Burton for a new board design!
Vermont Network and Mosaic Designs
For this project, we partnered with The Vermont Network to create graphics that addressed issues of violence, disrespect, mental health, and other challenges that young people face. After a presentation from the local group Mosaic who work to protect victims of sexual violence, we chose and researched topics that could be used by The Vermont Network and their state-wide partners to promote healthy relationships and prevent violent behaviors. Using the organizations’ brand toolkits to guide us, these designs were offered as posters and square social media posts to promote their work, and this will be shared all across the State. I made my designs about the 6 Key Relationship Concepts they taught us to value. A lot of people have lost sight of these concepts and it's important to bring some attention to them.
Learn more about The Vermont Network and Mosaic by clicking on the links!
Personal Media Artwork Branding Logos
For this project, we designed logos to represent ourselves and our own professional work as media artists. After brainstorming and creating some logo ideas, we shared these with the class for feedback and finalized our designs with social media banners to advertise the work we will be creating into the future. Look out for this logo more soon!
Holiday Animation and Postcard Design for Montpelier Alive
For this project, we worked with an organization called Montpelier Alive to create original graphics for postcards and animation to decorate downtown Montpelier. The animations were turned into a full reel sequence and are being projected onto large building walls in downtown Montpelier this holiday season, so if you are in Vermont, make sure to check out our work in person!
Press play on the video file to jump to my animation sequence.
Cappuccino Culture - Coffee Drink Can Design
This project was a class design challenge to create a logo and package design for a new coffee drink by a fictional company called Cappuccino Culture. For this challenge, Cappuccino Culture were hiring our class to design branding and a package “cover” for a new iced coffee drink called Cocoa Immersion. I had only a couple hours to make this design. This is where I ended up.
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 lettermark 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/
Logo Designs - Branding Work
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 Ornamentals, a 3D jewelry printing business, and they wanted their branding to reflect this.
The Big Show - Event Poster Design
For this project, we practiced designing posters for shows taking place at Vermont’s biggest music venue, Higher Ground in Burlington. Although we were allowed to use a logo and a photo of the performers, this design is fully original. It's very similar to other posters, but I wanted to keep it simple. Can't wait to see Steven Spielberg's new version in the upcoming weeks!
Three Sides Is All You Need! - Triangle Vector Art
For this Adobe Illustrator project, we used the shape tool to create an image purely out of triangles. It was a lot of fun and if I had to revisit this project I would go back and try to work on improving the shading/dabble in gradients.
Of course, I decided to go with the familiar theme of Star Wars and chose one of the most angular characters.
We did this as a class challenge and our advisory board voted my design the best technical design in the class!
Cartoonize Yourself - Vector Art
To kick off our exploration of Illustrator's Pen Tool, we created ourselves entirely out of vector shapes and curves. It was a fun way to get used to a tool that, before recently, I despised.
We later turned our vector art into stickers using the vinyl printer. My comic-cartoon self now lives on my waterbottle.
Spell It Out - Typography Art
After we studied a good bit about typography, we chose one entire typeface to create one cohesive art piece. Using multiple tools in Adobe Illustrator, I created Thor Odinson out of a handful of quotes in the Raighton Font Three typeface.
