CD Booklet The Hunger-The Transformation

This is a cd booklet for class. The assignment was to create a transformation somehow with the images. I really like butterflies and I wanted to just do a stylized metamorphosis of a butterfly at first, but my teacher thought it would be too predictable...no "twist". He thought I should challenge myself more, so I decided to keep the butterfly idea, but combine it with the destruction of a building. The top images read from right to left, then the bottom row reads left to right.
I'm thinking the color palette needs to be tuned down in the later panels. I like the subtle colors in the first two panels. Also, the type is too big. : /
Anyway, hope you enjoy!  :)

Candy Apple Packaging

 

 This is some candy apple packaging design I did for a fictitious company "Fairground's Carousel". The carousel horse motif can be seen on the other 2 sides that aren't visible in the picture. The top of the box is pretty difficult to put together, and it was a little harder with the stick of the candy apple poking out. 

 By the way, I don't recommend the candy apples from the Rocky Mountain Chocolate factory. I love candy apples and I didn't even eat half of it (Their chocolate apples are great though). Save yourself three dollars and get them at the supermarket.

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Omni Magazine cover

This is a cover to OMNI Magazine for my Digital Image Design class. We were to utilize Photoshop to create a cyborg out of any chosen model. We also used PS to create a background and to stylize the OMNI logo. For the assignment, we were to depict a negative view on cyborgs in the future, so my goal was to portray a cyborg geisha looking distraught. I used myself as the model and used all Photoshop to achieve this effect. 

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Buffet-Hungry

This is a poster I designed for a fictitious band that we also had to design a website for. Members of the class were given pieces of paper and told to write nouns, adjectives, and verbs. We collected them into a box and randomly picked one noun and one adjective/verb; this became your band's name. Afterward, you were to decide the genre of music your band would play and all of the web page's content. 

I picked polka and was having a very hard time designing a site for it because all the polka websites that I visited didn't really have a certain style. After hours of sitting there with a creative block, I decided to create a poster to get my mind off the actual website. After I made this, I knew I had to design the entire site to match this. Thank you, poster.

Here is the site: http://www.csupomona.edu/~tiffanyt/introband.html

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Typography Bird

This is my favorite spread from the book I made for typography class. The bird is made entirely of capital and lower-cased B's, I's, R's, and D's. The typeface utilized was Goudy Old Style italicized. The branches it rests on read "Stray birds of summer come to my window to sing and fly away". It is the first line to a poem by Rabindranath Tagore entitled Stray Birds.

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Le Papier stationery set

This was a stationery set design for a fictitious paper company "Le Papier". We were assigned to design a logo, stationery, envelope, and a business card.

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Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly

 

This is an introduction spread I did for my Digital Image Design Class. We were given the headline "Social Media: The Good, The Bad, The Ugly" so I decided to depict the ugly side of this rapidly evolving revolution, focusing in on the site that takes up most of my time: Facebook. I wanted my models to pop out of their picture windows because to some internet users, effects of social media become more than just words on a screen and can start manifesting in the real world, whether they be positive or negative.

Models are my good friends from school, Gilbert (left) and Gus (right).
Pictures of them were taken with an iPhone 4 camera!

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