Graphic Design by Galen

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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! The digital illustration on my board is an original based on an older photo of Jake in action!

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 consent and ways of communicating consent properly.

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!

Wired Magazine Cover Design

For this project, we designed our own magazine covers with original photography and graphics that were exact replications of the original magazine layout and styles. Using a copy of the magazine as our guide, we measured the layout specifications and created our own design with InDesign using photo edits from Photoshop and vector elements from Illustrator. I made my cover for Wired magazine with a joke cover story and photo manipulated cover shot about AmongUs characters in real life.

Nordheiim Musician Logo Designs

For this project we worked with a Burlington, Vermont-based musician who goes by the name of Nordheiim. Nordheiim produces techno and house music, so our logos worked to represent the vibe of electronic music and also incorporate Nordheiim's love for biking and the outdoors. Check out his music at https://soundcloud.com/nordheiim

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/

Fiddlers Green Construction Company Branding Designs

For this project we worked with a construction/design company in Stowe called Fiddlers Green who focused on building homes and managing properties in some of Vermont's most beautiful areas. We submitted logo ideas for consideration to represent their Vermont-based construction work and to visualize the mythical Fiddlers Green from folklore of an afterlife where fiddlers played without ever tiring, like the company's work ethic and values! In addition to making logos, we also designed color schemes and mockups of t-shirts for employees featuring logo ideas.

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 "The Alley Cat" and they wanted a logo that fit their rebranding from an arcade/bowling alley into an arcade/bar that appealed to adults.

Three Sides Is All You Need- Triangle Design Challenge

This was our first graphic design challenge where we all had the chance to create a design based on an open-ended prompt, with prizes for the most creative and most technically complex designs. This design challenge prompt was to create an interesting abstract or concrete graphic using triangles as building blocks for our visual form.

Cartooning Portrait

For our first Graphic Design project, we were tasked to use a picture of ourselves and then use Adobe Illustrator to trace and recolor it into a cartoon-like portrait of ourselves.

Spell It Out - Typography Art Piece

For this project, we could take a photo of whomever we wanted and make typography art based off of them and their works. I chose the singer Nate Ruess and I based his typography off of his album Some Nights, which is one of my favorite and most nostalgic albums.

Line It Up - Typography Alignment Design

This was our first project using InDesign to organize typography. We chose interesting pieces of text and used typography design principles like alignment, justification, and font variations to communicate visually so the type could speak beyond the words. I made my design based on a speech from the popular comedy show The Good Place.

Spectrums of Light - Color Wheel Design

In this project, we had to create our own version of the color wheel in any original way we wanted. I worked with Matthew Binginot to create a color wheel based off of the aperture of a camera's lens.

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. We were allowed to use any music artist we wanted, so I chose the YouTube comedy music project Epic Rap Battles of History. Although we were allowed to use a logo and a photo of the performers, this design is fully original! Although this show isn’t actually happening, I really wish it was!

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 Vermont Sunrise. These were some of my design concepts, and I used my favorite design to showcase the product on the mockup of the can!

Spoof Movie Poster Design

When I had some extra time in class, I made this design mashing up the original Titanic movie poster with the design from Dumb and Dumber... so, Harry and Lloyd are going down with the ship!

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