Intro to AD - LEGO

Here's a quick ambient ad for LEGO, based on elevator doors opening and closing making it look like the kid is playing with his LEGO blocks:

 

We had really open reign to do what we wanted for this project. The point was to promote creativity in unexpected places and LEGO has some great ads that really push that concept.

Image + Color - Gestalt Architecture

For this project, we took images of buildings and translated them to vectors. The process started with image tracings to mimic light and shadow and help us understand the building's structure.

 

Next came the initial line vector in Illustrator:

 

Then black and white vectors, and finally the implementation of gestalt principles:

 

I took the gestalt images and compiled one final vector:

Intro to AD - Netflix

Netflix has an existing campaign along this theme, so my class expanded on it with our own ads. The goal is to show the breadth of their movie collection by taking a simple object and making it look like two images. My object looks like either a broom or a Spartan hat - items found in either the Terminal or the 300.

Intro to GIC - Semester Portfolio Covers

At the end of the semester, we put together a small, spiral-bound portfolio of all the work we had completed in the Intro to GIC class. These are a few of my composition studies for the cover image, including Weight, Width, and Space:

 

And my final composition: 

Painting I - Portrait

For this assignment, we had to paint a portrait of someone we had only seen once. It could be someone we had walked past on the street or sat with in a room, but not someone we knew personally. I chose to take a very abstract approach on painting a portrait of someone based on the shape of their face, the curve of their jaw... even the jewelry and clothing they had on that day, but I didn't want to paint their image directly. Each of the four canvases is about 3' square and depicts a different aspect of my subject's appearance.

I started out with a few layers of acrylic to set up the overall composition:

 

And the final painting:

 

Ringling purchased the top two canvases. My favorite is the top-right:

Intro to GIC - Political Composition

Here is some work from my GIC class that introduced us to Photoshop. We started by collecting images of people places and things. We organized these into categories based on popular subjects in politics (environmentalism, women's rights, etc). My final subject choice was environmentalism:

 

Next, we added political figures, shapes, and our final color pallet choice.

And here's my final political composition:

Intro to GIC - Typographic Self Portrait

One of my favorite projects for this class, we started with a photo of ourselves and vectored it with simple type forms.

 

Here's my original photo and the initial tracings that helped to define where the shapes go - from largest to smallest.

  

 

Here's the next step: we took the image and applied it to a 3D cube. The tricky part came when the edges had to match up based on positive and negative space.