Greek Week
Thank you Lauren and Shawn for being such sports! :) This was done at my Promotions job to advertise Greek Week.
Add comment April 9th, 2010
Native American Powwow
A freelancing project that I have been working on for the Intertribal Native Council.
Add comment April 4th, 2010
Haiti Relief T-shirt
This is a shirt that I designed for a fundraiser we are trying to organize for AIGA. We opened it up as a contest for design/illustration students to submit entries, with the winner having their design screen printed (by us) onto shirts that we would sell on campus, with $5 from each shirt going to help Haiti crisis victims. As of right now we are experiencing massive headaches trying to work with BSU and find our way through all of their red tape… to be honest I think it is silly that something meant to do good might not even happen because of all of their paperwork and hoops they make clubs jump through to do anything on campus… but we’ll see what happens.
Add comment February 12th, 2010
Freelancing Fears Confronted
This is a poster I created for an upcoming AIGA BSU event. We are having a local freelancer, Jodie Thiel, come speak to us about the business side of graphic design. Topics covered will include contracts, invoices, marketing, networking and proposals. I’m super excited :)
Add comment February 12th, 2010
Vagina Monologues Poster
This is a promotional poster I just finished for an event that the Women’s Center puts on every year called The Vagina Monologues. Its main message is to create awareness about violence against women. This is their 10 year anniversary, so they wanted a theme that could be carried through all of their events this year. I decided to use their logo (the parenthesis and brackets…({ }) ) with a lot of whitespace. I had to come up with this design in one day so I am pretty happy with how it came out :)
Add comment February 6th, 2010
Student Org Fair
This is a poster that I just finished for the Student Involvement and Leadership Center. They are advertising for the annual spring organization fair. I actually just sent this to print, so it isn’t even up on campus yet… but it will be soon!
Add comment January 9th, 2010
Website Sketch- CORE Engineering
This is a sketch I did for CORE Engineering’s website. It is part of the work that I have done while freelancing at Icon Design.
Add comment December 16th, 2009
Hands Across Campus
This is the front page for the last issue of the semester. It is in response to racist and homophobic flyers that were put into issues of The Arbiter by some unknown perpetrators. Between 150 and 200 students came together on campus and joined hands in a statement about acceptance and diversity on our campus. Many signed a petition in support as well, so this cover design features students’ hand prints with some of the signatures over top.
Add comment December 15th, 2009
Baphinctal
So we were all given a made-up word this time around, and mine was ‘baphinctal’. I actually thought that word sounded kind of gross so I decided to go in the complete opposite direction and do something cute and playful. Childlike, if you will. So here it is :)
Add comment December 10th, 2009
The Appleseed Cast- Peregrine
For this project we were asked to design a CD cover for a band of our choice- I chose The Appleseed Cast’s album Peregrine. They are an indie band whose sound is very ambient and broody in nature. It would be easy for their music to sound like pure chaos because they implement so many different sounds and elements, but they manage to create beautiful compositions. I wanted the image to portray all of this, which is why I chose the color palette I did, as well as why I chose to make an overall image that is composed of many smaller shapes. This project was a lot of fun to work on :)
1 comment November 30th, 2009
Interior/Exterior
This is another fine arts exhibit for the Student Union Building; this one features work by artist Ben Browne, and is called “Interior/Exterior”. Shown above is the wall vinyl, followed by an ad as it appeared in The Arbiter.
Add comment November 22nd, 2009
Rock of Ages
Project #2 from my illustration class. We were asked to design a poster for a play or musical. I chose to do mine for the Broadway musical Rock of Ages.
2 comments October 29th, 2009
My Autopsy
This is my first illustration of the semester… we had to choose an article from a magazine for our content. I chose a poem called “My Autopsy.” I’ve added it at the bottom if you are curious…
1 comment September 27th, 2009
Living Within Two Cultures
This is a project that I worked on for the Fine Arts Exhibition in the Student Union Building. I had to create a postcard, wall vinyl, newspaper ad, kiosk ad, web banner, and student update that all correlated to advertise this event. It is called “Living Within Two Cultures” and the featured artists are Jean You and Allison Corona. The exhibit runs from September 3rd – October 18th 2009.
Included above is the postcard design, followed by an image of the installed wall vinyl on one of the gallery walls.
