Angers, France Travel Journals
The most important aspect of studying abroad, besides the experience itself, is being able to document and understand the cultures in which you are living. During my stay in Angers, France, I have been keeping a weekly journal, documenting everyday life, my travel experiences, and the memories I am making here. In each journal entry, I include pictures, drawings, writing, and souvenirs that I can fit into my journal. The journal has helped me with going more in depth into the many different cultures that I am experiencing, but also allow me to personally document my travels while being a creative outlet for me to continue designing and exercising my creative freedom.
Pollination or Pollution?
Pollination or Pollution? by Shelby Charette
In bee hives, each and every bee has a certain job and a place in the colony, and when one bee or one issue arises, it throws the entire hive off. Along with the gifs, I wrote in depth a book about the gentrification in East Austin. Comparing the neighborhood to that of a bee hive. I integrated my bee and bee hive design throughout the book to keep my reader interested in both the story and in the design work and keep the audience wanting to read more. I used the typefaces _ and _ which are playful, yet also serious to keep it light as the book discusses a rather serious topic. The color palette I chose was lighter hues of pink paired with a darker gray purple, which is also used, like the typefaces, to have elements of light and dark. Written by me with information from my intensive research, photos, designs, and Japanese stab bound all by my own hand. I believe this book was successful in allowing me, as a designer, to express creative freedom while expressing an issue that I believe in. This book was a process of trial and error, of revising and editing, and it overall taught me the importance of pushing myself as a designer to be able to write and create something great.
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New buildings stark in contrast against the old. When exploring East Cesar Chavez, one cannot help but notice the immense differences between the old and the new. In this project, this was a phase in figuring out the identity in which I wanted to take my project, and after exploring East Cesar Chavez I decided in creating these 5 gifs to highlight the hidden treasures, along with bringing to light the gentrification of the area. For this project, I used Adobe Illustrator to create some of the text and images and Photoshop to bring the gifs to life.
Fulbright Conference Pamphlet
When thinking of Fulbright, a scholarship and educational foundation, I think of a passion for higher learning. So, I chose to create an abstract design like the shape of a flame, paired with very bright and vivid colors to mimic the intense colors of fire. I chose 2 sans serif typefaces; Geometos and Sofia Pro. Geometos I mainly used for titles, numbers in the schedule, and page numbers. Sofia Pro I chose because it was legible in small print, and it paired nicely with Geometos. The Sofia Pro font has many styles to it, which benefit me while making such a large book with many layers of text. Overall, the design is very modern with a touch of whimsical. In this project, I used Photoshop for photo editing, Adobe Illustrator for shapes, and Indesign to align all of the text. When given the assignment, we were told to not exceed a certain page limit but we had to include all of the information given, which was a large amount of text, information, and photos. Doing this assignment helped me as a designer to be able to work with what I am given and to be able to adapt my work to be able to fit the parameters of the assignment that a client has given.