Atlas Mining Website

This is the assessment that followed the corporate identity brief. For this brief we had to design a website layout for Atlas Mining, which needed to reflect environmental awareness.

 

Atlas Mining Corporate Identity

This brief was to develop a corporate identity for a fictional mining company called Atlas Mining. 

It included designing a logo, business card, letterhead, envelope and some form of direct mail. My direct mail piece was a 5 month calendar that would be folded into a cube. I've included the front and one month from the cube calendar as the design is the same for each month.

Typographer Magazine Layout

This was one of my first assessments completed at the start of last trimester for my typography unit. 

The brief was to write a 2000 word report on a typographer, which was then to be designed and laid out in Indesign. The design of the layout needed to reflect the style of the typographer we had chosen. 

I chose the German typographer Erik Spiekermann to complete my report on.

Rolling With It

Lately I have developed a strange obsessions with roller skates. 

It all started when I watched 'Whip It' for the first time a couple of weeks ago. The girls in it looked so cool rolling around on their skates it made me immediately want a pair. 

I was always a roller blades kid myself, so I feel I was deprived as a child never having my own pair of skates.  I'm secretly hoping that my boyfriend will buy me a pair for my birthday in a couple of months. Finger crossed! 

In the mean time I'll just have to satisfy my obsession by trawling through the cools pics of retro skates I've found online. Check out the crazy cowgirl boot ones!

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A Solid Base

While I was doing research for an Illustration report I stumbled across some old illustrations that really took me back in time. The artist is none other than Graeme Base the illustrator and author of the hugely popular children's book, Animalia. 

No doubt many of you have owned or read Animalia at some stage. I fondly remember owning that particular title as well as several other Graeme Base picture books. Base has an amazing eye for detail and his illustrations are one of a kind. I especially love how he manages to hide animal faces and bodies in the line work of his illustrations, very clever.

Here are some of my favourites below. If you haven't already had a look at his work I suggest you check it out at www.graemebase.com 

Photoshop Collage

The brief for this artwork was to create a collage of your choice using Photoshop. My lecturer recommended to choose something that is personal to you, so my collage is based on my relationship with my partner Scott. I used vector images and photos to collage the inside of our bodies to represent our personalities. 

Illustrator Poster

This is a poster I designed in Illustrator. The brief was to redesign some form of technology, then to create a poster using only Illustrator to advertise your new design. I redesigned my faithful sewing machine.

Cultural Magazine Layout

Here is my layout for a fictional Cultural Magazine. We had free reign over this assessment, with very few guidelines to stick too.
 

 

My Empty Studio

It was only a matter of time before I jumped on the blog writing bandwagon.

This blog will be an empty studio to fill with all the things that inspire and delight me, as well as serving as a place to house my design work. 

It will include all the things I am passionate about in life. Fashion, Design, Art and Music.

I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I will enjoying creating it.

JB xx