Project 4 - Profound Story Book Form

This story, called Love & Learning is about learning the importance of being true to yourself and the way you feel. It is a tough lesson, full of strong emotions, represented by the extreme color scheme of pink and black. The figures and story are simplified to help emphasize the enormity of the emotions involved. The assignment was to take a profound story from your life and express it as a story using a book as a base. The cover and a few example pages are below.

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Project 3 - Recycled Jewelry

 Next, we had a Recycled Jewelry Project. NO new materials allowed!

Materials: Hemp cord, paperclips, magazine clippings

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Project 2 - Princess and The Pea

   For this project we needed to take a cube/box form and use it to create a construction representing a fairy tale. I chose the Princess and the Pea. The "mattresses" are card stock rectangles, the pillows were sown around cotton balls, the blanket was a piece of velvet and the little feet on the bottom are made of brass.

 

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Project 1 - Typographic Self-Portrait

         For our first project in our Design II class, we needed to design a "Typographic Portrait". We were given the "spoked book" form. I used bold but basic colors and shapes to help emphasize the typography. Each page represents two sides to a facet of my life.
        The left side of the red page (shown below) lists the things that I love in my life, while the right side of that page is an inverse design listing the people that I love in my life.
        The orange page represents my education. The left side (shown) being my graphic design education at OCCC and the right side my AAS in CIS from DeVry.
        The green page is my creativity, the left side having a flower design (showing nature as an inspiration) and the right side, (shown) a Rothko-like design listing my favorite artists.
        The yellow represents my "geeky" side, one side being a list of my favorite video games and the other side having small pages of code pasted on it.
        Finally, the purple page represents my spirituality. The left side features a moon scene with faint words in the sky relation to my spirituality and the right side features a sunrise scene (shown).

 purple and red page examples, plus name scholarly bookmark

green and orange page examples

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Dunkin' Donuts Contest

This is my entry for the Dunkin' Donuts 2010 contest. This was to appear on the six donut box for six weeks, in honor of their 60th Anniversary

Interior Design

We were required to design a studio as our last project of the color class. I chose to go with a complementary color scheme, blue and orange. The walls are a blue-green color, and the wood has an orange tone so they show each other well. The ceiling and carpet are light to keep the room from being to visual stimulating and the curtains are dark to tone down the room overall, especially when sun comes in.

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JX Color System

For color class we were tasked with coming up with our own system for organizing color. This is mine. Each "tab" has a hue on the front. There are 13, one for each primary, secondary, and tertiary color, and one for gray. Each tab then folds out from the center to reveal the tints and shades of that particular hue. It is a great way to carry and compare color on the go.

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Musical Interpretation

In color class, we listened to four pieces of music and interpreted them through color. These are my results:

Music Piece: Guateque

Music Piece: Chinese Traditional

Music Piece: Hula Girls

Music Piece:Holz

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Color Study- Contemporary

For my color class, I needed to take two pieces of artwork, one contemporary and one historic and reproduce them in a range of color schemes. This is my contemporary piece, by Mark Rothko.

Red, Orange, Tan, and PurpleMark Rothko
1949
Oil on Canvas

What follows are reproductions of this painting in varying color schemes. Monochromatic, Primary, Complementary, Analogous and finally a reproduction of the actual palette.

Rothko Reproduction Monochromatic (green)

Rothko Reproduction Primary (red, yellow, blue)

Rothko Reproduction Complementary (blue and orange)

Rothko Reproduction Analogous (green, blue, purple)

Rothko Reproduction Actual Palette

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Color Study - Historic

For my color class, I needed to take two pieces of artwork, one contemporary and one historic and reproduce them in a range of color schemes. This is my historic piece, a japanese ukiyo-e print from the late 1800s.

What follows are (rough) reproductions of this print in varying color schemes. Monochromatic, Primary, Complementary, Analogous and finally a reproduction of the actual palette.

Ukiyo-e Print Reproduction Monochromatic (blue)

Ukiyo-e Print Reproduction Primary Colors (red, yellow, blue)

Ukiyo-e Print Reproduction Complementary (yellow and purple)

Ukiyo-e Print Reproduction Analogous (red, yellow, orange)

Ukiyo-e Print Reproduction Actual Palette


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