Darwin Book Re-design

With the term just about to finished up, I have more time to post work I did over the course of the fall. This is another project from my graphic design class. The assignment was to redesign a classic book for a modern edition re-publishing. I re-designed Darwin’s ‘The Origin of Species’.  The image seen through the birds and on the spin is a map of the Galapagos Islands where Darwin did much of his research (and I chose to use images of birds since Darwin’s early research centered around Finches).

A Term of Sculpture

I just had my final intro to sculpture critique yesterday. Although I’m not really sure if its my medium, I really enjoyed the class and working on all the projects. We worked with plaster, metal, and wood (I did very little in metal since I really fell in love with wood working). What I found most surprising was how much time it took to do the simplest things. I did a lot of work with boxes; just cutting and gluing them together took most of my time. Anyway, here’s my three projects I did over the course of the term:

Project 1. Assignment: pick an object (I picked my boyfriend’s wisdom teeth he had removed and has kept in his car– in a baggie, but still gross– since he had them removed a few years ago). Create small models exploring the physical features of the object. Then create a large sculpture in plaster exploring one of these models.

Project 2. Assignment: Using at least two different materials, depict a gerund through sculpture. My gerund was ‘feeding’. I worked in wood and plaster.

Project 3. Assignment: Pick a architectural element– this was very loosely defined as anything man-made–and examine connections within or outside of this object. I chose an umbrella but my project strayed far from my original conception. Just to give you an idea of proportion the box was roughly 2′x2′x2′.

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Chalk Graffiti

While we were working on the typography unit in graphic design, we were assigned to graffiti the campus (with chalk, of course). We all agreed to use the word ‘type’ somehow in our designs. I think everyone’s turned out really well. One group decorated Sayles, the campus center, with different types of students and another group played with the phrase ‘blood type’ outside the wellness center.

My phrase reads “You won’t make typos if you draw.” I drew it where the path divides between the CMC (center for mathematics and computing) and Boliou (the art building). I spent a while printing and cutting out the stencils for the main part of the sentence and then just free-handed ‘draw.’