Poster

This is an image of a poster i made in InDesign. It is a finished product of a project I have been working on for quite a while. It includes process sketches of a 3D model and 2D model i created, an image of my 3D model, an image of a piece of beach glass, object study sketches of the beach glass, and a concept statement about my project. This project revolves around an artist, and an inspiration object from the artist. My artist is Dale Chihuly and i chose my inspiration object to be a peice of beach glass because Chihuly works with glass. My whole project is explained in my concept statment, so it will make more sense if that is read. Making this poster was at first difficult for me beacuse I had no idea where to start. But once i thought of putting a picture of one of Chihuly's pieces as my background, my creativity flowed from there. The title of my poster and the object study sketches got lost in the background, so i decided to make a blue brush scribble from Photoshop and put that behind each item to make them pop. I blurred, brigthened and cut my other photos in Photoshop then pasted them on InDesign. This poster gave me a better understanding of Indesign and really helped me learn how to use its tools more productively. I really enjoy how my final poster turned out, it is a prime example of my best work in InDesign thus far.

Resume

This is my Resume up to date as of April 21st, 2010. It includes my history of school, my skills relating to design, and a few activities that relate to my design past. This resume is a lot different then my general resume, which inlcudes ALL my past activities, achievements, and community service hours that relate and do not relate to a design job position. It was very difficult for me to decide what to put on this resume and what to leave out because I have about two pages worth of things that are included on a resume. I decided to include my senior project, position on prom committee, and position on yearbook staff because those directly related to design. For my senior project I learned and experienced how to decorate a room, being on prom committee taught me how to collaborate with others and make decisions on decorating a whole location, and being on yearbook staff taught me how to use InDesign and Adobe Photoshop. Since I already had these experiences, it was nice coming into my interior design classes already knowing a little bit about interior design. I know that as this year and the next few years proceed, I will have a lot more to add to my resume.

Logo

This image is a logo I created to put on my work and this blog. At first, I had a difficult time with this logo. The butterfly took about 2-3 hours to create while the swirl and text took maybe 10 minutes. What I first did to make the butterfly was put a series of arc lines and line segments together in Illustrator. The curved lines of the butterfly are all different arc lines while the middle (body) of the butterfly are 4 line segments. In the beginning I had 2 line segments stretching down the whole body of the butterfly, but I had to cut them up into 4 because I was not able to fill color into the butterflies wings. I figured this problem out because the lines were not "joined" together and did not create shapes that were allowed to be filled. This was my only dilemma, so after cutting and joining the arc and line segments together into the 4 different wings, I was able to fill the wings with the purple-pink color. For the swirl I used the pen tool. The first swirl I drew was meant to just play around and test out the tool, but I ended up liking the first swirl I made and kept it as the final one. The default text on Illustrator I liked, so I played around with the positioning of the title and ended up with what it is now. This Logo definitely gave me a better sense of the Illustrator tools and helped me learn how to use them correctly. I am very happy with the final product of my logo, I feel that it represents me very well. To me, a butterfly is spontaneous, free, elegant, and sophisticated. I really like butterflies as it is, but I also feel those words describe who I am too.