Ghandi’s Views on Truth & Beauty
Truth & Beauty, 2009 Class: Advanced Typography with Diana Cadwallader Brief: Make a statement with a poster based on an inspiring speech or other written/verbal message from an international of famous person.
Chimera Photo Illustration
Our final project in Graphic Design 4 was a quick photo illustration of a mythical creature to show off all our shiny new Photoshop'n skills. I chose a Chimera, and I intentionally left the goat head off because it looked stupid. I would really like to know the story behind how the Chimera was thought up. I imagine the creator was very drunk. Chimera, 2009 Woohoo! You opened this blog entry so here's an extra fancy Chimera image for you to laugh at. I mean, it's not horrible, but it is a bit cheesy. ;)
Haiku Book
Class: Advanced Typography, Spring 2009 Instructor: Diana Cadwallader Project 3: Handmade Haiku Book with 4 haiku's. Each spread should have have a page that is type only and a page that is image and type.
Hammond Hall Painting Studio
JSU has two art buildings, Hammond Hall and Carlisle Fine Arts Facility. Hammond Hall is the older of the two buildings and the central hub of most of the art department activity. It's currently home to art history, printmaking, painting, and graphic design. I work as a lab assistant so I spend a lot of time in Hammond Hall. I enjoy walking around looking at the art students are making and at how the rooms are constantly changing to adjust for various classes or assignments. The painting room is always interesting to look at since the still lifes frequently change. I [...]
Traveling Through
A stitched panoramic shot of tornado damage near Mount Cheaha in Alabama. 2009 Class: Photo II Instructor: Doug Clark Assignment: Photomerge
In Over Our Heads
We were given several photomerge assignments. These two images feature my wonderful, but very frustrated husband. Both of these images were originally much wider but I think they work better cropped in a bit. Return to Sender, 2009 This is an image made for a class stitching assignment that involved stitching together multiple shots to create a larger panorama. This image was originally much wider showing a large expanse of the street we live on but this is the key segment I was trying to capture. The title is a slight nod to our frequent wish that we [...]
God is in the Details
Class: Advanced Typography, Spring 2009 Professor: Diana Cadwallader Tools: Adobe Illustrator Experimental Typography Project: Interpret the phrase 'god is in the details' or 'the devil is in the details' with three posters: image only, image and type, and type only.