With Design in Mind

2010-04-26T13:25:00.001-07:00

Awesome

2010-04-21T08:17:00.000-07:00

In my opinion this is good design.

Futura Poster Final

2010-04-19T10:52:00.001-07:00

For this 11x17 poster I used thirty percent recycled paper with a cream tint. I think the paper gave the poster a warm, finished look and complimented the time period well.

2010-04-12T11:35:00.001-07:00

Tapes N' Tapes Poster Design

2010-04-12T11:02:00.001-07:00

German Based; Futura typeface

2010-04-07T12:26:00.000-07:00

Ryan Adams Nashville, TN concert

2010-04-06T07:05:00.001-07:00

http://www.archive.org/details/ryanadams1999-10-28.sbd.flac16

Show & Tell Monday 4/5

2010-04-05T08:04:00.000-07:00

SOURCETOP20: WORLD GRAPHIC DESIGN STARS

About the design

This design is a promotional poster for the exhibition "Top 20: World Graphic Design Stars", an exhibition of posters by well known graphic designers from the collection of the International Triennial of eco-posters "4th Block".

Dimensions: A0
Copyright: 2009 Aliona Solomadina

About the designer

Aliona Solomadin was born in 1982 in Kharkiv, Ukraine. Studied in Kharkiv State Academy of Design and Arts(2000-2007). She was a participant in Ukranian National Exhibitions and International exhibitions: International biennial of political posters (Mons, Belgium, 2004), Tamga, as well as the International competition of logos (Novosibirsk, Russia, 2004), the International triennial of eco-posters "4th Block" (Kharkiv, Ukraine, 2006, 2009) and "Visual Energy". Aliona participated in the exhibition of eco-projects (Berlin, Germany, 2006), the International biennial of posters "Golden Bee", (Moscow, Russia, 2006) and the "Étudiants tous á Chaumont!". She took part in the International poster competition (Chaumont, France, 2007) and the Poster festival Ljubljana (Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2009). She works as a freelance graphic designer in Kharkiv, Urkaine.

Aliona Solomadina

Su Jung Cho aka Crystal at Arendell Room

2010-03-25T23:29:00.000-07:00

Martini

2010-03-24T13:41:00.001-07:00

Martini Time!

Illustrator Playtime!

2010-03-22T13:44:00.000-07:00

In this in class exercise we learned to work with the pen tool in depth for the first time. We were asked to illustrate an animal through an image we found online. I choose my sister's siberian husky as my subject. This project was a fun exciting way to learned what exactly we can do with Illustrator. How awesome!

American Typewriter

2010-03-22T11:19:00.000-07:00

Typography Grid Project Final

2010-03-10T12:38:00.000-08:00

This project taught me a lot about design, preparing for presentation, etc.

Tangled Up in Blue

2010-03-09T21:31:00.001-08:00

A new piece by Mark Weaver, a graphic artist out of Atlanta.

2010-03-08T11:01:00.001-08:00

Fun Design Website

2010-03-03T13:48:00.000-08:00

OBSERVE here

2010-03-03T13:08:00.000-08:00

I Will Eat Local. Food not People.

Critique Pieces

2010-03-03T12:30:00.000-08:00

Option 2 "Becoming Photography"

2010-03-01T10:30:00.000-08:00

Option 1 "Becoming Typography"

2010-03-01T10:28:00.000-08:00

2010-03-01T08:28:00.000-08:00

Flaunt,Under Consideration's book on portfolio design.

A Welcome Home Series for Lily

2010-02-24T11:02:00.000-08:00

Grid Exercise

2010-02-24T10:54:00.000-08:00

To My Sister

2010-02-22T09:37:00.001-08:00

I would just like to dedicate this post to my sister, Lily. While I recognize the content is a little out of place, this is important to me. Wednesday morning, February 17th Lily and her shipmate's Tall Ship sank 300 miles off the coast of Brazil. In a ship that has circumnavigated the world and traveled hundreds of miles through rough seas this was the last event these students and crew could have expected. In life rafts my sister and her crew awaited rescue for 38 hours and were finally picked up by a passing chinese freighter heading to Argentina's coast. It was Saturday February 20th when the kids reached land. Extremely exhausted and ready to come home, please keep my sister in your thoughts.

S&T Inspiration Design Posters, Frank Chimero

2010-02-22T08:31:00.000-08:00

These inspirational design posters by Frank Chimero are very simple, much like the content of the poster. The statements are basic concepts of typographic knowledge and graphic design. I like the simplicity of the presentation.

Paragraph Exercise

2010-02-17T13:35:00.001-08:00

2010-02-17T12:27:00.001-08:00

Counter Space

Word Project Final

2010-02-17T12:08:00.001-08:00

Letter Project Final

2010-02-16T08:08:00.000-08:00

Show & Tell Feb. 15

2010-02-09T20:34:00.000-08:00

Michelle Smith's of North Carolina Bain Project poster. This is a great example of how hierarchy influences a group of text.

Also, Really awesome, geeky way for a designer's love for photography to shine in their home...I really like the eclectic choices of fonts, colors, and sizes

Letter Project Sketches

2010-02-08T09:49:00.001-08:00

Show & Tell featuring Mikey Burton

2010-02-08T08:13:00.000-08:00

I love printmaking and Mikey Burton's posters are done stylistically like a printmaking series i did in high school. I really like how in both images the text is part of and consumed by the image on the poster itself.

FontStruct Creations

2010-01-27T10:31:00.001-08:00

http://fontstruct.fontshop.com/

Let's get some shoes...

