Lucky Number 7

This is a graphic design project from earlier this semester. We had to design a calendar - the guidelines were pretty open, we could do pretty much anything we wanted. I decided to base mine on the concept of 7 - you know, 7 days of the week, it totally fits. Researched a bunch about what in the world comes in sevens, and found out most of them were either based on spiritual themes or worldly geographical themes.

I got some good comments on the color schemes - I tried to make the colors of each month/week relevant to the theme of the month. Though, a little secret: got a lot of help in figuring out the colors from Adobe Kuler. It's a fantastic color resource.

There's even an explanation bit underneath all the weekly pages. Just in case you don't know the 7 deadly sins, or the 7 wonders of the world, etc.

If I had the resources, I would pick a fancier coil instead of a standard white plastic one, perhaps a shiny wire one. But it's okay, I'm still glad I got it bound all nice and neatly.

Colors and patterns

Just FYI, be prepared for a project dump over the next few days. I promise I'll try to keep it one project per daily post.

This here is my Graphic Design 4 final project. The aim was to explore color schemes and patterns from natural sources and compiling it all into a color guide of sorts.

Mine is a sky theme, in the format of a log documenting the atmosphere and mood of the moment in a sort of metaphoric way. Click the link below (or the swatch above) and enjoy:

http://www.yvonneweng.com/gd4color.swf

Experimental Type epic final

My final project for Experimental Type class! The project is to design an alphabet, and you can do a whole range of implementations - and as you can see, I decided to go more illustrative, inspired by fashion illustrations of fancy hairstyles. This was also my first time working with inking with a tiny brush. I'm quite pleased with this project, it was definitely fun to do. The actual printed poster size is 20x30 inches, giving it a nice grand scale on the wall.

New Found Glory - poster

Oh man, just occurred to me that this is soon.

Made this poster a few weeks ago for Experimental Type class (taught by the Bruce and Nolan of PostTypography). We had an actual client (monozine.com), who is the promoter for all sorts of shows at Sonar and Ottobar, and everyone got assigned a band/show to make a poster for. In turn, we get a free ticket to see the show we designed for, and we've been encouraged to meet the bands and give prints of the poster as gifts.

I suppose I shall go. At least it's on a Friday night. However, I REALLY want to go see Of Montreal (which Chen got to design the poster for), at Sonar this Tuesday night. But it's a freakin Tuesday night, right in the middle of the most hectic part of my week. And I haven't bought a ticket for it yet (because I can't decide if I'm really gonna go). Oh dear...

Which reminds me, if they actually used the student designed posters, where would it be? I haven't see any of the posters my class designed, but then again, I don't hang out at bars and music venues on a regular basis.

Unofficial "business" cards

I whipped these up the evening before the career/internship fair, so I can have a card to give out.

I don't like calling them business cards...I like thinking of them more as online-portfolio-hand-out-cards.

Portfolio site update

In frantic preparation for the month of April, which means time to buckle down and seriously start securing summer internships as well as prepare for the MICA career fair this Friday, I did a complete overhaul of my portfolio site. Check it out - has a good collection of my graphic design works, old and new:

http://www.yvonneweng.com/portfolio.html

(Note: let me know if it doesn't work for you, I am going under the assumption that by this day and age all computers and browsers can handle flash. It may also take a moment to load for some people.)

In other news, this 18 credit semester (with 4 studios including an animation and life drawing on top of 2 GD studios) is kicking my butt. It has hit that time of year where it's crunch time in all my classes, time to think about final projects/presentations/papers. Starting to go crazy now...*sigh* Next year I'm taking it super easy and doing 12 credits...ha.

GD4 Project - Robot Fest

Latest project for Graphic Design 4: design a poster for Robot Fest, which is coming up sometime next month and it seems to be a small convention of robot-building geeks and nerds (which sounds pretty cool actually). The teacher is collaborating with the guy from Robot Fest and there's a possibility that the client will pick one of the students' designs to really use to advertise.

So here is mine - we had to make a full package of poster/postcards/flyers/shirts (poster/shirt shown below):

Honestly, I think I like my shirt the best - I'd totally wear it. Overall feedback from the class is perhaps a different color palette (black is perhaps a bit too serious/outdated). Which is cool, I'd totally redo it with some different color variations but I don't have the time or energy to, so I won't - unless the client picks my design (which I doubt would happen). Haha.

Graphic Design 3

Oh right, I am still working on slowly revealing the stuff I've done this past semester as a GD major. So of course I should show stuff from my GD3 class, which was more of a "let's confuse all the students by making this all about FLASH" class.
So here is the final project, which is a flash based site that includes all our previous projects.

From PhotoImaging

Here's a random selection of some of my better photos, most of which I did for PhotoImaging class this past semester:

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A belated happy new year to you all...I always forget that I still have this blog. It's perhaps one of the saddest sketchblogs out there I realize, after spending some time browsing through all my other MICA buddies' blogs. (It also prompted me to update my list of links to "sketchblogs that are much better than mine".)

I guess one of my 09 resolutions can be to try to post more worthy stuff. Also to draw more. I rarely draw anymore. Except that will change this spring, because I signed up for a Life Drawing class. I look forward to it. Hopefully I can finish my sketchbook soon.

Posters from Flex Studio

I thought I'd show some posters I've done in Flex Design Studio this past semester.

Baltimore ABC

I got the letters E and I - Edgar Allen Poe and the Inner Harbor. That's a dragon paddle boat represented for Inner Harbor, not a Loch ness monster.

Poster for a (fake) graduation show

It really complements a whole invitation package (which I have not yet gotten around to photographing. But it all has the floral type pattern, with my hand drawn scribbles of stuff that represents me. I designed it to have a spot varnish on the floral pattern, so that it'll have that glossy effect on just the flower things.