I'm in India!

Follow my journey in India over the next 3 months on my blog, Adventures in Hyderabad, India!

DFIX Poster/mailer featured on Creattica!

Click here to see the link!

Greensense T-shirt Featured on Creattica!

My Greensense T-shirt has now been featured on Creattica! Very exciting! To see the link click here.

Greensense is an environmental awareness student organization at UW-Stout, and this t-shirt design reflects the focus and mission of the group. Designed to be a one-color screen print shirt to be more environmentally friendly and lower cost, and printed on an organic cotton t-shirt.

Personal Business Cards Featured on Cardview!

My personal business cards are now being featured on Cardview! Check it out!

Also appearing on The Design Inspiration.

Lumin Business Cards Get More Press!

My Lumin Business Cards are now being featured on Creattica! Psyched!
As well as on Best Business Card Inspiration!
And The Design Inspiration. Wow!

Lumin Business Card on CardObserver website!

My plexiglass business card for Lumin made it onto CardObserver! How sweet is that?
See it on Card Observer!

The Perch - Logo Design and Applications

Finally expanded this branding project for a student cafe. I had originally designed The Perch logo for a graphic design class project, and have since added applications of the logo and cafe designs.

Link to Behance Portfolio

DFIX - Graphic Design Senior Show Mailer

DFIX - Design, Fabrication, & Innovation for Xtreme Affordability

This poster/mailer was sent to over 100 midwest design firms advertising the May, 2011 UW-Stout Graphic Design Senior Show.  Every fold reveals a new message for an interactive informative advertisement.

Link to Senior Show Website
Link to Behance Album

Earth Week Poster

This poster was designed for GreenSense, an environmental student organization at UW-Stout, to advertise campus activities scheduled for Earth Week. The posters were then screen printed by members of the organization on pieces of recycled cardboard to promote the value and creative opportunity of sustainability.

Link to Behance Album

Lumin: Light Sanitation --- Final Senior Show Project

As my Senior Project, I have created Lumin's brand, products, and marketing strategy. Lumin's energy efficient LED light bulbs provide natural warm white illumination and effective sanitation. This innovative technology uses a narrow spectrum of light that can kill bacteria while remaining harmless to humans, allowing Lumin products to serve in place of regular lighting. For the first time, clean is available at the flip of a switch.

http://www.behance.net/KelliFox/frame/1501029

Painting Abstraction: Barriers

Barriers, 3 wood panels, 16"x20"

Barriers, #1

Barriers, #2

Barriers, #3

This is an abstraction series that I did for my painting class. The premise is an interpretation of self, and represents where I feel my life is at right now. I am attempting to figure out where my life is going, and this abstracted scene of bars and water horizon line are a metaphor for if I am looking at the barriers in life or the opportunities. As the paintings progress, the barriers begin to recede, showing that as our perceptions of life change, the barriers themselves change, until we no longer see what is holding us back, but what is possible and available for us if we are willing to see it. The concept for me is very important because I truly believe the way we perceive life shows a lot about our characters, values, and motivations in life.

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.

Skull Studies

These skull drawings show three different angles: profile, 3/4 back, and 3/4 front. The skull is a tricky part of the body to draw, because its shape is deceiving. The back of the skull extends much farther than it would at first appear, and the eyes are lower on the skull than might seem. It is very interesting drawing the skull, because it is the underlying structure for the face and head, and it is interesting to see what is the bases for our outer features.

#2 Ink Shell Drawing

This shell drawing I feel was more successful than my first shell drawing. I did not wash out the entire surface as I did on my last one, and this helped maintain lighter areas and more contrast overall. I really liked the brown ink with reddish-brown conte on my last ink wash shell drawing, and so I kept the combination for this one. What I really enjoy about the brown ink is the way it reveals other colors when saturated with water, such as the fuscia tone seen on the bottom of the shell here.