sketches for Graphic Design

These are some examples that Stone Creek Coffee used for its branding and some images that I loved online! I want to use some of these colors in my branding designs because I liked the approach they took and the artist style.

These are my 20 sketches for my rebranding of a Stone Creek Coffee bag. 

The Twitter Savanger Hunt and Storify

I think this assignment was interesting and kinda fun. I didn't mind going around the campus and take photos of student life. I learned from it and even met new people just by exploring what was around me. I think the one task that got me was to find a student to show me how they are a fan of our sports teams, but I found a guy who helped out with that really well. I think everyone did a great job with this one.
Prior to this assignment I've never heard of Storify and I like finding out about what it is. I think I'll utilize it again in the future.

If you want to take a look at it, here's the link: 

https://storify.com/SweetSpirit06/a-stritch-winter-s-tale

Visit to Penzeys for Branding Assignment!

I went to Penzeys to look at their branding and took some photos of their different spices sections! 

It was interesting to see how the labels don't have much design to it unless it is a specialty. Most of the jars were glass with black plastic tops that you twist open and a few had silver tops. 

Their labels are not very appealing or catching to the eye. There are different typefaces and differing design elements depending on what the spice is. 

Here's some of the photos I took! 

Spring Break Museum

For my Spring Break I went to New Jersey on a Habitat for Humanity trip. On our last night there we went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art. It was my first art museum outside of the Milwaukee Art Museum so it was an interesting experience. Im so use to the white walls at the art museum here in Milwaukee that I was not expecting what I saw. The museum had a Greek architectural look and I can just feel its vastness when I first walked in. I was told that it was one of the largest art museums in America and with only 45 minutes to spare to look around I practically ran through as much as I could. The big exhibit that was on at the time was the Treasures from Korea: Arts and Culture of the Joseon Dynasty, 1392-1910.

Here are some pictures that I took of the overall museum. We werent suppose to be taking pictures and I was so engrossed in what I was seeing that I kinda kept forgetting that I was suppose to be taking pictures.

Entry room

They had a Japanese exhibit too that was just amazing! They built an actual tea house inside the museum which was really pretty neat! The plants were alive and you could see just how much time and energy was put in to making it. 

This is what the label read on the wall just outside the door

Label:

This ceremonial teahouse was built in about 1917 by the Japanese architect Ögi Rodö. Designed in the rustic tradition or "artless style" of the fifteenth-century artist Oguri Sotan, it also incorporates eighteenth-century elements. The Sunkaraku teahouse originally stood on the grounds of Rodö's private residence in Tokyo. He sold it to the Museum in 1928, and in 1957 it was installed at the Museum, making it the only work by Rodö outside Japan. The garden setting you see now was planned by one of Japan's foremost contemporary garden designers, Matsunosuke Tatsui.

The apparent artlessness of the teahouse in fact conceals acute attention to detail and to aesthetic pleasure. The architecture of both the waiting room and the tearoom reveals a special delight in natural materials such as cypress shingles (for the roof) and bamboo. Proximity to nature is also emphasized by the garden, visible from both buildings. Everything inside the tearoom has been planned to stimulate the mind and to delight the eye. Rough, unfinished vertical posts remind guests of their imperfections and their oneness with nature, and the tea utensils enhance their sensitivity to natural textures and artistic creativity.

Label:

The tea ceremony offers a temporary respite from the complexities of daily life. This mood perhaps inspired a famous devotee of the tea cult, Lord Fumai Matsudaira (1750-1818), when he autographed the tablet over the teahouse with the inscription "Sun Ka Raku," or Evanescent Joys.

I also loved the granite pillars in the South Asian Section! Being inside this amazing building complex was surreal and it made me feel so small on this planet. 

Label:

The granite pillars, brackets, and slabs that form this temple hall (mandapa) come from the Madanagopalaswamy Temple, a sixteenth-century building complex in the south Indian city of Madurai. (The complex is dedicated to Krishna, an avatar of the Hindu god Vishnu, and is still used for worship today.) The architectural elements installed here were purchased in 1912 by Adeline Pepper Gibson of Philadelphia while on a visit to Madurai. They are believed to have come primarily from a freestanding hall that once stood in front of the main shrine and was probably dismantled in the mid-nineteenth century.

The eight stone slabs between the pillars' lion brackets depict scenes from the Ramayana, the epic tale of the hero Rama, another avatar of Vishnu. The slabs were originally part of a larger relief series that ran around the inside of the hall and narrated the entire Ramayana. The life-sized figures projecting from the central-aisle pillars are deities and characters from both the Ramayana and another major Hindu text, the Mahabharata. These include Garuda (the bird-man vehicle of Vishnu) and Hanuman (the monkey-general of the Ramayana). A variety of small relief images of divine and human figures also ornament the pillars, including Krishna as a baby, a couple making love, royal donors, and even the temple architect with his measuring stick

I wish I could have taken more pictures but there you have it! I loved everything I saw there and the amount of history it held was just incredible. I hope to visit it next year if I can!

Workshop After School

On Tuesday 2/25, I went to a workshop called: "How to Develop Your Personal Brand: Professional Networking for the 21st Century". It was mainly about how to use social media to market or promote yourself or business to employer or potential clients. I learned a lot from attending it. There were some things I already knew, but I did discover new ways to use the social media sites. I can really get better at networking and showing my skills off more in my career field. I can build more connections and have those I communicate with become those who will recommend me for jobs. The speaker gave us websites to check out and see how we can use to brand ourselves. She showed videos about people who've use social media in creative ways to promote their skills. We were encourage to use Linkedin and also keep a blog. Many points I found very useful and plan on implementing so I can be successful in the future.