Graphic Design by Hannah
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Scroll down below to see some selections of my work from this unit.
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
Learn more about The Vermont Network and Mosaic by clicking on the links!
Personal Media Artwork Branding Logo
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. This is my final chosen logo design... look out for this logo more soon!
Smithsonian 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 the Smithsonian magazine with a fake cover story about an ancient tooth discovery based on a cool digital illustration I made.
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
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.
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.
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. You can also see my notes about the meaning and symbolism in my graphic.
Learn more about Paula Higa Dance at https://www.paulahiga.com/
Line It Up - Typography Alignment Design
Our first project in the graphic design unit. The project was to take a piece of text of our choice and use different Typography, alignments, and font variations to put across meaning and a message with the text. I chose Lyrics from my favorite song "Can You Feel The Sun" By MISSO.
Cartoon Portrait
This was our first real design project to make vector art. We used the Pen Tool to learn about creating vector graphics with closed shapes and layers to create cartoon versions of characters. I decided to use a photo I took of myself on Halloween
Spell It Out- Typography Art Piece
For this project, we used typography as building blocks for our own original art pieces. We used functions like type on a path and vector text editing to stretch, bend, and arrange type as a graphic object. My design is of my Grandfather, who passes away in 2016. Using a photo reference of him I made outlines and details featuring text from his favorite song "Three Little Birds" by Bob Marly, Text from his obituary, and names of his family members.
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 Page Turners, a comic book and video store that was remodeling. They wanted a logo to bring in more adult customers then just "geeky teens.".
Spectrums of Light- Color Wheel Design
After learning about color theory, this project offered us an open-ended chance to create a design to showcase our own color wheel. These color wheel designs had to showcase the primary and secondary colors in a way that was functional rather than just a decoration. For my color wheel, I made an animation to show the primary colors with dynamic movement.