Doodles: Concept Drafting

I recently teamed up with some of my good Resident Adviser friends to develop an anti-vandalism campaign for our Residence Life office. We discussed and drafted several possible mascots, collectively named Bob the Bandaid. Here's a small preview of some Bobs below.

We are designing Bob to be the main hero of our awareness posters and will continue to flesh out the branding process of Project Bob with the rest of Res Life staff.

Doodles: Digital Mindmap

As a simple exercise in Photoshop layering and masks, my Design Principles class asked us to create a mindmap of ourselves- essentially a self portrait of our perspectives as opposed to our appearances.

The central theme of my mind map is the "lovely melancholy" of wandering. The piece's base layer is an altered image of the Carina Nebula, which is then covered in text from The Little Prince, and my own photographs I have taken of Providence. Outer space, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's novel, and my recent urban travels all tie into my fascination with exploration. I chose to obscure these images within to encourage a visual exploration of the piece as well. I incorporated my fondness of birds (as a grounding focal point) and hexagonal shapes (as a textural quality) as more direct images. As I continued working, my piece morphed into something more mysterious, which I played with to get this end result.

Resident Hallway Signs

 As a Resident Adviser, one of my duties is to keep my dorm floor a quiet and productive environment for everyone. I created some informational signs for my hallway as an easy guide to the school's resources. To fit my floor's spaceship theme, I used a futuristic computer interface aesthetic as implied hallway display screens.

Above is the poster I created as a 36"x 44" bulletin board. Below includes four smaller posters that list additional information.

Theater: Graphics

I volunteered to create some graphic designs for the main character's business cards as well as the menu for the fancy dinner scene in Hello, Dolly! The graphics needed to be seen from the audience, so I focused mainly on bolded text. I researched products at the turn of the 19th century online and through books in order fits the play's period.

The menus were placed on black masonite as the waiters handled them while dancing.

My instructors decided to use both designs for the business cards and printed them on aged-color cardstock.

Doodles: Happy Birthday

Here is a small graphic I made for a dear friend of mine in Photoshop. The gradient and vector based pattern are inspired by the app game, Monument Valley.

Doodles: Snow Cardinals

Simple stylized birds this time to fit today's strange sleet weather.

Doodles: Crow Brush Experiment

Decided to try combining some of the stencil ideas from drawing class with the multitude of photoshop brushes. I'm not completely satisfied with the value placements, but my goal was to explore the washed out ink marks.

Doodles: Prep

I'm trying to gain more consistency in style, so here's a quick sketch that I will expand more on later for a cleaner, cartoon type look.

Doodles: Blue Jay

Can't be damp bird in this rainy weather! (Adobe Photoshop with several photo references)