This unit was about telling stories through different mediums. Through my projects, I learned to create fictional stories through worldbuilding, convey brand messaging, and tell personal stories through art.
Design Productions
Our second Narrative unit in Design focused a lot on commercial art. We learned about incorporating marketing strategies into our designs. We also created art that connected with ourselves.
Cursive Name
For this project we had to write our names in elaborate cursive and reflect it across the canvas. We did this using Adobe Photoshop. I tried to give mine a fairytale/fantasy theme.
We then printed our names and painted them with watercolor. I chose a pink, purple, and teal color scheme for my watercolors. I hadn’t used watercolor before this project, so I struggled a bit at first! After I (kind of) got the hang of it, I had fun making gradients with different colors!
Burrow Bakes
In design, we had to come up with a product and design a brand around it. We did this by creating a logo, packaging label, magazine advertisement, and product mockups. I created designs for Burrow Bakes, a fictional soft-baked cookie brand I came up with.
Label and Logo
I designed this product label for Burrow Bakes’ chocolate strawberry-flavored cookies. I wanted the brand to be attractive to children, so I created a bunny logo that appears gentle but also playful. I designed this label in Adobe Illustrator around the measurements of a mockup cardboard box.
Magazine Ad
In my magazine ad for Burrow Bakes Chocolate Strawberry Cookies, I tried to utilize marketing techniques through my design. I maintained a similar color scheme to the product label and created a slogan. I used Adobe Photoshop to create the graphic of the packaging and chocolate splash, and Adobe Illustrator to make the final advertisement.
Product Triptych
This is a triptych I created of mockups using my product label and logo.
Click to read my artist statement for Burrow Bakes!
Silvarum
My movie poster is designed for Silvarum, a story I worked on in English. In the story, the year is 2248 and Earth has been taken over by giant, mutated plants, some of which are toxic to humans. To create the poster, I used Adobe Photoshop and several stock images.
This is the moodboard I created before starting my movie poster design. I took inspiration from other sci-fi movie posters and looked at pictures of space and eccentric plants. I decided to use a monochromatic blue color scheme.