CMYKdog

Hi, I'm Sean, a graphic design student. I post some of the work I do here.

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02 02 15 One of the professors at my university went around giving us color swatches and told us to make valentines day cards to dispay, and to "Make it Sexy." Who could be sexier than Honest Abe? I plan to make a series of Sexy Presidents as prints. I'll set up an Etsy when the project is done.

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Web II—Assignment 1

This assignment requires that I find and select 15 websites that i find an interesting element or elements in. 5 of these must be professional websites. Here are my listings:

Professional

1. http://www.sagmeisterwalsh.com/ —I am drawn to this website because it has the look and feel of a printed document emulated on screen. There’s also an interesting ticker down at the bottom left of the page with a few silly quotes that cycle. The rule at the bottom of the page is very elegant, and the way the nav bar sticks to the top of the page even when scrolling is interesting.

2. http://www.allcaps.cc/#page-0 —Joe Stewart’s website displays his portfolio and tells a story about him all in one scrolling session. No links, just words and images.

3. http://youngjerks.com/ —This website is very clean other than the bands in the background that can be a bit distracting. The typeface fits the theme well with its weight matching that of the rest of Cassaro’s website elements and other work. The website is also responsive with an expandable menu when viewed in a smaller size.

4. http://www.estudiominga.com/ —The splash screen on this site is awesome, and the website is responsive. It’s very clean and efficient. Also, the navigation in the portfolio has an interesting sorting function.

5. http://www.designwithdirection.com/ —This design studio’s website has a really cool time-lapse video that plays as the background image on the home page. Although I’m sure this increases the load time, it’s an interesting feature that draws attention to itself. Does it detract from the other content too much though?

Arbitrary

6. http://www.awwwards.com/ —The way that the nav buttons are ‘blocked’ are very intriguing and clean-looking. The entire nav layout is efficient.

7. http://www.davidoreilly.com/ —This website is very simple, but has a lot of great content. The nav is easily navigable.

8. https://www.helloalfred.com/ —Hello Alfred’s color scheme is well balanced. The navigation that hits predetermined areas on one page is interesting too.

9. http://madebyfieldwork.com/ —This website has a neat splash animation, and simple navigation. It’s also dynamic!

10. http://p--m.co/ —The physics animation on the splash screen is eye-catching. The physics react to the screen size as well. Only issue is that it crashes very easily.

11. http://www.fellswoop.com/ —A clean, dynamic website. It has some very nice icons and graphics.

12. http://www.macrabbit.com/ —This one has an interesting set of icons for its navigation. It’s also very clean, but not dynamic.

13. http://www.koko3.fi/ —The website here has an interesting, textured, material theme. The backgrounds on the front page are able to be changed as well.

14. http://www.creativespaces.net.au/ —The shapes of the divs and their textured backgrounds are interesting. I also find the top nav area to be really cool.

15. http://www.mball.cz/ —This final website has really cool graphic elements and an interactive and engaging navigation. It unfortunately is not dynamic in design.

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Web II

This is the start of the semester and Web II requires me to make a blog on WordPress. Then, we’re going to find sites that we see as inspirational and submit them to the class for evaluation.

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12.10.14 How To Make Friends With Monsters—Kinetic Typography

A kinetic typography project that teaches you how to deal with life's monsters.

The intention of this video is to take something rather dour and make it fun. A nice vintage educational film feel does just the trick.

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12.03.14

I updated a few of my previous posts with more, and better images if anyone was interested.

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12.03.14

A creature that was designed as a base for a series of monsters that would represent different typefaces.

The single print that will be made will be housed in a single black cube that was printed also on a 3D printer.

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12.01.14

The last semester of school. So far I have to finish my professional website, a kinetic typography video, the cover for my wacom tablet pen, and a presentation for little monsters that relate to fonts that will fit in a box. I really have quite a bit to finish it seems.

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11 30 14

I attended a Woodblock Type Cutting workshop last week hosted by Scott Moore. I cut a fleur type block and got officially certified as the 105th person in 100 years to have cut woodblock type by him.

His Website

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11.29.14

This is a work in progress. It will be a low-poly tablet pen holder for the Intuos Pro Tablet Pen.

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11.29.14 Final render of the Cerberus toy and some in-between stages. Half in solid, half in wire frame to show some of the internal anatomy of the pivot points.

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This Design for Good Campaign was done for class and aimed at promoting net neutrality.

The formats shown are: 3 Magazine Advertisements A Mid-Sized Poster USB Bank Card Website Landing Page Highway Billboard

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3D Poster for Typography 3 based on an architect's work. This was a student project. The event is a fabrication in order to call a cause for the design. French architect Jean Nouvel, (Born August 12 th, 1945 – Present) is well known for his work all over the world. Some of his notable pieces include: Peirao XXI in Vigo, The Fondation Cartier, 100 Eleventh Avenue in Manhattan and The Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum.

Nouvel’s work is based around the principals of geometry and locale.  Drawing from traditional ideas, Nouvel expands upon their inspiration and attempts to produce a contemporary adaptation that uses modern techniques to create a structure with geometric harmony and local flavor.

He sees and  geometry in nature and utilizes it to its fullest.  Many of his works feature natural elements such as light, water, rock formations, and foliage on, in, and around the final structure, whatever is most appropriate for the location. 

Light is one of his most focused on aspects in his designs. Nouvel sees light as one of the most important parts of a room and uses techniques to create structures that disperse light and shadow in interesting ways.

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I started my 3D project over again. I didn't like the direction it was going. This is a much better head anyway.

What happened was that I had learned so much so quickly that all of the parts started looking VERY different from each other, and each becoming more and more obsolete. The earlier pieces were extremely inefficient. This way now, I will have a better, streamlined model.

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This is a big accomplishment for me. I am making a toy for my 3D modeling class, and I was having a VERy hard time with this head trying to get it right. Finally, I sat down for an hour or so looking for tutorials and I found a wonderful tutorial that reminded me just to keep it simple and refine it later — and to use a modifier to smooth it out. It's not perfect, but I'm a lot happier with this outcome than my first iteration of that abomination I tried to keep shaping into a head. Tutorial I referenced: Link

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09.22.14

I finally figured out what I want to do next for my 3D class. We are to make toys, so I'm going to make a 3D printed dog monster with moving parts that will print in one go! For Web 1, we are redesigning websites for companies as an exercise. I picked a really bad-looking website that looks like it's from the dawn of web 1.0. This will be fun.

Type 3, I think I finally figured out a design for a 3D folded poster we are making. I'll post up whatever I can of things when they're sketched (maybe) and if not when they are sketched, when they are finished most likely.

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09.15.14 My Typography 3 first project. We did a typeface pairing exercise where we took quotes from famous designers and made them into a design.

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09.15.14 Our first project for 3D Modeling was to make a simple object. Since I already have 'some' knowledge of how Blender works, I decided to make a soda can that was hollow and open. We 3D printed our results at a 2-inch scale. The tabs were a little thin at this scale so they didn't completely print very well. It was a first good go though!