Brave new Swirl Design

 

These examples are taken from my work while attending The Art Institutes International, Minnesota. Some images used may be the legal property of others. These images were only used for educational purposes.

 

Farenheit 451 cover re-design


Assignment: Take a classic book and redesign the cover with an updated look to appeal to modern readers.
Application: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Class: Typography I



Baskerville Poster

 

Assignment: design a poster about an assigned historical typeface. Having received Baskerville, I researched books and layouts used at the time when the Baskerville typeface was first introduced.
Applications:Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3
Class: Typography I

 

 

A Kitchen for the New Millenium
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detail 2
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Assignment: Use illustrator's gradient tool to create an interior space.
Application: Adobe Illustrator CS3
Class: Digital Illustration

 

Newport Rock Festival


Assignment: Create a poster for a band or a concert. Everyone else was making grungy hard rock posters. I'm not a big fan of hard rock most of the time. I'm more of a folk music kind of guy.

Applications: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3.
Class: Digital Illustration

 

 

"Cheese Please" brand identity study

Brand identity for a fictional deli. Superimposed logos and graphics over pictures of an existing deli. Target audience would be a younger "sub lovers" market. Hip, fresh and clean are the keywords here.

Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS2 and CS3.
Class: Design Elements II

Windsource Ad project
pinwheel ad
dandelion ad


Assignment: Create an ad campaign for a Fortune 500 company based in Minnesota. This was a group project.
Software: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3, Microsoft Word
Class: Marketing Design


Fruit of the Loom Project


Assignment: Create a new logo for a familiar brand, present in an finished ad.
Applications: Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator CS3
Class: Image Manipulation





The Good


The Bad


The Ugly


Assignment: Using any medium, present a household object in three variations: The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I presented these large prints to the class along with an wave file featuring music and a narrator to give the feeling of a 1950's educational film about electrical safety. Playing a nerdy teenager, I would ask questions and respond at appropriate times in order to "converse" with the recorded narrator voice.
Medium: Photography. Print size 11x17in.
Application: Adobe Photoshop CS3
Class: Design Layout