Locating Place - Book

This project was trying to teach us how to take a project from the start to the end and in the process getting submerged in the content (or in this case culture) that is part of the project. The project had us head into a specific section of East Austin and do our best to capture pictures of the area that fit certain guidelines. From there, we were to create a visual piece in the form of a video that could be either interactive (flash) or not, and choose a theme to help represent East Austin through your eyes.

This part of the project was creating a book with the same content and pictures used in the movie. I tried to show the "peeling away" of layers and stereotypes to reveal the true nature of a place or building and in the process show that it is impossible to break down a scene to be the same across every audience.

The book can be flipped through here. Keep in mind the blue squares are showing through to pictures below them.

This book was created in InDesign and Illustrator. I also hand crafted the perfect bind as well as cut out the vellum and paper in the correct places. The paper had a light texture to it to give the paper a better look and feel.

Overall I am very happy with this project. It clarifies that if I ever do book work I will not want to be the one to assemble it. I'd like to consider myself the visionary in these situations.

Concept Map

This project's goal was not only to research a given topic extremely thoroughly, but also find a way to display the  information without any graphics in a clear, concise manner.

At first I found this project extremely difficult -- as I tend to try and explain information with simple graphics and without words. However as I chose a theme and stuck to it, the project began to grow on me and I am extremely pleased with the end result. I created the entire document in Adobe Illustrator CS5.

Locating Place - Movie

This project was trying to teach us how to take a project from the start to the end and in the process getting submerged in the content (or in this case culture) that is part of the project. The project had us head into a specific section of East Austin and do our best to capture pictures of the area that fit certain guidelines. From there, we were to create a visual piece in the form of a video that could be either interactive (flash) or not, and choose a theme to help represent East Austin through your eyes.

I created a video that used a "home video" feel to take users through East Austin through their own eyes, however the goal was to show the difference in perception from one person to another; what one person see may be a "slum" or a "restaurant" while another may see it as "the local hang out spot" or "home".

I am extremely happy with this project and I believe the amount of work put in shows. This project opened my interest to doing videos like epipheo in the future, and when I have free time I tend to create videos just to play with AfterEffects and spice up my skills.

This was created using AfterEffects CS5.

Found Type

We did not do a found type exercise for this class

Activity Booklet

This project was teaching us what it would be like to design for a conference with very specific requirements. For example: only 2 colors could be used, and the copy was already given. We had to find a way to organize the copy as well as the photographs and do it all in a way that would be cheap and easy to assemble for the volunteers.

The speakers side of the brochure can be found here and the sessions side of the brochure can be found here. 

I learned a lot about print media and how spot colors work from this project. I was overall very happy with the end result, and wish I still had a physical copy to hold on to.