Poster Designs

After learning to use Adobe Illustrator, I was able to design a multitude of new things, including posters. I used my new skills to make posters for multiple people and purposes.

1: This poster was made for Freestyle Academy, for the End-of-Year Exhibition.

2: I made this poster for Mark Hollingstead, for a class he teaches at his Buddhist temple.

Wooden Scrap Peacock

In our Digital Media Classroom, we have a laser cutter that mr. florendo uses for all sorts of projects. And not just student projects either. Mr. Florendo has many different wooden decorations, ranging from mandala like patterns to stylized animals to homages to stars wars. The common denominator between all of these projects is that they are made from sheets of wood. When they are laser cut, Mr. Florendo saves the excess scraps of wood and puts them in a box by the door in hopes that student would be a bale to find a use for them. They sat there for more than a semester before I decided that I was going to make something with them. I took wood scraps home in my backpack over the course of about two weeks, much to my mother’s chagrin. Little did she know.

Mother’s day was coming up soon, and I needed to make her a present. She is very difficult to buy presents for (mainly because she just buys herself anything she needs during the rest of he year, she is an adult after all). However, she has always appreciated handmade gifts and cards. I wanted to use the wood scraps to make something she might like enough to decorate our house with. She is a big fan of interior design, we have over 20 fake plants and quite a few random art pieces in our house.Our house has a few wood elements inside, so I thought the wood scraps would match with the interior.

My mom’s second favorite animal is a peacock (her first is a giraffe but those guys are too tall for this project), so I decided to try and arrange the wood scraps into a peacock shape and then glue them together so it could hagn on the wall. with some help from my dad, I got wood glue, and spent an afternoon gluing the peacock together. Then I let it, dry, and it was done! At least I thought so… I showed it my mom, and she really like! she even agreed to hagn it somewhere in the house if I stained it, which was more than I was expecting. I am glad she was happy with it.

Here is my wooden scrap peacock before being stained

I have not stained it yet, but if I do, I will update this page.

To any Freestyle students reading this, I would encourage you to try making something with the wooden scraps Mr. Florendo leaves out. They are free, and I bet you could make some pretty cool stuff with them.

Freestyle Yearbook

This project is currently a work in the making. I have committed to collaborating with Kaylee Jampayai and Nadeen Sheridan on making a Freestyle Yearbook next year. We have some ideas already, like making it have and ocean or under-the-sea theme, and following the art style of the animated movie “Song of the Sea”, which you can see below.

I wanted to include this post here because I want to encourage freestyle students to join groups that help plan freestyle events. My peers and I will become seniors next year, which means that we need to take the initiative in organizing events like dances if we want to have a freestyle prom as awesome as the one the seniors put on this year (2024).