Designs
Student Art Show 2015 - CB-VRSB This is a poster designed for the 2015 student art show for the Cape Breton Victoria Regional School Board. It was chosen from a number of posters submitted from NSVS art and video students. The poster was designed in Adobe Illustrator. This was my first major project using Illustrator. I was inspired by the art show's theme "Open Hearts, Open Doors, Open Minds". I decided to create a series of doors similar to those in the movie Monster's Inc. The bottom two doors are opened and I added graphics bursting from the doors which served as text boxes. The fiddlehead like images were taken from All-Free Downloads where digital artists can get free vector graphics. I significantly altered the design and simplified the shapes which took a lot of time. I also changed the colors and gradience. The placement and choice of font was also time consuming, a number of designs were created until I was happy with the final composition. A larger version of the poster can been seen here. |
RHS Safe Grad 2015 T-shirt Design
This is a poster design I was asked to do for RHS Safe Grad 2015. I am a graduate from the 2015 class so it was an honor to be able to create a design for safe grad. I drew the logo by hand then I scanned it in. I traced the logo in Illustrator and used font from the computer not hand drawn font for it has a more professional appearance. |
Contest Name the Park
The name "Phoenix Park" and logo I designed for the Name the Park contest hosted by the Tarponds Agency. The park is located at the former Sydney Steel Plant site. My name was selected as one of the semi-finalists. Below is the write-up I submitted with the design. Phoenix Park is the name I have chosen for the park because I wanted the name of the park to symbolize rebirth, a new life. The phoenix is a bird that came from Greek mythology and has come to represent renewal. In legends the phoenix lived a long life and was cyclically reborn. The new bird would rise out of the ashes of its predecessor. I find this symbol represents the park for new life is given to a site that suffered under industrial toils. A land that was devastated from a century of steel industry is given a new life and rises out of the ashes of the former - a beautiful new park is born. The name also commemorates the history of the steel plant for it represents a new life that is started after an old, but cherished one, has ceased. The Sydney Steel Plant brought people from around the world to the Cape Breton area and was once one of the major steel making facilities in North America. The rebirth/reincarnation pays honor to the century of steel-making and the men and women who worked there. Upon researching the name Phoenix Park I found an interesting fact. In Ireland there is a park named Phoenix Park. The park has a clear water stream running through it. In Irish “spring of clear water” is fionn uisce. An anglicised version of fionn uisce is phoenix. Since Muggah’s Creek and the Tar ponds have been remediated into a clear water stream the Irish/anglicised wording fits the park. The logo I had designed is the mythological bird. I drew the artwork by hand and scanned it. I then altered the design in Photoshop. I made the tail into leaves to represent the reintroduction of nature into a former industrial site. If the park was named Phoenix Park, gates and signs in the park could have a phoenix emblem. Each phoenix had a long life span and with the introduction of a beautiful park into the Sydney area residents will wish the park to have a long life span as well. |