Add comment September 15th, 2009
Idaho Pioneers Brochure
Here is my very first project working at the Student Union Building’s Promotions office. It is a brochure that was printed and dispersed for the opening of the J. R. and Esther Simplot Ballroom. The inside was pretty much off limits- they wanted to keep it the same as the former version of the brochure. I was able to redesign the cover though, so long as it kept in accordance with the design aesthetic of the interior. It’s pretty simple and straight-forward in character…
Add comment September 14th, 2009
New Look for The Arbiter!
Hey guys I know it has been a while since I posted, but this summer is crazy! As many of you know, I have five jobs that I am juggling… so it keeps me pretty busy! One thing that I have been working on this summer is the redesign of The Arbiter (Boise State’s student newspaper, for those who are not familiar). We have been working on it for a while, and our “pilot” issue hit the stands yesterday.
I am really excited about it; we decided to try something completely different and are going for more of a web 2.0 look, with more images and graphics. I was nervous about how our new look would come off the press- but decided that the summer is a good time to experiment if you are going to do it. I used a lot of gradients and color on the front page, curious about whether or not it would translate to print that well. I am pretty excited about the results… I am also pretty excited that the photography on the front page is also mine :)
So what do you think? Do you like the new look? Suggestions? Hit me up here or on Facebook!
Add comment July 30th, 2009
The Arbiter
Here are some pages that I designed over the past semester while working at The Arbiter. The first two have been submitted to CMA for best design- we’ll see if they win any awards!
1 comment June 14th, 2009
Wind and Water
This assignment revolved around designing a logo for an actual company here in Boise (chosen at random from a phone book), and then using it to create an identity in the form of a letterhead, business card, and envelope. I decided to do a feng shui company. I gave it the name Wind and Water, which is the literal translation of ’feng shui.’ I have always been interested in this, especially since I majored in interior design for a year back in the day. The deceiving thing about logos is that they look so simple; in reality they require a lot of research, thought, and time. Maybe that is why I don’t like them? ;)
1 comment June 12th, 2009
Miss Behave
Here is another project that I completed this last semester. We were asked to design a label for a wine bottle. I did a design for one of those mini wine bottles that you see on the shelves at the grocery store. I just remembered how my girlfriends and I would sneak bottles of cheap wine into our dorm rooms back in the days of Driscoll Hall… ha ha good times. I thought it would be fun to design a bottle that was marketed specifically for that audience. Perhaps it isn’t the most practical audience but that is the great thing about school projects, isn’t it? You get to do whatever you want :) Besides… so many wine bottles have such banal designs, why not mix it up a bit? ;)
1 comment June 9th, 2009
Life Drawing
Life drawing is just another way of saying these are all my drawings of nudes. They are from a while ago, but I decided it was time for them to see the light of day. And yes… these were done for a class. I am not a creeper.
Add comment May 27th, 2009
Greenhouse Magazine
Okay, so here is an assignment for my graphic design class. We were given the name ‘Greenhouse’ and told to create a cover, contents page, and two spreads. Lucky for me my photography assignment had a similar theme, and I was able to use it as the cover art.
1 comment May 27th, 2009
Design-A-Q
Hey guys! So school is finally out for the summer and I am hoping I will have more time to add entries to this blog to keep it from getting too boring :) I plan on putting up more of my graphic design projects from this semester since I haven’t done so yet, but for now here is a poster I designed last week for AIGA. We are having a Design-A-Q (instead of a BBQ… nifty I know) where we will be meeting up with our mentors from the semester to wrap things up. Should be fun!
1 comment May 19th, 2009
If Trees Could Scream
I am really excited because this final diptych was chosen to be a part of an exhibit the BSU art program is hosting in Japan! I won’t get to see it on display but it is still pretty sweet :) Gotta love looking like a tree-lady-thing! Perhaps it is a bit macabre but it’s all good…
Add comment May 12th, 2009
See, Hear, Speak, Evil
Pretty sure that at this point Kristee could launch a modeling career… I don’t know what I would have done without her help this semester :)
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Childhood Lost
My first project for the semester! I just have to applaud my sister’s willingness to help me out! It was pretty funny because we did this photo-shoot at the Old Penn, and there was a couple getting their engagement photos at the same time. Seems like a weird location to get those kinds of photos but whatever floats their boat… We just did our dark emo shots side by side and it all worked out :)
Add comment March 14th, 2009
