Hardcover bound book, showing personal purchases and the consequences of being in student debt. Took about… 6 hours total?
I made this poster as a part of an assignment that was due this morning. The assignment was about scale, and I chose to illustrate the contrast between national student debt statistics, and the personal consequences of being a poor student. This is the former—the national statistics—while I presented the latter in form of a bound book containing staple “student foods” (i.e. top ramen) and their price. The big numbers on the poster in comparison to the very small sums in the book creates a nice contrast.
I didn’t spend as much time on the poster as I would have liked. My favorite part of it is the background graphic, which I rendered in Maya using various algorithms. Incidentally, this was my instructor’s least favorite element.
This is a thing that I drew over two years ago, but even looking that far back, I’m pretty satisfied with the concept and the execution.
Can you make it out? It’s amazing how far you can bend the forms of typography, and still have it be legible.
Inspired by my little brother’s adamant refusal to read.
Said logo. (see below)
My first Graphic Design 2 project: a stationary system designed for a fictional entity, which captures the arbitrary adjectives vivacious and isolated. The logo is a lightning bolt wearing headphones, which together represent both the idea of isolation and liveliness. The identity is designed around bright colors (vivacious) and crop marks (isolation).
bragging rights. ‘cos he’s mine.
I’m finally done with the semester! Pictured above is my final project in Graphic Design/Typography. It’s a recontextualisation of Hansel & Gretel, featuring photography from mainly the Dogpatch district of San Francisco. I bound the book by hand, teaching myself how to do it using Youtube videos and this tutorial. I’m really satisfied with the result, and I think my instructors felt the same way.
My poster made the front page of GOOD today! I’m still not quite sure how it happened, but I’m in shock and euphoria. Thanks!
I got a few emails questioning and arguing the info on the poster. The facts I used were primarily from the documentary Black Gold.
Top of the hill, 11/12/2010.
c’est moi poster.
My second project in Graphic Design 1 was due today, but due to unfortunate circumstances (I’m looking at you, mentally disturbed guy who decided to close off the Bay Bridge) I didn’t get to have my crit. But here’s the finished product.
This poster intends to inform people about the process of coffee production, and the benefits of fair trade. It is specifically geared towards heavy coffee consumers, and I believe that in this case education is the most effective way of promoting the fair trade product.
