Euphoria 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 Euphoria magazine with a studio photo shoot making use of color gels and dramatic lighting.

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 sexual violence, bullying, and the psychological effect for males because that is an approach that not many people think about.

Learn more about The Vermont Network and Mosaic by clicking on the links!

Design Brief- Montpelier Alive Holiday Graphics and Animation

For this project we paired with Montpelier Alive in designing holiday cards and animations for our capitol Montpelier. Together as a class I believe we all did an amazing job! We tried to make ours as different as we could, please feel free to check out everyone else's work on this project. Personally i wanted to integrate the pandemic in a way that wasn't directly referencing COVID but still put the importance of a continued sense of community throughout the pandemic.

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 Serenity Spa and they wanted clean, elegant, vibrant, relaxing graphics for their brand.

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 Lil Peep.

The Sky Might Fall- 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.