2010-01-21T14:46:00.000-08:00

So This is my first roll of film that I developed at Peace College...I really miss film and the dreaminess it drapes over a picture.

Liza Jane & Mary Catherine

2010-01-21T14:43:00.000-08:00

Bitmap Prototype 1

2010-01-20T13:16:00.001-08:00

Show & Tell 1

2010-01-20T10:47:00.000-08:00

Cool hand-done font work in this ad for a Internet spoof series on the "Unofficial Biography of Mary-Kate Olsen"
It's so hilarious and yet also so wrong...
http://verymarykate.com/

Missed Connections Pulls at my Heart Strings

2010-01-11T12:30:00.000-08:00

Sticky Note Animation

2010-01-11T12:23:00.001-08:00

Type is Art (dot com)

2010-01-11T12:20:00.001-08:00

Design Patterns

2009-12-14T11:19:00.000-08:00

Design Borders

2009-12-14T11:18:00.000-08:00

Design Medallions

2009-12-14T11:17:00.001-08:00

2009-12-14T10:54:00.000-08:00

Dirty Design 1: Andei Manifesto

2009-12-14T10:43:00.001-08:00

In this project student's we asked to create a piece with hand-done qualities. Originally for the Manifesto piece
I decided to use a 'ransom note' effect to illustrate my message. However, I learned that the ransom note effect was too distracting from the actual design

2009-11-09T20:24:00.000-08:00

We started this project with 16 3x3" squares of still life sketches. From those sketches we selected 9 final sketches which would would trasfer to 4x4" squares. The final step in the project's process is the inking of the 9 drawings.

The Composition and Line Project required three basic steps to produce a quality design. Those three steps include, Expansive Thinking, Editing, and Final Execution. Expansive thinking encouraged students to experiment with materials and make several sketches. Editing is one of the more obvious steps. Students were encouraged to limit their design to complimentary images, keeping Gestalt's theories in mind. This piece was done on 18"x24" paper with 9 4"x4" squares.

Testing...

2009-10-26T21:09:00.000-07:00

2009-10-13T19:52:00.000-07:00

The photographs go as labeled

1) Design 1 option

2) Design 1

3) Design 3

4) Design 4 option

5) Design 4

Design one's goal was destroying the identity of a square. The piece was totally non-objective. I tried to create a piece that was both interesting to look at and visually pleasing without reminding the viewer of anything in particular.

Design two's goal was the same as design one, however a different device or strategy was used.

Design three used all the pieces of a 4 inch square for an abstract design, demolishing the original square.

Design four asked for a non-objective design which retains the quality of a square. Exciting design with variety and complexity was key, while still hinting at the square.

2009-10-12T16:00:00.000-07:00

" Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking, and don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it." -Steve Jobs

Milton Glaser Draws & Lectures

2009-10-12T15:46:00.000-07:00

I'm a frequent visitor of Vimeo. I thought it was ironic that this video popped up after Carolyn's lecture on Milton Glaser

MILTON GLASER DRAWS & LECTURES from C. Coy on Vimeo.

Marks Exercise

2009-10-12T09:02:00.000-07:00

One of our first projects, the marks exercise was designed to make us expand upon our designs. We were encouraged to create abstract marks, which would signify our name, and display those marks with different emotions or styles. It challenged students to question their designs and make cognitive decisions about their designs.

Ex. What have I not done? How can I make this look different from my other designs?

I tried to have a varied degree of moods or emotion in each image. From energetic to calm and rigid to spontaneous, the design's styles evoked different emotions. Another focus, figure-ground relationship played a key role in the composition of the four pieces. Students were asked to have a wide variety of figure-ground relationships. I tried to this as well as figure-ground reversal.

Metamorphosis Process

2009-10-05T09:19:00.000-07:00

What to do...

I tried to decided between going with a simple ink out line and adding value to the images...

Rough Draft

Refinement

2009-10-04T15:27:00.000-07:00

I went home this weekend and I must say that I missed this girl the most...

2009-09-20T21:50:00.000-07:00

My friends and I had an GREAT time today at SparkCon, a festival of the arts.

There were street vendors from local artists of all ages, street art that ranged from chalk murals and graffiti to live music...

Kids were fascinated by a street cone dinosaur, a center piece on Fayetteville St. downtown Raleigh.

And to top the day off with a theater performance of Cirque De Soile: Dream Illumination was like icing on the cake...

2009-09-18T13:57:00.001-07:00

Almost done!

2009-09-09T08:23:00.000-07:00

The Longest Way 1.0 - one year walk/beard grow time lapse from Christoph Rehage on Vimeo.

2009-09-08T21:58:00.000-07:00

I took a family trip to New York over Labor Day weekend. It was a really great experience. My step-brother got married and I helped my step-sister pick out a wedding dress for next summer. I love the buzz and movement of city life.

2009-08-31T08:14:00.000-07:00

I said good-bye to my mom and hello to a new, temporary home at Peace College. I think this is the only recent picture I have of the both of us. How could you not love her? She's everything to me.

2009-08-29T17:34:00.000-07:00

"People ignore design that ignores people."

-Frank Chimero

Photographs of Friends

2009-08-29T17:14:00.000-07:00

Family Photos

2009-08-29T16:51:00.000-07:00

In these photographs is my niece and my nephews, who are the light in my life. Through these children, I draw so much inspiration in my photography...

2009-08-28T08:46:00.000-07:00

(via Mr. Fancy Pants Bryant)