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Emily Nguyen
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Decade Poster
Project: Creating class rules and designing them into a poster that matches a certain decade
Ideas: Chose 6 class rules to address. Designed poster according to the 1970's. Used 1970 elements, such as rainbow stripes, circles, and other geometric shapes. Added a paint brush, computer mouse, a drawing tablet and pen, and a camera and photos to represent Beckman's visual arts departments: drawing and painting, graphic design, and photography.
Slang Poster
Project: Choosing a currently used slang and creating a visual to portray it. Posters should have the slang, visual, and definition.
Ideas: Chose the slang "Ghosted," and designed a ghost that has a text message with no response, hence the "...". Slangs were also designed into stickers, so definition was removed, and I added an outline and background that resembled a grave stone
Phobia Posters
Project: Choosing a phobia and visually designing it in the Saul Bass style.
Ideas: Chose the phobia, glossophobia, which is the fear of public speaking. Made a single individual look like they were giving a speech in front of an audience. Person is on a podium with a microphone, but they are unable to speak which is why there is an "x" over their mouth. Audience are portrayed as red repetitive circles amidst a dark background to look intimidating. Used rough geometric shapes to resemble the Saul Bass style.
Cecil Touchon Abstract Letters
Project: Learning how to use the laser cutter and using colored cardstock to cut out the letters of your name. Letters would be used to create an artwork that resembles Cecil Touchon's style. Negative space should be apparent.
Ideas: Chose a good font and created different sizes of my name in both lower case and upper case. Used purple cardstock and cut letters even more, arranging them to make negative space. First artwork has too much empty space in the middle, but there is improvement in the second one when comparing the before and after.
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Vinyl Records
Project: Creating a mandala on a vinyl record and having its design represent the song album and decade
Ideas: Chose an album by Slim Whitman and made symbols that represented the countryside song style. Made the mandala look like a flower
Bauhaus Practice
Project: Using only geometric shapes to create the Beckman clocktower in the Bauhaus style to prepare for the actual project
Ideas: Used guidelines and alternated different shapes. Mostly symmetrical. Made different color variations. The primary colors are the Bauhaus colors.
Bauhaus Project
Project: Choosing something that is symmetrical and replicating it in the Bauhaus style by using geometric shapes and guidelines. Projects can be done on wood, acrylic, mixed media, or as an animation.
Ideas: Chose to do a fox. Decided to do coasters, so I made a set of three to be engraved into wood. The theme was arctic animals: arctic fox, arctic hare, and polar bear
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Wednesday Exercises
Project: Replicating an image in our style based on our interpretation. Exercises are typically every Wednesday, and we have one class period to complete them.
Ideas: Kept the general idea of the original image the same, but added and/or changed elements using my creativity.
Numbers represent the order in which the Wednesday exercises were done (e.g. 1 = week 1, 2 = week 2, etc.)
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#3 is a postcard for the Grand Tetons
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#4 is made into a cartoon and sticker
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#5 is made with geometric shapes only
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#6 is an advertisement for the San Diego Zoo
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#7 is a made into a sticker of a Halloween monster based off of a sunflower
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#8 is an advertisement for a grocery store, Whole Foods
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#9 is made using geometric shapes with Bauhaus style, one with Beckman colors and the other with primary colors
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