Admittedly, this week entirely got away from me with work emergencies and doctors appointments, but I was able to get the promo poster done for our group! I took inspiration from the bumper sticker made earlier this week by my groupmate. They had mentioned in their write up of struggling how to make the font futuristic, so I thought adding some glitch-like font effects would maybe help the cause. I tried to keep with their color and logo choices, but add a bit more nuance because a poster provides more space than a bumper sticker.
Admittedly, this week entirely got away from me with work emergencies and doctors appointments, but I was able to get the promo poster done for our group! I took inspiration from the bumper sticker made earlier this week by my groupmate. They had mentioned in their write up of struggling how to make the font futuristic, so I thought adding some glitch-like font effects would maybe help the cause. I tried to keep with their color and logo choices, but add a bit more nuance because a poster provides more space than a bumper sticker.
When I was 17, I knew I would get a tattoo. When I was 18, I was like, “I’m 18, I can’t make a choice for something to be on my body longer than I will be in it”. When I was 19, I knew I would get a tattoo if I felt really committed to it and had wanted it for a while (like, at least a year). Now, I’m 20. I don’t have a tattoo, and I probably won’t get one anytime soon. If I did, it would be something for my siblings or my pets or something, but that’s not a super fun idea for an assignment. Gun to my head, right now, if I had to get a tattoo, I think I would get one on my ankle or arm of the Japanese maple tree growing outside the front of my childhood home. The beauty of Japanese maples is how colorful they are, and getting a tattoo with color ink and not the regular black has a higher risk of allergies, so I don’t know that I would ever risk it.
The Japanese maple in question, in all its glory.
In a perfect world; however, I could get whatever tattoo of whatever color, it would have no negative repercussions, and I could remove it with a snap of my fingers if I ever didn’t care for it anymore. If this were the case, of course I would get the gorgeous tree of my childhood home tattooed on me. I would get something like this! It’s obviously not perfect or exactly what I would want, but I’m happy with how it looks.
It was lots of fun getting to design something meaningful that I would put on my body forever (maybe).
So, while I’ve created my course character, I haven’t been able to get the writeup posted yet. Nevertheless, I thought that since this week’s theme is visuals and trying to relate them to our course characters that a business card would be a great way to introduce my character, Lenore Glaphyra, a femme fatale self-made gothic event promoter. Networking and connection are basically her whole thing as an event runner and promoter and she’s incredibly skilled with it as well.
I created her business card to showcase her personality and add in some slight subliminal messaging. The colors and fonts keep with the gothic theme, but I wanted to incorporate spiderwebs surrounding the border to symbolize the schtick of creative, charismatic networking. In old myths and stories, spiders are cunning, persuasive, and ingenious. Their webs are literally made to catch anything and everything the spider needs and that’s exactly what Lenore does with her networking skills. I also used the splice text effect on Canva to show depth as well as something lying below the surface. This symbolizes Lenore’s past which haunts her (also shown with the addition of the ghosts); she’s more than meets the eye and she wasn’t always the person she is now.
Business card for Lenore Glaphyra, femme fatale
This design was pretty simple, but it took quite a bit of planning and thought to make sure the messages I wanted to use were shown in a way I felt fit in with Lenore’s aesthetic as well as her internal character traits. It wasn’t very difficult, I know Canva well, but it did consume quite a bit of time.
I’ve been developing an online portfolio to showcase my work for internship applications, so I knew this logo project would be an excellent opportunity for my website and me. I added the logo to the navigation bar to serve as a link back to the home screen and to use as the website’s favicon. My hope for this logo is that it demonstrates my skills to potential hiring managers.
I’m not very good with graphic design software so for this assignment, I used Canva, which I don’t know if that’s classified as a graphic design software, but I wanted to show that I at least have an eye for aesthetics. Typically, I prefer bright colors and bubble letters, as those better reflect my personality. However, this logo is different because I want to convey a sense of professionalism and class. I incorporated my initials and intersected it with my first and last name, so that viewers can easily identify who I am. Adding my role title was a difficult decision because I didn’t want to limit myself. However, I realized that I currently manage social media to market events, and the internships I’m applying for are in social media marketing. So, I figured if the shoe fits, wear it. I’m pleased with how this design came out because I think it is versatile and I will be able to use it for years to come.
As one of the assignments for this week, I created two ID cards for my course character, Bethany Smith.
For this card, I used an ID making website and then saved the PDF. It was a little hard to use as the website was quite laggy, but I think it turned out nice!
Bethany’s ID Card for her job at the funeral home.
For the library card, I just searched for the Chicago Public Library card and erased the example name and signature on Photoshop. After that, I added back in Bethany’s name and signature using the text and paint tools, respectivley.
Her library card, because of course she’s a reader!
This tattoo inspired by The Dark Knight Rises represents how batman fights for the right thing from the shadows and no matter how many times he fails he gets up and try’s and try’s until he succeeds and overcomes whatever he is fighting for. It also serves as a constant reminder that no matter how far deep you think you are to get up and overcomes any and all obstacles thrown at you
This is a trading card I created for the character of DK that I created. I liked the mysterious aesthetic of the picture I found so I used that. DK is extremely smart so that’s why he got a 95 IQ he also is sneaky and is able to do a lot without being caught or noticed but his morals are constantly changing and confused
This would be a great license plate for DK since he is amazing at staying low and appearing and disappearing without a notice. The plate spells out disappear while fitting into the character limit that is given when creating a plate.
I chose the movie The Princess Bride because it’s a classic movie that was a comfort movie for my sister. This in turn resulted in me being stuck watching it many times (the younger brother never wins the battle for the TV remote). There was one scene that stuck with me during the times I involuntarily watched the movie and it was the Battle of the Wits scene. I wanted to do this as a connection to my sister because it is because of her that I will watch this movie every once in a while.
