font design project, "Rehab"

We were assigned into groups of four, and within our groups we were given adjectives. We had to research and compile different examples of typefaces that conveyed our respective adjectives. My group had "religious," "desperate," "nimble," and "aggressive." We took components from these four adjectives and created a font we called "Rehab." (haha) 

full letter set

some initial research sketches: 

experimenting with different components:

letter set that I was primarily responsible for

it would be the most fitting kind of vodka, obviously. 

wuslam - THE GRAND SLAM ("enough said")

WOOHOO! The Grand Slam is only a week away, and I'm already pumped to go. This was one of the bigger projects that I got tasked with, because I had to make one main poster and 10 individual posters featuring all of the poets. I decided not to go with a hand-drawn feel and come up with something very graphic, simple, because my main goal was clarity, not necessarily style. 

(you have no idea how many struggles occurred, because my computer had crashed while I was working on this. as a result, I scrambled from computer to computer for the right fonts.)

some initial sketches. i was just playing with basic visual ideas, because i felt that it would be the best way to tie together ten different poets. 

went with a vertical rectangle piano keyboard looking thing. 

white had a nice visual effect but I liked the way the dark shapes on the poets sat against  the black. 

sketches for individual posters! 

wuslam - november slam

Here's another poster for WUSlam. This one was done for the November Slam.

Went a little overboard with the "storm" theme, but it worked out. Done entirely in Photoshop. 

Some sketches/thumbnails! 

Graphic Design 06 - Get Out the Vote! ("Lolcat wants you to vote nao")

In Digital Design, our assignment was simply to create a vote poster. A lot of people came up with some really cool stuff!

some sketches and thumbnails

some rough drafts:

    

some rough drafts:

and, just for fun, Maru: 

wuslam - october slam

WUSlam once again. This poster was done for the October Slam. I went a different route and drew it all by hand, instead of constructing everything entirely by presets.

some sketches/thumbnals: 

"wuslam likes whales" (september slam and whale icons)

(final version)

I was asked to design a poster for our school's poetry slam team, and it wasn't easy. I played around with a couple of ideas:

(as you can see, none of them really went anywhere.) (though looking back, I kind of like the third one.) 

definitely rolled with the blue one. 

some sketches of whales:

 the silhouettes!