For my East Cesar Chavez book I decided to make a process book based upon a typeface I designed for the area. This first image is the cover of the book. 

One of the more successful aspects of the book was the cover pages. I really enjoyed doing type experiments with the typeface I created. 

Here you can see every single letter being used in a custom type specimen sentence I created solely for this book. 

Experience Pins

The point of this project was to travel to 4 new locations inside Austin, which you have never experienced or been before. These locations needed to give or make you feel a certain feeling. These feelings could have been: wonder, joy, solitude, surprise, hope, and delight. I went to super burrito, which gave me delight, and attended a warehouse party, which brought me joy. In my warehouse design I wanted to graphically display the energy I felt at the party. I did this by incorporating and working with lightning bolts in my button. In my super burrito design I decided to use a cartoon representation of super burrito. I also wanted to use graphic burritos in the tags to represent a heart with the slogan “I love super burrito”.

Weather Report

The purpose of this weather report project was to create an animation inside After Effects to represent a futuristic weather forecasting outlet.  We had to represent 3 LATCH systems in this project. I choose to use Location, Time, and Hierarchy as my three latch systems. I decided to choose 4 European cities: Berlin, Dublin, London, and Madrid. The use of videos to outline the states was where, I believe, I really excelled in this project. It added a futuristic quality to the project that would have not been there otherwise. I also really wanted the icons used to be futuristic, so I made them 3D and very graphic.

Backpack Contents

In this exercise we were given the prompt that you would go on an adventure and you could bring one bag with you. You had to visually show what you would carry with you in this bag. My bag was quite simple with only things that I thought I needed such as: sunglasses, a notebook, a pen, a lighter, a snack and a crystal. This assignment was mainly about how you layout the items out in a visually pleasing way and also about editing your photos in Photoshop. I achieved this by really spending a diligent amount of time in Photoshop cutting the items out of the background.

Location

Alphabet

Time

Catagory

Hierarchy

Latch Exercise

This L.A.T.C.H. exercise was given to us to familiarize ourselves with After Effects. Latch was also an acronym for Location, Alphabet, Time, Category, and Hierarchy. This exercise taught me a lot about positioning, 3D objects, and effects you can use in After Effects.

Critical Mass

Critical mass was a project assigned for us to choose from a list of scientific terms. I ended up choosing evaporation. I represented this term by having a husband fall down in life with personal problems and with his wife he then gets picked back up by self-motivation. Then finally returning to his wife once he was better. This was a good introductory project for After Effects. However, I had many struggles with After Effects in the sense that I lost my project completely twice.

Personal Geography: Cognitive Map

The purpose of this map was to come up with certain actions humans can do and make a flow chart with choices. By letting the viewer choose his or her own path each person could ultimately end up in a different place or end point. My map deals with different places you can travel in Europe based upon money and interests you have. I decided to split it up in areas at first being do you want to spend a little amount of money or spend a greater amount money. The cent sign and dollar sign represent this. From there it allows you to choose from a range of interests that end you up at a corresponding European country. I represented the interests with graphical images and used outlines of the countries for the end points.

Personal Geography: Perceptual Map

In this perceptual map we needed to design a map that will take and give insight to the viewer of a meal eaten. I decided to choose a steak dinner and to educate the viewer on different types of cuts of a cow. I achieved this by making graphical symbols for the 5 senses: sound, smell, taste, look, and feel. Some were more straightforward such as the look of the cut. Some were much more abstract like the sound of chewing meat. Overall I wanted to create a psychedelic visual representation of this steak meal and I believe I accomplished this with the color palette used.

Personal Geography: Artifact Map – Recreation

This map challenged us to visually show a path taken everyday. Our paths were limited to a small enclosure. I choose the path I take every morning from my apartment to the Arts Building. I choose to use bicycle rims as my path indicator because that is what I use to make the journey back and forth from the Arts Building to my apartment. I used green plots to represent fields, red rectangles are buildings on campus, and orange rectangles represent residential homes. Incorporated in the map are major streets and smaller street names. To give insight to the viewer with the fore mentioned path.

Pop Art

In this exercise we were given three random prompts and had to choose one to visually represent in Photoshop. My prompt was to display the scene of Jesus Christ on the cross. We then had to bring in items to scan into the computer using an array of scanning techniques. I successfully represented this scene by displaying my plush teddy bear toy among scanned pinecones in the shape of a cross.