finally!

One of the best things a design student can do (besides eventually getting a real job) is enter her work in competitions and hopefully recieve good reviews. Getting work into shows and competitions is something that is highly regarded on a resume when applying for positions out in the real world. This has been one of my personal goals of my senior year. The Art Director's Club of Houston has now helped me achieve my goal! Two of my design pieces were accepted into the ADCH show: the book cover for An Invisible Sign of My Own and The Hold Steady poster, posted back in April. Horray!!! Now we wait to see at what level they judge the work...Gold, Silver or Bronze. I'll keep you updated :)

Book Cover

My book cover for An Invisible Sign of My Own, by Aimee Bender (in unfolded/flattened form). This is a book about 19 year old Mona Gray who is hired to teach math to elementary school children. Mona has a history of excelling at just about everything but begins to quit everything she is good at when her dad becomes ill with a mysterious disease. Mona seeks solace in numbers and their finite equations and the answers they provide. She develops OCD tendencies of knocking on wood out of superstition as well as eating soap to try to fend off uncontrollable feelings when her love interest tries to become intimate. The book is about her struggle to abandon her calculated world for the more unwielding path of love.

Wedding Inspiration Board

I haven't posted about the wedding yet but I just loved the visuals on this so much that I had to share it. This includes textures, patterns and colors that I want to incorporate into the wedding design. No peeking at the dress though, the future husband might be watching!

Invented Character

This was a project where we had to invent a character, inspired from an antique photograph we selected and build an interesting visual landscape for a magazine spread.

The Nest

This is a 48in ball covered in a paper mixture. It was in the Fibers show this summer at Texas State.

The Sweet Life

A direct mail VIP invitation for the Austin Museum of Art's annual fundraiser La Dolce Vita. The idea is that this will be hand delivered to a small list of select Austinites, foodies, and media personalities. Each batch of pasta sauce will be made by a chef from a restaurant represented at La Dolce Vita - which is indicated on the top. The tag on the basket points out how lavish this special event will be: "This isn't going to be a picnic"

Save the earth!

illustration for a poster about global warming and such.

Puma redo

Redoing most projects for final portfolios...this one was worth reposting as well (well, i think it is).

the hold steady

gig posters are all the rage right now with up and coming bands with serious followings. they have their own culture of design and appear to not follow any rules of design proper - regardless, our last project for poster design was just that. here's my poster for the band the hold steady.

Typefaces

I was assigned the typeface Serifa for our final project for typography class. This is a two sided poster about the typeface and its designer, Adrian Frutiger who also designed the typefaces Frutiger and the more famous, Univers. He's a Swiss designer, hence the Swiss Army Knife. The front page is conceptual and the back is informational.

REI

Headline based poster for REI, an outdoor outfitter.

The San Antonio Zoo

A series of magazine spreads for the San Antonio Zoo for Poster Design.

Dallas Morning News Update

The results are in! And I was awarded third place and $100. According to our professor, the editors really liked mine the best but wanted the word 'criticism' to be more legible, but had no time to have me fix it before they published the paper, so they chose someone else's illustration. My question is, if that was the case, then why did I get third place and not second?! Oh well, I still won a hundred bucks! Horray!

Dallas Morning News

Our latest assignment for Digital Illustration is an actual job, which a lucky winner (illustrator) will win $300 and get their illustration published next to the article in the Dallas Morning News. Here's what I submitted to the paper's art director. The winner will be chosen out of about 40 people in the two Digital Illustration Classes. Cross your fingers for me :)

spring break collage

Taking a break from thinking up headlines and tracing typefaces, here's something I did just for me.

London Film Festival

For poster design.

Pumas are cool

Digital Illustration for Puma shoes. I love this! This is one of my favorite things I've done so far. I hope you like it too.