Locating Place

This project was created to explore how we locate place. In the first part of this project we were to create a minute long motion piece about our first impression of East Austin. My concept behind this piece was hidden beauty throughout the Eastside. I chose to portray this through a poem by Edgar Allen Poe that I felt captured the aesthetic of what I was trying to get across. The text of the poem is inlayed with photos of the textures and hidden treasures that can be found throughout East Austin.

For the second part of this project I chose to focus on the four main sections of central Austin, North, South, East & West. I collected photos, poems, articles and song lyrics to try and recreate the aesthetic and general feeling that you get while visiting each part of Austin. As you move through the book the reader has to flip it to reflect the orientation of each part of Austin; i.e. to read the "South" section the reader must flip the book upside down.

Research Paper: Gdes History

This is the research paper I wrote and laid out for graphic design history. It is about the origin of the phrase "form follows function" and how it applies to design today. I chose minimal designing because the point of the phrase is to convey information as effectively as possible.
Form and Function

Image Analysis

For Image Analysis we were instructed to find anything that was created within the last year or two and analyze it for all possible graphic design references. I have always had an interest in wine packaging design because the design not only directly impacts a buyer's choice but the designs are usually very interesting. I analyzed the wine label for "Strong Arms" and found upwards of ten references. Instead of doing a poster I chose to create wine charms to describe the references to graphic design history. Each reference was labeled with a letter that corresponded to one of the wine charms.