the vinyl covers

Fun, movement, lively, happy, upbeat, bright, modern

Smooth, sad but hopeful, content, classic,

vinyl covers

Two digital mockups. I want to create analog versions and use those as the final covers.

ascension

keynote - in progress

These are just images of the keynote we've created for our presentation of our design. This is in progress, lacking photos of the final piece in all respects - sketches, the front, side and back views, the model images.

details

These are details about our (Alyx, Edith, Mercedes, and I) project, Ascension. It's our new concept.

environmental design concepting

Environmental Design Concepting

Click on those words above. It will take you to Mercedes' blog where our original proposals are documented.

We chose the Pillar proposal and worked on refining that concept. There will be 14 4-foot tall pillars representing the 13 majors and the Foundations program. A central 12-foot tall pillar, marked with an abstract letterform on top, is the central marker that each pillar moves outward from. We went in the route that the 13 majors and Foundations program are the roots and base of the Kansas City Art Institute and keep it alive.

location scouting

Photos of the location for our environmental design.

packaging, photos

These are the picked ideas for the packaging project. Each box is printed on cardstock from Office Depot. I photographed them in the studio downstairs and edited in photoshop.

Altered photo

Illustration

Photographic

packaging, part dos

Just some progress on this package project.

A shot of the package army.

This is the one that was most well received during critique.

I've been working this weekend on some new packages with the input I got from critique. When I feel they're ready, I'll do some work to get them posted.

the package project

Package redesign - Crayola Oil Pastels

I took my oil pastels and started recreating the package for it. The initial package is really pretty ugly.

This photo is upside down, but you can still see the ugly. I guess it works on a certain level because it is Crayola and they make products mostly aimed toward young children and I think this screams children - the bold yellow and green shapes that make up the background, the purple color of the typeface, the typeface that oil pastel and 16 are set in. It all feels childish to me, and works in that sense. 

But. It still looks ugly. So let's redesign!

These are the ones I've come up with and printed except for the black and white one I created. It didn't print well; I'll put up the document shot of it.

These are some new ones I've made since Friday in class when we critiqued with each other.

Just a couple of tweaks to one of the original ideas. A lot of feedback I got was that the boxes with the actual pastels on them worked stronger. I made that change and then added an idea I had late Thursday night: use actual artwork made by the pastels on the top portion.