Graphic Design by Jarrid

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

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. I chose the band Slaughter Beach Dog and drew a detailed digital illustration of the band members in a style that fit their music's mood and image. Although this show isn’t actually coming to Higher Ground, I really wish it was and I included their other tour dates to demonstrate the design!

Build An Identity- Branding Designs

For this project we were assigned different businesses to rebrand and I got Deep Cutz, a record shop that wanted a new edgy look to compete with new online music sales. These are the logos I put together to help their rebranding, most of which are original digital sketches I made by hand.

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!

Kerrang! 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 Kerrang magazine with dark moody metal album art concept from a photo I shot and masked in Photoshop!

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. I made this design based on Jimmy Hendrix, creating his iconic profile with words from his songs.

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/

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 a digital illustration of a paint can showing the spectrum with texture and motion!

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.

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.

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 words by Henry David Thoreau.

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 made my portrait of Salamander Man playing the recorder with his nostril... the original photo is on the left and my sticker graphic on the right...

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