Graphic Design by Rowan

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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, this original design in two color variations is based on the Grateful Dead and is offered as a pitch to Burton for a new board design!

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

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. These are my three finalist ideas for logos to represent my own work!

Rolling Stone 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 Rolling Stone magazine with a photo of some friends making a deal...

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/

Build An Identity- Branding Designs for Slice Artisan Pizza

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 Slice, an artisan pizza shop, and they wanted a clean and classy style to their look.

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!

Holiday Postcard Design for Montpelier Alive

For this project, we worked with an organization called Montpelier Alive to create original graphics for postcards and animations to decorate downtown Montpelier. This was my postcard design and the animated version of it!

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 mine as a devilish self portrait remix.

Spectrums of Light- Color Wheel Exploration

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 called "Painbow" to show the primary colors with dynamic movement.

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 mine based on the rapper NAV.

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.

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 lyrics from Neutral Milk Hotel.

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