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  • The Beehive Blender Project

    In class last Friday, we received the assignment brief for the final in New Media class. The assignment is called “The Beehive Blender Project.”  The first step was to divide into teams of three, preferably with all the branches of the program represented (publishing arts, photography and graphic design).  Then Marc had every team submit…

  • Texture

    This is the white plastic sheet in the resource room when the daylight is filtered through the blinds and saturation is added to a badly taken digital photograph.

  • Sally the Boxer

    Here’s the full page ad I made for a tee-shirt that was designed by a another team in the class earlier in the quarter. My art director (fellow classmate), I don’t think she liked much of this. I’ll admit that the handwritten text is a little wonky, but I like it. The grey background threw…

  • Kahlo

    I reprised my Kahlo outfit from Halloween for Hoppe’s self portrait project. Mr. Hoppe said to bring a hi-res self portrait to class to work on for the final. I hope he won’t try to make us photoshop ourselves onto rusty household objects for his amusement. Photo Credit to Erik Bear.

  • Tom’s Faces

    The beginning of an assignment. I photoboothed my face, using different expressions. Then pentooled it. Roughly. Assignment: create three self-portrait face illustrations using PhotoBooth. Illustrator 4/c Document size: 17×11, 3 faces. Vary the expressions. Convert the planes of the face into discrete shapes. Use the pen tool. Do not use live trace. Apply a color theme to each…

  • Reality Stands Poster

    Photoshop assignment. Blending being the skill. Theme and copy provided by instructor.

  • Photos at Magnuson Park

    I like the movement in this photograph. Photo Credit: Erik Bear. Erik  and I did a photo shoot today to get some photos for my upcoming Photoshop assignment where the design must incorporate something natural and something man-made. One of the examples showed a man pulling a road as if it was a tarp. I…