Flash Site

Our final assignment for my graphic interface design class was to use Flash to create a website. I decided to do mine on Coheed and Cambria.

Click HERE to check it out!

Catching Up!

I feel like I've been totally and completely buried lately (mostly because I have). One of the things I've let slid while feeling bogged down is this blog. Here are some assignments that have come and gone:

This one was our "Boo at the Zoo," assignment for Branding. We were to create marks based on a positioning statement for the boo at the zoo event.

This assignment was to create an abstract mark for a conglomerate company that funds smaller companies and is based in technology-or something like that. Obviously, I haven't looked back on this since finishing ;-)

There's a couple. I'll leave it at that for now and someday (probably at the end of the semester–which is soon approaching) soon I'll take photos of and post my printmaking assignments for the semester.

Finished Flash Project

Here is a link to my first ever attempt at working with Flash. All in all, I really like Flash and this project was great until I had a problem with my original file and had to pull an all-nighter the night before it was due in order to finish. With that being said, I feel like this "finished," clip is still pretty unfinished. But alas, it's done and been handed in.

Army of Darkness quote animation

Final Type Poster

Typo Poster

Typographic poster, that is.

Our next assignment in Interface is to design a poster using only typography from an audio clip of our choosing and later we will animate the quote using Flash. Naturally, I went with a really solidly epic quote. It hails from Army of Darkness.

Today we have digital comps due for critique. Here are a couple of my favorite. I'm really liking this assignment so far. I love my quote (obviously) and working with the type, but it has been a challenge since my quote is so long.

Hi, my name is Jeremy and...

...I have completed my HTML site for Graphic Interface I and amazingly enough have lived to tell about it. Dramatic? Maybe. But this project sucked the life right out of me. I slept less in four nights that I usually sleep in one night. I barely saw my family. I had my mind blown to bits again and again and again. And after all that, I have conquered. Is my site perfect? No. But it I am pretty freaking proud of it since it was my first ever effort at using HTML and CSS coding. Now that I am done, I know there is much I could have done differently and so many things I should have done or maybe not done at all, but nonetheless, I am proud to say I finished, *patting myself on my back* and I am proud of all those who camped out with me in the UR Lab day after day and night after night: Good Job.

I present to you: Design Thinking for Innovation – the website!

*A side note: I built the site according to Safari and Firefox browser standards. It may look funky in other browsers like Internet Explorer or on a PC computer, but hopefully not! 

Yeah, I know...

...every year students make a website for Graphic Interface I about their trip to Switzerland, but I did it anyway, so there.

Here's the home page. It (as well as the rest) is a work-in-progress.

More to come later.

Figure/Groud Mark

A recent branding assignment was to create a mark with our first and last initials based on a figure/ground relationship. I'll admit it, I struggled, but I came a long way from draft to completion.
Rough draft:

drawn and scanned

I call her Nellie.

This is from the first assignment in my Brand Identity class. We had to create a "mark of identity," from a zoo animal. Part of the assignment was to focus on using the "Pen," tool in Illustrator, creating the mark so it would be closed gestalt, as well as using as little detail as possible and still having the mark identifiable. I really liked the assignment.

Here is an early version:

Always interesting to see where the process will take you. That's what I LOVE about design!

Some Work

Luggage tags

A woodcut print for my beginning printmaking class.