Black Girls Rock!

I designed this poster for our controversial issues poster project. With issues like aids, gay rights, and racism on our list of topics, I decided to choose an issue of my own that is still very prominent in our time - self hate. I see a lot of documentaries on young girls who will do whatever it takes to look like the girl in the magazine because they hate who they are or how they look. I wanted to send out a message that sometimes that look could be impossible to achieve but if you have confidence in yourself, your inner beauty will shine through. Black Girls Rock Inc. is a real company and they did a special on BET so I just imagined myself making a poster for their cause. 

Vintage Movie Poster

For our history project, we had to design a publication piece from any decade in the past. I decided to recreate a movie poster from the 1940's called "Blues for a Alabama Sky". This was a book and a play but I wanted to turn it into a movie as well. I actually saw this play on campus and really enjoyed it. This poster is reminiscent of the time period because of the minimalistic color palette and vintage typefaces.

Vintage Fruit Crate Label

For this project, I had to design a fruit crate label from the 30's or 40's of a Mississippi fruit of my choosing. I created the company and brand. I also chose Carmen Miranda to help me advertise the blueberries because during that time she was famous for her fruity head dresses so I thought it would be fun to put my own spin on her look.

Textbook Design

For this project, we had to design a book cover for an art class that we've taken and use one of our pieces from that class to illustrate the cover. I really enjoyed making screen prints also know as seriography so I decided to make my book about that. I also found a way to implement my logo into the design.

Client Logo Samples

This was the first logo  presented to the client for her interior design company. She informed me that she only wanted her initials in a fancy font, no images, and brighter colors.

This is what I created from that request. She chose the pink one. :)

Fashion Collage!

I made this collage from an image I found online. I photoshop'd  all of the african american models into the piece as well as a picture of myself, the nail polish, and my name. I just did this for funsies. I'm currently using this image as the desktop wallpaper on my Mac. :)

Let's Talk!

    

                                                              

This is a series of posters I designed for the Let's Talk program on campus. This was apart of our client project in Graphic Design 2. I presented all three to the staff and they chose the first one to be displayed on campus, =)