100 IMAGES POSTER 2.0

My first attempt at the poster didn't go too well. Too generic, kinda figured that would happen. So for this one I put a little more Anna into it, and it turned out a billion times better in my opinion. My teacher loved it. I guess being true to yourself goes for when you're designing too.

100 Images poster

This is a rough idea for a poster for a possible exhibition at Pratt that would feature "100 Images That Have Changed the World".

HELVETICA LOVER

Found out my type book from last year was featured on Helvetica Lover. So cool.

http://www.helveticalover.com/post/1320324480/type-specimen-book-helvetica-neue-by-anna

Book cover

Finally finishing some projects so I have stuff to post. Recently did a book cover redesign for the novel "Forever" by Pete Hamill. The basis of the story is that there is this guy that lives in Ireland in the 1700s and immigrates to Manhattan. He is given the gift of living forever by an africa priestess, but the catch is he can't leave the island of Manhattan. The story covers the history of the city from the 1700s to around 9/11. I tried to juxtapose old and new by using an old background with a more modern typeface. Also I used 3 symbols that I thought accurately summed up the main character's journey. The symbols all represent a mode of transportation but also have a second meaning, for example the plane symbolizes modern transportation and also symbolizes the events of 9/11 which are mentioned in the story.

sketchbook

weird

These posters were a project for my silkscreening class. We could pretty much do anything we wanted as long as it used at least 4 layers. I had been thinking of doing something using the sculpture from in front of the Erie Art Museum for a while, so I combined that image with the phrase "Keep Erie Weird".  The first poster is with 4 layers, and the second one only has 3. I kind of prefer the second one.

Finished gig poster

This is what evolved from my previous post. I used a mixture of stencils, paintmarker, typography, and some screenprinting (or my version of it). I was getting mixed messages from the class critiques, so I tried taking a little bit of what was said each week. Worked my butt off but my teachers hated each version I did. Not everyone is going to love everything you make though. 

Collage

I found some cool images and made a weird collage with them in Photoshop.