College. Work. I've said it before and I'll say it again, both of these leave absolutely no time for freelance. Which kind of saddens me, but at least I know that my time is being spent on things that will help me be a BETTER freelancer, or graphic designer should I choose to be one at a later stage ;) 


So I thought I'd post some of my college work, because although it's not FREELANCE work, it is indeed relevant to my business and becoming the best artist I can be. 


The first of my work is a theatre poster design I did. This was a collaborative project with the students in the photography class. Their part was to take a picture using their photoshop/photography skills of the mask we both created to represent a modern take on "Frankenstein". My partner Rachel and I, opted to base our modern day Frankenstein on high school shootings, and consequently the perpetrator committing suicide. The connection back to frankenstein was the loneliness, the brutality of human kind towards them and the outcast treatment they were subject to. As the graphic design student, I had to create the "Frankenstein" logotype, as well as the (fake) Twelfth Night Theatre logotype, and then work on poster design layout. 


We were pretty happy with the end result.

The second submission item we had to do recently was a t-shirt design based on cuban design theory - using block colours, no tones or tints, and very rounded "rough" edges. Most cuban art is done via screen print which doesn't allow for intricate detail or small shapes. The topic we had to create the shirt around was Climate Change. I've always liked t-shirts that poke fun at political issues in a controversial manner, so I decided to create a shirt that read "SAY YES TO ICE" and base it off global warming and the melting of polar ice caps 


My shirt is below :)

The THIRD submission, I finished today. It's a type specimen based on Gill Sans, a font created by Eric Gill. Our number 1 objective was to find something interesting about either the font or the creator of the font and create a picture USING the font, based off our idea. 


Sounds confusing. But I'll break it down. Eric Gill was very catholic, but was also very sexually driven. These two are quite polar opposites, especially when we find out Eric Gill was not only incestuous but also had intercourse with his dog..... yes, I'm serious. Quite the mad man, but still quite successful. I was originally thinking of doing my picture of a dog (comedic value) but I thought it would be more interesting to show the contrast of the catholic/sexual promiscuity sides. So I decided to create a picture of some rosary beads, but instead of using jesus as the figure on the cross, a woman. And again, we were only allowed to use type. No shapes, no adjusting of any of the letter forms. For an example, I used a capital D in Gill Sans font for the majority of the woman's body. Her hair is made of S's. And this is how it turned out: