Amanda and I have gone on several adventures this summer; most of them include picking (but really just eating right off the tree) an abundance of fruit. Here are some photos I’ve taken while journeying around good old connecticut!
All these photos were taken with a Canon AE-1 | 400 film
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My final project for my second semester Graphic Design II class was to collect around ten objects that relate to each other in some way, photograph them, and design a catalog for them. Sounds easy enough, right? Wrong. This was yet another project that I stared at a computer screen for, not sure how to put everything together.
The objects I chose all connected to a family member on either side of my family tree. On my dads side, I represented my Great Great Grandmother, Great grandmother, Great grandfather, grandmother, grandfather, and my dad, and on my mom side i found objects for my mother, grandmother, grandfather, and two great grandmothers. Most of the items i photographed were antiques that were owned by that family member, while a couple others were just little objects that remind me of special times with those family members.
The photographing was easy. We needed to photograph each object in some conceptual location that may seem out of the ordinary for the objects. Easy enough; & with my instant-awesome 50mm lense, the photos came out quite nice. The hard part was laying out the photos into a catalog-esque design as well as writing about each object. I had no idea what to do for either of these parts, and day after day I would just sit at the computer frustrated, just plopping photo’s and words in this way or that. After stressing over trying to find a unique and creative concept to wow everyone with, I gave up. I gave up, and gave in, and literally decided to just let the words and images find their own way onto the page. And WHALAA; my catalog was born.
A crisp, clean layout that presented the photographs as the main focus, with a small caption of the item, who it represents & a date it relates to on it. The catalog begins with my great great grandmother on my dads side, goes through my dad, with me as the center page & a small family tree, and then goes through my mom’s side starting with her and ending with my great grandmother Jockel.
By letting go and not worrying about the end result & designing something great, I was able to create a beautiful catalog that makes me, the designer happy, and truly represents all the wonderful memories my family holds. It was a wonderful project that believe it or not, got me just a little bit closer & prouder of my family.
Art Direction, Photography & Design all by Hope Reagan
Graphic Design II; Spring 2009
class: Computer Typography; Spring 2010
Objective: AIG is having a friday night movie night three fridays in a row featuring documentaries about certain artists and their work. Create four different posters that can be printed over each other when its time to display the new information, but they important old information still needs to be active.You also need to be able to see the sequence of the four posters throughout the design, and the reader must be able to understand what is the new information.
Solution: Veils of color highlight new information and block out the old, creating a curtained sequence of four posters. Shape, negative space, and color all coordinate to reveal the new information from the old throughout the sequence.
Spring 2010
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The main focus of my second semester’s Advance Computer Apps course was to create a complete branding for an outrageous conceptual amusement park. Pretty much our entire semester was spent developing our park.
Objective: Create a conceptual theme park, the more outrageous, and impossible the idea, the better. From there, develop a logo, brochure with a map, park pass/tickets, gift bags, name tags and another extra product of your choice. Alongside this, develop a concept for a hotel as well as restaurant for your park. Design a logo for both, as well as a giveaway promotional item for your restuarant.
Solution: Far Out Amusements; a theme park dedicated to the love of the sixties. Complete with Woodstock Memorial Theater, an outdoor amphitheater, The Word Cafe & Lounge, and A Hard Days Night bed and breakfast. The design is inspired by the organic curves and bold shapes of psychedelic and pop art, with a modern color palette.
spring 2010
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Crossing paths was my official first “book/packet” design as a graphic designer, for my Introductions to Computer Applications this past fall semester.
Assignment: take the given “Vital Information for Graphic Designers” (from a Mohawk Paper pamphlet) and develop a booklet, with any concept behind it, to display the useful information.
Solution: Crossing paths is a booklet designed to accompany you on your journey as a graphic designer. With a clean, simple and consistant design, accompanied by soft watercolored illustrations, Crossing Paths is a lighter, easy on the eyes approach to a shortcut guide to graphic design.
*november 2009
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Lately i’ve been really into 35mm as my first choice for documenting my summer so far. I have a Canon AE-1, and I LOVE it. Right now film just seems to be capturing the right character and mood that I’m looking for. Here are just a few shots that I’ve taken so far this summer; really loving them!
Let me know what you think! And if you have any tips on using a 35mm, specifically the canon, let me know! I’m definitely looking to improve the color quality of my photos sooc (straigh out of camera).
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This poster was my last project that I had to do for my computer typography class. The assignment was simply; take photos of different typography around your neighborhood, and create either a poster or a book about them. You could do anything you wanted, as long as it had the name of neighborhood on it, as well as “by jane doe” on it.
For me, my neighborhood was the few blocks around me in the middle of Central Square, Cambridge. I took some photos, and for a while had no clue what to do with them. I wanted to show the different faces of central square; the dirty, grungy, and stinky, as well as the beautiful, indie and upbeat. It took me only a few hours to come up with this poster design, but i am relatively happy with how it came out. I think it is a simple, clean layout the reflects central square in the positive way that I would like to remember it. Seeing as I won’t be living there next year, I like having this poster as a reminder of where I spent a year of my life.
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