Animated K

Heraldry

Here's my heraldry project, I used my initials and I enjoy birds so I included one. I wanted to have the knight's helmet because it seemed really classic...

Carlyle/PAM Benefit

I've been working on a student project for my typography class featuring Carlyle restaurant and a donor benefit for Portland Art Museum. Here's what I came up with.

My Hockney

I chose to attempt a David Hockney-like portrait of myself through my workspace at home. It was really more difficult than I thought it would be. The transitions between objects on the wall, understanding and warping the space... tricky. I'm not sure I'm really happy with what I've come up with, but it got me thinking more spatially which is good. Feel free to click on the photo for a closer look.

David Hockney Project

For the next project, I am working on a self-portrait in the style of David Hockney. I've decided that instead of a landscape or a direct portrait of myself, I will do a portrait of my workspace, and then place a real photo put together in my empty frame on the wall. If that makes sense.

Chupa Chups!

So for the logo re-creation project I chose to do Chupa Chups, a candy company that was the first to have keep children in mind in the creation of their candy. In 1956 inventors at Chupa Chups had the idea of making a candy that could be held on a stick. The inspiration came from two facts: the largest consumer of candy is the child audience, and the fact that kids tend to remove the candy from their mouths with their very own hands!

The logo needed to appeal to kids as well, and surprisingly, the famous surrealist Salvador Dali was commissioned to create this logo. It was made in 1969. Dali drafted the basic idea of it on a newspaper in about an hour. Later in life, Dali used himself as a brand, even having a his own logo.

For my process, I made a crude slideshow telling the steps I took in re-creating the Chupa Chups logo. See me for further notes. I thought they were boring…

Ellen Lupton Final

I was challenged with this project, in that choosing Ellen Lupton I had to actually have a good concept. I really wanted to reflect her approach to the D.I.Y. movement and put a bit of myself into it. I designed with materials I had in my house. I tend to bake a lot and happened to have everything I needed to make cupcakes. I whipped up a batch of cupcakes and some frosting and decorated them with Ellen's name, letter by letter. Not so easy. Then I took a bunch of pictures with them. I placed them on a an on my open sketchbook with the thought that she does a lot of work with books and publishing. Sort of symbolic.

I had the though after I did all of this that maybe I was supposed to use Illustrator for this project. I'm slightly worried, but I put a lot of myself into this project and I used what I had, so here it is. It was a lot of fun!