Found Type

*This typeface was created using miniature rawhide bones. Each Letter consists of one or two bones, depending on their size and/or complexity. By letting the bones sit in water for 10-15 minutes, they became soft and easily reconstructible. I was then able to shape and transform the bones into this letterset: BANK

Activity Booklet

Here I had to design a children's activity booklet for Fair Trade Coffee. We were limited to 2 spot colors and were given full text and imagery to incorporate throughout the booklet, as well as having to supply our own designs and images.

Critical Mass

The objective of this project was to visually tell a story of my choice. At the time of this project, the whole "Iraqi Reporter Throws A Shoe At Bush" story had just come out, so I figured what better story than this? Who throws a shoe?

Document

For this project I had to pick an object and document its connotative and denotative qualities through a saddle-stitched booklet. I decided to showcase silkscreen/screen printing equipment and supplies. We were to use no type, only imagery of said object.

Transformations

An old-school iPod, a Zippo, and a 1/4" guitar splitter-cable.

Scavenger Hunt

This was my first project for Image Methodology. A compositional test, I had to take six pictures of objects that were related to one another whether by color, design, layout, etc...

Identity Series

For this project I designed a hypothetical set of art museum passes in the form of buttons. We had to choose a certain movement/style from graphic design's history, and base our button and poster design around the period. I decided to focus on the International Design/Swiss Movement.

Instructional Design

For this project, I chose to create an instructional set of graphics for making scrambled eggs. This decal fits flush to the inside of the lid for a carton of a dozen eggs. When you open the egg carton, the decal is right-side up and easily legible, allowing the "egg-maker" to then accurately create scrambled eggs.

Kitchen of Meaning

The Kitchen of Meaning poster was one of the more intensive design projects for my Graphic Design 2 class. I had to convey through the poster the general idea or meaning of my given word: Zeitgeist. Literally meaning "spirit of the time," zeitgeist was a tough word for me to express since there were so many periods of time for me to base my poster. I ended up going with the late 1960-70's for my given time period, and tried to express that by stylizing the poster like one you would have seen for a concert back in the day.

Type Specimen Book

I chose the type family of Antique Olive Standard for my Type Specimen Book. The assignment was to showcase your chosen typeset in booklet form while focusing on utilizing grid systems and typographic hierarchy. These are three of my favorite spreads from the booklet that i found best represented and showcased my typeface.

Design Culture Now

This assignment required me to create a 'contemporary' poster exhibiting four graphic designers for a hypothetical Design Culture Now show. The poster had to graphically showcase the featured designers while still incorporating a typographic hierarchy. I chose to design the poster around the main headline, Design Culture Now, after I had discovered its heavy-metalish, Destructo-looking font. I was in a metal phase music-wise at the time, so there was a definite influence on this poster's final draft.

Prototype

This letterset was one of the first assignments for Typography 1, where all we had was a 9x9 grid for each individual letter. Using nothing but full squares (bitmap style), we were to design an A, B, C, P, Q, and R in whatever fashion we pleased. Mine unintentionally ended up looking similar to the Jeopardy font, so I figured it was only appropriate to name it "Trebec."

Cognitive Map

For my cognitive map, I was able to get a little more abstract with my elements. This map represents expressions felt, as well as things seen on my trips between Austin and Houston. I wanted to focus specifically on how 'urban' both cities had become, along with match each city with what I felt it's corresponding color scheme. My reason for emphasizing each city in a graffiti-like style was due to my interest, at the time, in each city's distinct 'graffic' style.

Perceptual Map

For the Perceptual Map, I wanted to portray auditory and visual signals experienced throughout the drive. At the time of this piece, I was in a Reggae phase music-wise so I filled half the background sound waves with the traditional red, yellow, and green of the culture.

Artifact Map

The Artifact Map of our Personal Geography Project was the most literal of the three. The route I chose goes between my home in Houston and my apartment back in Austin. I opted to show only major highways in and around the path I take from Austin to Houston.

Symbol Methodology

For the Symbol Methodology project, we started by choosing a certain industry (such as Hydroelectricity or Agriculture) and creating 36 drawn sketches that best represent it. My chosen industry was Optics, so after deriving 33 vectors from my prior sketches, I mixed and matched them to create 12 relevant icons. From those 12, I then narrowed the list down to a good 9, and eventually a final 3. The symbols were supposed to effectively portray our given industry while still maintaining clarity in a 1x1 inch format.

Eagle

Supposedly our second project for Graphic Design 1 was to trace an image of an eagle, similar to the duck exercise. But I'm pretty sure my class didn't do this particular study, so in the meantime, here's Andrew Jackson's eagle. Smooth.

Duck

My first assignment for Graphic Design 1 was to vectorize an image of a rubber ducky using primarily the pen tool and bezier handles.