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Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was...

Wed, 18 Jan 2012 00:03:00 -0500

Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was taken by me with a Pentax PZ-10.

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Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:59:00 -0500

Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was taken by me with a Pentax PZ-10.

For full size image, click here. To listen to Memory Palace, click here.

Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was...

Tue, 17 Jan 2012 23:57:00 -0500

Cover art I designed for the band Memory Palace. The photo was taken by me with a Pentax PZ-10.

For full size image, click here. To listen to Memory Palace, click here.

Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation, it’s...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:34:00 -0500

Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation, it’s diffusion and re-invention based on Everett M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations.

Response A graphic illustration of the Innovation-Desicison Process for a single adopter category, the Late Majority.

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Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation, it’s...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:28:00 -0500

Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation, it’s diffusion and re-invention based on Everett M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations.

Response A graphic illustration of the Innovation-Desicison Process for a single adopter category, the Early Majority.

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Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation,...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 15:24:00 -0500

Proposal Field Research Report on a single innovation, it’s diffusion and re-invention based on Everett M. Rogers Diffusion of Innovations.

Response A graphic illustration of the Innovation-Desicison Process for a single adopter category, the Early Adopter.

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Proposal Using Everett M. Rogers’ Diffusion of...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:28:00 -0500

Proposal Using Everett M. Rogers’ Diffusion of Innovations, research, discuss and display an innovation of your choice in depth.

Response Here is one of the infographics I made for this project, displaying the shifts fur in fashion underwent in terms of accessibility and luxury.

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Proposal Create three icons of your choice which relate in...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:20:00 -0500

Proposal Create three icons of your choice which relate in some way. Simplify them and display them in context.

Response For my second attempt, I created my first mock up GUI interface. The app’s purpose I only vaguely addressed but would in essence, be most likely used for higher-end or progressive fast food restaurants where iPads would be placed within tables and customers would order from their seats and the food would be brought out to them.

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Proposal Create three icons of your choice which relate in some...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:12:00 -0500

Proposal Create three icons of your choice which relate in some way.

Response I chose the theme of consumerism, with two items commonly found in fast food along with sensual Warhol-esque lips, since consumerism is so often based in a primal, sexualized context.

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The final piece of my project on male birth control...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:05:25 -0500

The final piece of my project on male birth control (“blockers”). This is a quick “commercial” I made for the product. This was also not required for the project, so it’s just a rough idea & mostly for fun. The background music is the intro to Song of the Sad Assassin by Why?

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:54:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (dubbed “blockers”). This is a mock up of pocket-sized flyers the brand’s street team would pass out as promo materials. I wanted them to be eye-catching but only subtly so. This was also not required for the project, so it’s just for fun.

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (I...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:33:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (I dubbed them “blockers”). This is a mock up of cases one could buy to keep their blockers in. This wasn’t required for the project, so I just made it for kicks.

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (I...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:27:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (I dubbed them “blockers”). This is the final logo I chose for my brand, “Contre.” I wanted something that looked permanent (stamp-esque), masculine, tried and true, while still conveying the relationship between men & women.

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:19:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (which I dubbed “blockers”). This is a moodboard for “Mitch”, one of three fictional representations of certain brackets of my target audience.

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:17:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (which I dubbed “blockers”). This is a moodboard for “Johnny”, one of three fictional representations of certain brackets of my target audience.

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A continuation of my branding project on male birth control...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 13:14:00 -0500

A continuation of my branding project on male birth control (which I dubbed “blockers”). This is a moodboard for “Colin”, one of three fictional representations of certain brackets of my target audience.

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Proposal Over a semester, create a brand imaging proposal &...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 12:54:00 -0500

Proposal Over a semester, create a brand imaging proposal & presentation for a product and/or service of your choice, assuming no technological limitations exist.

Response Seeking a challenge, I chose a product which I would not be a part of the target audience. I decided on male birth control, something which would be not only controversial but also completely out of my personal experience and scope. I also felt it would be necessary to come up with new slang that men could use to talk about it, as “the pill” was too reminiscent of the female contraceptive. The final term I chose was “blockers”, one could also say they were “on the block”, etc.
This is the original, but not final, logo mock-up I created.

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Proposal Choose an innovation and create a legacy map,...

Tue, 27 Dec 2011 11:49:00 -0500

Proposal Choose an innovation and create a legacy map, highlighting important moments in its history while visually contextualizing it in a logical way.

Response The camera has undergone enormous changes, from pinhole to highly advanced camera phones which seek to replicate the “vintage” feel. Plus, drawing vectors of them was way too much fun.

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Originally, I planned on creating icons for each category in my...

Wed, 14 Dec 2011 15:07:00 -0500

Originally, I planned on creating icons for each category in my type taxonomy book, however, abandoned the idea in favor of minimalism.

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Proposal Using a given list of 125 typefaces, create a...

Mon, 05 Dec 2011 22:02:00 -0500

Proposal Using a given list of 125 typefaces, create a taxonomical specimen book. Include a cover page, introduction, a brief description of each category and letters which exemplify it.

Response I chose the taxonomy of weather forecasts. In a sense, typefaces are to a piece of design what weather forecasts are to a day. They change everything – how you feel, how you look at it, your attitude toward it, etc. Also the play on words “typecast” was too good to pass up.

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