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.