campus cookies 2010

Winter 2010 - The logo and package designs shown here were a part of my final senior project in my Advanced Graphic Design class. First, I created a fictional company - a late-night cookie delivery company geared toward college campuses, which I named Campus Cookies. I designed a color and black-and-white logo for the company. Then, I created a styles manual describing how the logo could be used and recreated (not pictured). Finally, I designed and assembled 3 package designs for the company - a milk carton, an individual cookie sleeve, and a "party pack" (which holds 30 cookies). I used watercolor paint to create the background image. (I also baked the cookies shown in the packages from scratch.)

open book exhibition 2010

Winter 2010 - Open Book: An International Survey of Experimental Books

This postcard, poster, and exhibition catalogue were created for Eastern Michigan University's Open Book exhibition in 2010. My concept was to look at the history and importance of books throughout time, referencing where books have come from (naturally, with the plant, and historically, with the printing press and decorations akin to illuminated manuscripts) and where books are going (with pixelated/digitized type, e-readers, and electric plugs). For the actual catalogue, I wanted to break away from the concept of a bound book, and made a package of many parts which can be looked at separately and are held together with a pixelated paper band. My concept worked well with the types of experimental books that were featured in the show.

flash assignment 2010

Winter 2010 - Flash assignment. Here are some screen shots from an interactive Flash assignment I created for my Image Making II class. All images were created in Illustrator and imported into Flash, where I used Motion Tweens and Action Script 3.0 to allow for interaction with the light, clocks, shower door, and cleaning bottles. The concept of the piece was I dream I had in the summer of 2008 - I slept in until 6 pm, clocks taunted me, and when I went to go take a shower there were giant cleaning bottles that jumped out at me, dancing and chasing me down the hall.

3D font 2010

Winter 2010 semester - I created a 3D font out of tetrahedron-shaped candles. The letters spell out "Reality." Later, I burned the font and photographed and videotaped the burning process, giving the font a fourth dimension - time.

graphic design 2009 - "the missing ladle"

Japanese-stab bound book with sewn slip covers and pillows. Inside pages digitally printed with scanned-fabric backgrounds. Title ("The Missing Ladle") hand-embroidered on slip cover. Inside describes an urban legend of a mother hiding a gravy ladle in her son's girlfriend's bed to prove that her son and his girlfriend are sleeping together. Miniature gravy ladle bookmark.

This piece was shown in the 2010 EMU AIGA Student Show and in the 2010 EMU Annual (juried) Student Art Exhibition.

graphic design 2009 - train brochure

Photograph of inside of five-fold double-sided train schedule brochure created for Intermediate Graphic Design (Fall 2009) class. Schedules show Eastbound Weekday and Weekend trains, Westbound Weekday and Weekend trains, and all connecting buses. One-color brochure.

graphic design 2009 - time/memory/home

Photographs of my "Time/Memory/Home" book created for my Intermediate Graphic Design class (Fall 2009 semester). The cover and band was painted with watercolor. The inside pages were digitally printed, though the backgrounds consist of watercolor paintings that were digitally scanned and incorporated. The images were drawn with the pen tool in Illustrator, and all the type was written by hand and scanned into the computer. Inside, two books - one representing my past, the other my future - could each be read independently of or simultaneously with the other book.

graphic design 2009 - daily icon map

Daily icon map created for Image Making I class (Fall 2009 semester). 20 one-color icons representing activities I do every day were created in Illustrator. All icons are shown large (2nd image) in the order of time spent per week on each activity. The first image shows the frequency and order of performing the activity during the first week of the Fall 2009 semester. Each icon represents 10 minutes (or any fraction therein). This long icon map was 3' long when digitally printed out. The final image is a photograph of part of the printed icon map. This piece was also featured in the EMU AIGA Student Show in 2010.

graphic design 2009 - image making zine

Spreads from my Image Making I (Fall 2009 semester) "Zine." Imagery created from collages (see previous posts). Inside the shapes is tiny stream-of-consciousness style type describing the ideas said in larger type. Final image is a photograph of the actual assembled book.

graphic design 2009 - photoshop collages

Photoshop collages created in Image Making I (Fall 2009 semester) to represent the words "sexuality," "education," and "blue."

graphic design 2009 - photoshop collages

Photoshop collages created in Image Making I (Fall 2009 semester) to represent the words "sexuality," "education," and "blue."

graphic design 2009-2010 - fusion logo and brochure

In early 2010, EMU decided to merge the previously separate "Fast Track" and "Fusion Orientation" incoming Freshmen experiences into one program of two parts. Using the already existing Fusion logo as inspiration, I created two new logos for what are now the two parts of Fusion - Fusion Fast Track, and Fusion First Four. I also created a new Fusion orientation brochure, distributed to all incoming Freshmen for the 2010-2011 school year (not pictured). Also pictured is the Fusion Transfer Student Orientation tri-fold brochure, which I created for the 2009 orientation season.

graphic design 2009 - homecoming brochure

I created the brochure and poster for EMU's 2009 Homecoming. They were outsourced and printed back-to-back and folded into quarters. These brochures were distributed campus-wide to promote Homecoming week events.