Multidisciplinary
Visual Experimentation
In the breathing room of my larger projects, I wanted to keep up the creative momentum so I started incorperating “creative sprints.” A way for me to test my knowledge of softwares like Illustrator and Photoshop. Sometimes these exersices take me away from a screen; carving out linocut stamps, sketching an image, cutting out a collage, etc.
Type design has been a skill that I have recently developed. I don’t have a structured plans for these like the Elida and Kizi Typefaces.
Viceroy, KineticData, and Apparatus were developed in close proximity to each other. The designs were meant to compliment each other, an established grid system being the baseline I looked to as a guiding star of sorts.
ConfigNEUTRAL was throught up after I saw a screensaver with an endless series of tubes.
Snapper is the more recent of the fonts. A more experimental and display focused, it having an irregular structure but industrial in nature.
These exercises represent my love for collages and caricature art, I challenge myself to complete these in a specified amount of time.
An extra challenge I have is to complete it with as few different images as possible. My goal with testing my speed is to establish a quick design workflow.
This was inspired by my hobby of caricature/portrait drawing, though I may not be good at it, I enjoy the process of abstracting proportions.
I frequently come back to collage and music inspired posters, I attribute it to their approach for “capital B, Bold and Big” visuals. I felt I need to included these designs since most of these include my common design systems.
This project was a collaboration between CCS student designers, each participant chose a different word that describes the relationship to design, I chose the word LOUD to represent my poster.
The primary reason I selected that word is because design is hard to ignore, it is all around us. Some designs are screaming for your attention, while others are whispering in their own little corner. Every aspect of design has volume.
My main inspiration for the visuals are rave posters and modern digital maximalist aesthetics. I wanted to incoorperate a bunch of assets to carry the energy and play with the idea of visual noise.
The one challenge we were tasked to adapt to was an element to transition into each other, making each poster a part of a larger sequence. (Project page