Zine of Products

This is a zine full of ten different products. The objective of this assignment was to do design research and work on page layouts. The project was fun to create. I tried to keep a constant theme or look throughout the entire zine.

Ad Design and Layout

For this assignment we had to find a ad layout in a magazine that we liked and try to recreate it in a new ad trying to sell our studio class. The bottom ad I liked because the picture is cut out in the shape of a letter, the first letter of the company. The ad above it I liked because your eye tends to follow the plates of cat food down to the writing, which then leads your eye to the name of the company. I chose to use these ideas in my ad. Although the ad looks simple I think
it is successful. I found these ad layouts in a magazine titled Blueprint. The ad were on pages nine and twenty-nine.

Memory Container

This was actually my second iteration and once again I failed because the figure did not have the ability to stand for a long period of time. I change that I made from the first to the second iteration was the spiral in the center.

This was my first iteration and as you can tell it did not last very long. The four angled pieces were the four legs that were evenly spaced around the spiral circle.

This was the third iteration. This was I was still in the process of figuring how to attach the legs. This iteration is missing a leg, opposite the medium height leg.

This was my final result and I am very pleased with it. I was given suggestions to make the legs more three dimensional and maybe let the spiral dangle. The only reason there are three legs instead of four is because I came to the conclusion that making the legs 3-D would make it difficult to see the pink cone and spiral it there were four. Someone also made the comment the the three legs mimic the three sides of the triangle legs. This makes it more pleasing to the eye.

Black and White Pencil Drawing

This is a second drawing that I did because I felt that my first was not as good. I definitely like this one better. I enjoyed this drawing.

Black and White Self Portrait

I enjoyed this assignment because it created something different. It was a little easier drawing myself than someone else. The white areas that are shaded are the areas where
the light was hitting my face.

Profile Drawings

These drawings are contour profile drawings, using proportions of the human skull.
These drawings happen to be of two of my friends.

The Pencil Box

This was my first try and quite a failure. This was when I was experimenting with the
sizes of the mat board.

This was my first iteration for this project.
I feel that I improved the final product a great deal.

This was the second iteration. I tried giving the appearance a smoother look.
Tommy pointed out that the smooth look of the vertical section was not harmonious with the other sharp edges.

The assignment was to design a container or box for pencils. One aspect of the project was not only to create a box for the pencils but to construct it as neatly as possible. I chose to design for what we know to be the primary and secondary colors out of a set of colored pencils. I really enjoyed this project.

The drawing on the top is of my sister and the bottom one is of my mother. I really enjoy doing this type of drawing because all the proportions turn out right.

People Drawings

These were people sitting at the soccer game Wednesday night.

These people were also sitting and enjoying the game.

For this drawing I was sitting outside of the coffee shop in the EUC and these
two girls were sitting across the hallway.

This drawing was done in the Department of Interior Architecture of one of the
professors and a few students.

The assignment was to complete four drawings of people in different surroundings.

A place for an Egg

This was my very first iteration for the egg project. The egg was meant to sit on the top
in the smaller pyramid.

This was one of the later iterations where I was trying a new idea and material.

This was one of the last few iterations that I had. The egg was meant to have the stick straight through the egg and sitting right in the middle of the circle.

Once agian this was one of the last few iterations where the egg is supposed to sit in the middle of the circle with the stick piercing the egg. The stick is there to help show the symmetry of the egg in one direction and not in the other.

The description for this specific assignment was to design a place for an egg, that celebrates a quality of the egg, using only paper. The paper aspect created quite a challenge. We were not allowed to use any adhesives. The quality that I chose to celebrate was that geometry of the egg, showing off the symmetry.