Squeeze!

Divine Dining Magazine Ad
Adobe Photoshop

I have no idea where this thought came from but it makes me giggle. I'm in the process of designing an 8 page (possibly more) food magazine called Divine Dining. I'm probably having way too much fun with it. We have to include a food advertisement as one page in our magazine. I decided to use the wine Darisciah that I had made up for another class. I started with a photo of the grapes that were originally on a vine. I also had a photo of a wine glass. I cut both out and pasted them together in one file. I had to use another copy of the wine glass over the grapes so they appeared to be in the glass. The saying on the right is just a random thought in my head. It seemed to go well with the wine. Now you can't tell me you would never see an Ad like this is a food magazine. I'm quite excited about this. I would love to hear everyones thoughts on this!

(sorry if its difficult to read, it didn't download very well to the internet.)

Whitewater Rafting anyone?

Whitewater Rafting Brochure
Typography
Adobe InDesign

The top picture is a the cover and backside of a three-fold brochure. The bottom picture is the inside spread of the same brochure I recreated for typography. I was given an old brochure that was poorly designed and had to include the same type on my new brochure. (And let me tell you it was not fun typing all of that in there.) Hopefully you can notice where the folds would be, otherwise its quite difficult to imagine the 3-fold. Since there was a lot of copy text in this brochure I wanted to make the pictures much more interesting, hence the big wave. I was pretty happy with the layout and my teacher seemed agree. Obviously it'd be much easier to see in person all folded up, but this works for now. Would you pick up a brochure if it looked like this?
I also have a graphic tech magazine coming up in the next few weeks that I'm very excited about, so keep you eyes pealed!

Ten

Pearl Jam Album Cover
Mixed Media

This is the second piece of my Design Studio series, the album cover. If anyone knows Pearl Jam, they've become quite political. This cover is a silhouetted outline of the band members with the block over the eyes. The outline is intended to be slightly off and appear as if it is one continuous line uniting the figures. The background is watercolor to look like parchment paper. The white outline was then painted on in acyril and the colored blocks were pasted on top. Considering the fact that markers bleed on watercolor paper, I had to place a piece of acetate over the entire cover to include the Pearl Jam logo. It all took a good amount of time and lots of stress, and in the end I'm still not completely happy with it. Attempting to get the acetate to stick to the watercolor paper, and the watercolor paper to stick to the mat board, was quite a hassel. I still think it would all look better if I could have done it on the computer :)

Wine

Darisciah Wine Label
Adobe Illustrator

For my history of graphic design class we had to create a wine label that represents a style that we have learned. This is a wine that I made up with a label representing the Vienna Secession. Vienna Secession reflects Gustav Klimt's spirals and sense of symmetry. The font and colors also evoke Vienna Secession, although I modernized certain aspects such as the overall shape of the label. My professor announced during critique that it was one of his favorites, thanks to a senior designer who was quite helpful with the final piece.
Darisciah= DAnielle tRISCIa sarAH
(the fabulous roommate threesome)

Mumbo Jumbo

Mumbo Jumbo
Adobe Illustrator

Mumbo Jumbo: (noun) Unintelligible or incomprehensible language; gibberish. Language or ritualistic activity intended to confuse. A complicated or obscure ritual. An object believed to have supernatural powers; a fetish.

The latest typography project. We were instructed to come up with a design that used only typography of a word and its definition to create something that evokes the feeling of that word. After struggling to find a word, i came up with this crazy way to make the word one continuous line. Since we can't use lines or any illustration other than text, I replaced the line with the definition of the word. So each outline is actually another string of text defining Mumbo Jumbo. And let me tell you, my eyes are mumbo jumbo after finishing this. This was a really fun project and it turned out much better than my intial thoughts of this project.

Pearl Jammin'

Pearl Jam Logo
Hand rendered
Ink on vellum

My design studio professor is very involved with the music industry. He just moved to Lancaster from LA, where he designed many different band albums, logos, posters, and t-shirts. He based our syllabus and projects off of one band, randomly chosen out of a hat. My lucky pick for the rest of the semester is Pearl Jam. This being the first project in the series, their logo.
At first I struggled to include the hard edge of Pearl Jam, while still staying within my style. My professor was glad to see my sketches of this logo. I really think I kept it classy with that rock edge that Pearl Jam portrays. And yes, it is all done by hand, I'm a perfectionist when it comes to these projects. There will more Pearl Jam merchandise throughout this semester.
Please comment. Constructive criticism is always appreciated!

Double Time

Double Time Font
Adobe Illustrator
By yours truly :)

This is my latest font design for my typography class. I thought this up last semester and hand rendered a few letters. This semester I have to design the complete alphabet on the computer. It gets kind of tricky making all the curves nice and smooth, and i'm still working out the kinks, but I really excited about it. My professor is excited as well. This is obviously only a few letters because I haven't finished yet, but let me know what you all think.