Entirely Oats Product and Packaging Design

This is a recently completed packaging project for a fictitious company called Entirely Oats. The concept is based on reinventing oatmeal for consumers while maintaining its wholesome nature. Using old fashioned oats, dried fruit, and vintage inspired packaging with a modern twist, the entire feel works toward promoting an interesting new take on a long standing product. The labels are screen printed on paper bag type material. Flavors are: Just Peachy Peach, Cravin' Craisin Raisin, and Fan of Banana! There is also a measuring glass cup included inside for convenience. I am very excited about the final result of Entirely Oats and hope you enjoy viewing!

Greensense T-shirt Design

I did this t-shirt design for UW-Stout's environment student group Greensense this fall. It is very graphic and 70s inspired. I really like the simplicity of the design and vintage feel it has in a modern way. The illustration shows a tree and the earth.

Fall 2010 Greensense Poster

This is a new poster I did for the Greensense environmental student group at Stout. I played with the wood texture, and the effect of virtual woodcarving and spray painting. It was a fun little project.

Revised Self Portrait

Since posting my final Life Drawing Self Portrait project last May, drawn from a mirror, I have revised the contour line drawing into a value drawing. Using the contour lines I created previously, it helped me to resolve three-dimensionality issues in how to shade the drawing in a realistic way to create volume. If you compare my previous contour drawing to this revised value drawing, you will be able to see the shapes here that were devised in line in the other drawing.

NASA Internship Webcast Video

I am very happy to be able to post the video I worked very hard on during my internship at the University of North Dakota this summer. The internship was 2 months long and consisted primarily of classes, research, and video production. Funded by NASA, it was called Communicating Climate Change, and the goal of my 9 fellow interns and I was to create 4 different webcast videos, of 5-7 minutes each, focusing on different environmental issues. All the preliminary research, scripting, storyboarding, graphics, music, video shooting and editing, was done by us. In short, from start to finish we did the work to put the videos together. The future purpose of these videos is for teaching middle and high school students about climate change, and to stimulate discussion topics relevant to the presented issues. My partner, Korey Southerland, and I produced the video on Land Use Change. Please enjoy!

See Global Climate Change Videos here!

Final Portfolio Summary

Self Portrait (5/11/10) - drawn by looking at a mirror, pencil

I believe over the time of the course I have achieved the objectives. I worked hard to learn how to draw the body, and how it is formed by its underlying structure. Repeatedly practicing drawing, the spine first, then the rib cage, then the pelvis, etc, helped to learn why the body is shaped the way it is at different angles. And this has helped me to be able to draw and sketch much more quickly the human body in varying positions, because I understand so much more about how the body moves. Learning how to draw effective contour lines taught me a lot about the undulating curves and dimensionality of the human form as well. It was difficult at first to be able to look more critically at what I was drawing and translate it to a 2D surface in only line work.

What I needed to work on the most since midterm was my shell drawings. I feel like they have definitely improved, because I have had more practice drawing my shell, and it was a very unfamiliar form for me at first. The angles and perspective of the shell are more dynamic, and more accurate in especially my last shell drawing. The last two shell drawings were more difficult because ink was added, but I like my last shell drawing the best, since I knew better how to work the ink, I think it is much more effective as a medium in the fourth drawing.

As a Graphic Design major, I will use what I have learned in life drawing in the future because I learned some valuable skills. I have learned so much about the human body, and how to draw the body anatomically accurately. Since I have always liked to draw, this helped me to learn new ways to approach the medium. Especially new to me was drawing with contour lines so much, because it taught me how to see dimensionality with a much more critical eye than value shading. Anytime I need to do any sketching, or incorporate drawing a 3D form into my work, I can use some of the knowledge and skills I learned. Aside from my major, though, I really enjoyed the class, and I will implement things I have learned in my future work, whether specifically Graphic Design or not.

Links to my Final Portfolio:
Maniken

Gesture Drawings

Homework

Long Drawings

Anatomy Sketches

Type in Motion - Project 3

Key Network from Kelli Fox on Vimeo.

This is my latest Type in Motion project. It is for my invented Key Network, a crime and mystery show channel.