Icon Series
Fall 2019-2020
The objectives for this project is to create a series of visually interrelated icons based on research of metaphoric as well as literal contexts. Rigorous reading and image searches beyond the obvious will inform the students of their ability of transforming ideas to artworks. Combining the visual research with acquired knowledge will advance the design research and broaden our perspectives of seeing and feeling.
This research brings students to the realization that icons can simplify, order, inform, direct, and clarify complexity. Through the gestalt principles of similarity, continuation, closure, proximity and figure/ground we develop icons with distinctive, visually dynamic results. The icons students create will become a system, even a language.
Visual Translation & Connotation through Syntax
Fall 2018-2019 | Fall 2019-2020
Connotation (as used in design):
Stresses the intellectual properties used, as well as, the conceptual results of the new meaning when juxtaposing images that play on minimizing visual noise.
Denotation (as used in design):
Narrative, words or icons juxtaposed to an unrelated image to change the obvious narrative of the image.
Political Poster using Letterpress
Summer 2017-2018
This project utilize the letterpress printing process to investigate type in typographic form. The objective is to be as inventive as we can be with all the restrictions of traditional knowledge. The primary focus will be on visual aesthetics and a personal conviction to the context.
The assignment is to create a poster design to unify the divide that is plaguing our society.
