Communication Design Fundamentals

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My book was inspired by my cat Kudo. At first I wanted to create something similar to the taking care of my plants book that we saw in…

Idea

I was really appreciative of how much creative liberty we had on this project. That being said, it was really hard to think of a topic that…

Idea 1

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Task: Explore visual and verbal interaction by creating a visual book

For this project, I was not sure whether I wanted to make an art book or to illustrate a story. Making an art book would focus more on…

Originally, I had three ideas for my visual book: cocktail recipes, Pittsburgh history, and a children’s story. I chose the story book…

Initial Idea and Inspiration

My book began with the idea of highlighting fabrics we wear everyday. I wanted to dig a little deeper into why they are popular for…

For my Communication Design Fundamentals class, we were given the assignment of writing and laying out a book of our choice. For this…

Task: Create a series of three posters that visually introduce three different arts events, which are part of a single arts festival.

Research

My initial idea for an event to design posters for was CMU’s Spring Carnival. I took the events from…

Festival: Documenting Today

For my poster series, I chose to tribute the boy bands of my middle school days. I began by doing a bit of background research on each band…