Relief Revival: Project 3

Project 3 was a reduction or suicide print. I carved an image on a woodblock and printed a single layer of color. After printing my single color background, I carved out the "sky" part of my image, leaving the mountains and the barn. On top of the blue I printed red, to make the mountains a purplish color. Next, I carved out the mountains, leaving only the barn in the foreground to be printed a darker tone of red. Last I carved out everything but what was to be the grass in the very foreground. As you can see, not much is left of my beautifully carved woodblock, but the print makes up for that.

Relief Revival: Project 2

Project 2 was a multiple block print using four colors. I printed two types of prints, one set with my key plate (flowers) underneath the buddha and one where the key plate is laid on top. The last two images are the final prints, the first with the key plate on top, the second, underneath.

Relief Revival: Project 1

The first project was a simple patterned image printed in black on white paper. In the second image, I experimented with printing the block, and then flipping it 180 degrees and printing again.

Magazine Spreads

Using an article related to the icon set in the Visual Communication class, the last project of Typography 2 was the designing of three magazine spreads. The third spread incorporates the information graphic designed in VC. The title of the article is also the title of the icon set. 

Weather Inspired Typography

The basis for the first project of Typography 2 was to express various weather phenomena using... you guessed it... type. 

  

Images From New Mexico

Semester Synopsis

The spring semester of the Visual Communication class began with a subject matter that would serve as the basis for all semester projects. A series of mind maps and research brought me to my final subject matter: organic raw materials, also known as Raw Renewables.