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Locating Place: Book

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Locating Place: Book. This book was made as part of the Locating Place Project for Graphic Design III. It explores E. Cesar Chavez Street in Austin, TX. For this project, I mainly focused on the nature aspect of this specific street. In the early stages of the project, I noticed large variety of flowers, trees and plants that could be found while we were exploring the street. I after more exploration and research I came to realize how important it is that nature is present in any given place and in our every day lives.  They are good for our health, aesthetically pleasing and they also add personality to the place in which they grow. Therefore, for my project I decided to choose specific locations that had such flowers, trees and plants that added personality to the place.
Home is a short story I wrote about a little boy that walked around E. Cesar Chavez in his dream looking for a way back home. During his dream he encountered different plants from specific locations that gave him hints back to his home. I based all my illustrations on places where I felt that their foliage added personality and that others could recognize if they visited this specific area of Austin.  I decided that the only color necessary was that of the plants to give emphasis to their presence. I  also decided to use speckle-tone paper and hand bind it using the Coptic stitch  because I felt that these gave a more natural feeling that would match the style of the illustrations and the overall concept of nature for the project.

Overall, I am happy with the final product of this project. While there are some small details that I would change, there is not anything  I am extremely unsatisfied with at this moment.

Locating Place: Animated GIFS

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Locating Place GIFS: The previous 5 GIFS were made as part of the locating project in Graphic Design III. They are based on the E. Cesar Chavez Street and were made as a form of brains storming and iteration process that would help us define what aspect of the neighborhood we wanted to continue exploring for the next part of the project which would be a book. I really enjoyed learning how to make these GIFS. While there are some GIFS that I would remake, I believe that they served their purpose. I thought that they were fast and easy to make and really helped me  explore various styles such as photographs, illustrations and collages.

Critical Mass

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Note: This video has music.

For the critical mass project we had to make a video in which there was an allegory for a scientific term, in my case it was Evaporation. This project introduced me to After Effects and I learned how much time and work goes into animation. I also realized that despite all the work, I really enjoy making animations. This has been perhaps one of my favorite projects so far.

Scales: Combine

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Prompt- Love

In the Combine project, we had to choose prompts at random then answer the questions with collages created in Photoshop. We gathered a lot of textures and images for our collages by scanning them in weird ways. I had a hard time making the collage because I didn’t know how to use Photoshop to select specific sections at first.

Material Studies

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Bitten
Process Book
The Material Studies project was about using everyday objects to create our own typeface. After experimenting with various materials, I chose plastic vampire fangs because I felt it was the strongest out of all the materials I experimented with. Afterwards, I named my typeface “Bitten” because I thought that it represented the essence of the material. For our final product, we turned in a process book with all our research and experimentation and a poster that had the name of our typeface placed in an environment that went with its name and material.

Scales: Construct

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EarthFireWaterWind
In this project we had to make sculptures that represented the four elements: fire, water, air and earth and then photograph them. I chose to make all of mine out of play dough and focused on using the color and shape to portray the element. While I was photographing them, I also learned how specific lighting and background can play an important role to the overall composition of a picture.

Scavenger Hunt

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Scavenger Hunt Website

The objective of this project was to take pictures of things in our surroundings and then connect them to each other using the elements of design. Then we had to place them in Photoshop and turn them into a Jpeg to display on a webpage.  The part that was difficult for me was trying to connect the pictures to each other and avoid repeating the element of design in the other pictures. 

Scales: Look

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Pot

For this project, we had to photograph objects in our surroundings that looked like letters and then place them together side by side in Photoshop to form a 3 letter word. While doing this activity, I learned that pretty much anything could be turned into a letter if you took the picture from a specific angle and focused on a certain section. After finishing this project, I kept seeing letters everywhere.