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[arojas5]

This Project was really enjoyable. I consider myself a food lover, so for this project I incorporated my love for food with my mexican heritage. I collected family recipes, cooked them and photograph them. It was a lot of work but really satisfying to see the outcome at the end.

[megancolwell95]

Locating Place: Book

The locating place project was a way to explore a part of Austin and take away a part of that particular neighborhood and then creating a book to document this connection. The neighborhood that was explored was the Cesar Chavez community. After walking through the neighborhood, taking photographs, and learning more about the places that make up this vibrant area of Austin, TX. 

The two things I took away from my time spent in Cesar Chavez was the mystery and the history that many of the old building structures hold. In order to show this through book design, I decided to write my own mystery book that encompassed the true history and importance of some of the buildings in the neighborhood. I also wanted to teach the reader about the bad side of gentrification because this is actually starting to happen on the East Side of Austin where Cesar Chavez is located. 

I decided to do this through using photographs and hand-drawn illustrations that I vectorized in Illustrator and colored in Photoshop. The photographs were utilized to show actual structures in the neighborhood and the illustrations were used for the fictional characters in the story. This contrast in artwork in the book emphasized the difference between fiction and non-fiction.

I learned a lot about using a grid system and finding a balance between typography and artwork. I also realized that I really enjoy illustrating and learned the process of turning hand-drawn illustrations into vectorized pieces of art. 

[malloryashwander12-blog]

Location Book: Sixth Street

Title: Location Book: Sixth Street

Instructor: Tuan Phan

I focused my research for the location book on Sixth Street from the location of Lamar St. to Canal St. My research focused on 4 categories: architecture, color, life, and buildings. *I lost my original file and this book is a temporary recreation with my photos from research

[lpgdesportfolio-blog]

Kira, Girl Adventurer

[lpgdesportfolio-blog]

These are screen shots of my motion piece titled East side Type for the Locating Place project.  The idea is to display some unique type that is found on the East Side, connecting the pieces through motion and through the flashing of the lights.  All pieces were carefully recreated in illustrator.

[malloryashwander12-blog]

Title: Location Place: Motion

Instructor: Tuan Phan

I researched and explored Sixth Street in Austin, Tx from Lamar St. to Canal St. which included what is commonly known as West Sixth, Historical Sixth, and East Sixth. I tried to capture the culture of the different areas of Sixth Street. 

[dizzytel-blog]

Identity Project

For the identity series project, I chose the digital revolution era of graphic design. I wanted to keep my system as simple as possible so that no one would miss out on getting a particular button, so it is arranged by day of the week. Additionally, there is a members-only button. 

The choice of imagery is not random. I chose to combine now-widely recognizable 8-bit images (most from the era of the then-new GUI) with widely recognizable classical art pieces to show how art & design were changed forever. Each of the buttons plays off of the action going on in the art piece, showing the functionality of the GUI. The broken page button is members only, an computer joke implying that only those who posess a membership can see the button.

Poster Link

[hausofjaxportfolio]

Locating Place Motion (West Campus)

This video was made for a project in my Graphic Design course. It focused on locating place. The place i chose was West Campus at the University of Texas at Austin. Even though motion work is tough for me i am happy with my end result. I feel as though i depicted the things i wanted to in West Campus. The color and diversity is what i focused on. I love all the imagery that you experience the whole time.