Off With My Headers

I've been making some pretty good headers lately, especially when compared to my old stuff, but it seems like no one is actully liking them :(. This one is for ezicing--I'm trying to Revamp it to get the quality of the site and its visual happiness to be equal. However, my mom promptly said she didn't like it.

Try #2, throw in the dots. She likes the dots, but still says something's wrong...

Try #3, didn't like the "squares," so she likes it without them, but still doesn't like it...Someday I shall conquer this project.

I did this one a while ago, thoroughly proud of the great new logo, the typography, the color scheme. I sent it to my dad and...rejected! He said there's no color! I didn't want there to be much color, I thought the nice cold business scheme was gonna work out...It's still my favorite, but I also like my last header.

Magazine Spreads

My final project in Computers and Art. I had to design two spreads, a content page, and a cover for a magazine--thus, I made up Simply Cake Decorating, my mom's personal cake exhibition magazine. Right now, it's free of charge, but there are limited supplies, so get one quick. Also, be sure to check out the new charity that's opened up, I call it, "The Jess Brown Foundation For Starving Artist College Kids Who've Played Lacrosse And Drums And Halo And Who Speak German And Who Go To USU And Are Freaking Awesome Even Though They Have No Money So Donate To Us." Like it? I do.

Valley of Predators Revisited

I re-did my book cover so I could chop the minus off my grade, and I certainly do like my title better. Note that this is an image to be printed, which is why the picture is lightened kinda strangely, but based on how dark the copy center's been printing, this probably would be quite beautiful :D. I also added little jeep details in the lights on the back cover.

Life Is...

Dec 8 2009

This was a cool quote, so I thought I'd take a shot at some Typography--getting me excited for next semester, I think it's the class I've been most awaiting since I started Graphic Design, actually. Typography is too cool and I can't wait to figure out what I'm doing.

Finals Week!

After my final in Computer Science, I decided to clean up the mess I'd made the last couple days, then remembered my commissioned project to create a star for #9's tree, so I cleaned a little and then sat down for a couple hours and came up with this wire-star. I then spray-painted it black, a nice finish, and it now looks super cool! Merry Christmas! :D (Dec. 7)

My final in 3D Design. It's a Peregrine Falcon found-object sculpture. This was fun. (Technically finished Dec. 7)

I think this is actually my favorite angle, because the "feathers" are just so cool--and so is the tail.

Side view. I thank Jeremy for providing the necessary piece that balanced the darn thing.

Falke! Sehr cool.

Time-Bound

My last 3D Design project was a metamorphosis project using clay. I choose two objects (an hourglass and a ball-and-chain) and made a sequence that morphed one into the other. It was pretty cool, I love the actual ball-and-chain one (above), I think it was my best.

The whole thing.

Tiles 1 and 2.

Tiles 2 and 3.

Tiles 4 and 5. It's funny, 'cause there actually was some thought that I put into the meaning of this piece (I usually just come up with some BS the day a project is due and pretend I had more intentions and purpose for doing things other than just doing it because it was an assignment). I kept thinking about how time is binding and how it, itself, is also bound; we live according to time and we also don't have enough time. That's why I chose and hourglass and the chains. Thought that was pretty cool.

Gangsta Pics

'Cause we are freaking awesome!

Book Cover: Valley of Predators

My computers and art project. It's 10" x 18" and freakin' awesome. The arm is my roommate's, and I really like how my picture turned out after playing with it in Photoshop for so long. If you'll notice the bottom right-hand corner, it's brought to you by Phobia Publishing--recognize the logo? It's from my first comp and art project! Genius!

Scarab

The scarab beetle has one of the coolest shapes, in my opinion, in the bug world. I particularly love the abstracted shapes the Egyptians used in their depictions of the "sacred" bug. To show how consistent I am with my love of the shape, I'll let you know that my favorite view of this playing-card-beast is the bird's eye view, which is the most common view of the scarab beetle in both ancient and modern artforms and abstractions. It took forever to make. I love the legs--especially the back ones, I thought it was genius how I made the two back legs as one element, but still portrays the idea that there's two legs. I hate the head, but that's what I get for procrastinating, I suppose--though my teacher said that was what she liked, so if it pleases her, it pleases me.

We're Certified!

Icons to be placed on sites to reassure the customer the site is tested, trusted, and certified. These are pretty cool, I think. I love the second one, 'cause I can use the technique for other things, just happened upon the effect by accident. Love it!

I Called It Crag

Here's the assignment; create a module (shown above) and make 20 of them, afterwhich put 'em all together into a 3D sculpture. I chose this awesome shape and based it off a fractal, because I think fractals are some of the coolest designs ever, hooray for math! Love it.

Bird's eye shot. You can see how I kept the composition pretty close to the module (making this "sculpture" a pseudo-fractal, since I didn't obey the strict iteration rules of fractals, but it's pretty close). Having a hard time seein' it? Check out the module in the first picture and note the "T" shape, the little square by itself and the bendy shape. Look at this picture, there's also a "T" shape, a bendy thing and the loner square--which is attached, but it's raised a bit to take its place in the "fractal," so there ya go.

Nice angle. Thank you, did it myself. You're welcome.

HFH T-Shirt Designs

There were a bunch of fliers in the FAC for a Habitat For Humanity t-shirt design contest. Here were some of the ones I came up with and actually created on the computer. However, I didn't submit the design in the top right. Maybe I should've, but I thought two was good enough. Hope I win!

Web 2.0 Sales Page

DazzleBright Teeth Whitening Sales Page
I think this is my first successful web 2.0 web design, and it's certainly my favorite design I've made for sales pages, although Syncnet's probably not gonna use it, I learned a lot of good stuff at work on this one. This is actually not finished, because I was waiting for pictures that were never given to me, which explains the unfinished bottom and not-so-personal feel of the page. I also don't have a logo for the product.

Phobias

This is my project for my Computers and Art class--the assignment was to take 3 interrelated subjects and create a set of icons that communicate the subject/topic/whatever at 2" x 2" and at 32 px x 32 px. How did I do? I think it went really well--just finished 'em about an hour or so ago.

Decorating

Got a little excited with the sidewalk chalk and put it on the wall outside.

Sunset. Spray paint. On cardboard.

Random. Spray paint. Complementary colors. On cardboard.

My roommates wanted something on our large blank wall, so we all went spray painting. They did so well with their first tries at it, woohoo! Lotsa fun. I only contributed 4 or 5. The layout's pretty cool in and of itself. Too bad half of it has fallen off the wall.

Stapler!

This was a project for my 3D design class. I had to choose an object to build out of wire and it was supposed to be based off of direct observation and had to fill at least two cubic feet. Therefore I chose the almighty stapler.

Pretty much pulled an all-nighter last night, slept on the couch from 6:30ish-7:47, then went to the FAC, carrying this beast all across campus and getting dirty looks from practically everybody that looked my way. Now it's really hard to concentrate and when I look at the carpet I think I see pieces of wire all over--they're not real, they're not real, they're not real. I thought I did a slick job, though, and I've got the aching callouses to prove it.

Random Cartoons

Sat down to watch Jaws last night, ended up drawing these guys--more to come if I feel like it. They're supposed to be stackable like the bunch in the top left. I want to make a bunch of these random guys and put in some kinda cool collage thing--this style is something I've seen going around a lot in Graphic Design right now, so I figured I'd try out something different (I usually hate drawing cartoon things, but this was kinda fun).

Time For Change

I'm getting tired of this header now, so prepare for a new in the near future. It's still cool, though, so I want to keep it on here.

Quick Pics

Shoshone Falls, Idaho

Train at Golden Spike