African Advocacy Campaign

Poster

T-Shirt

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For this assignment I had to choose a campaign where the charity is directly in Africa and has a compelling call to action. Breadline Africa has a fascinating campaign where it transforms storage containers into much-needed buildings. They have cans4hygiene (washrooms with sinks), cans4learning (schools) and cans4feeding (community soup kitchens).

If I have the time and opportunity, I'd like to finish the rest of the set, but for learning and feeding, each with a variation on the colour. The focus on my design is that a container can become anything, and it's up to us to personalize it. I made sure to use the colours, textures, and patterns that were found on the website to adhere to their branding. It was also fun to manually draw the title (Illustrator's width tool is pretty amazing! Thanks to Greg Treadwell for the lesson!)

Robbie Burns Poster

An event poster I did for an Illustrator project done in greyscale and 3 colour variations.  I decided to change up the typical Burns poster, and based the design on the cover of one of his books.

Shakespeare's Interactive Circus Poster

Semester 2 at Algonquin! This was a proposal I did for Shakespeare's Interactive Circus, by A Company of Fools. Basically they specialize in  doing parodies of Shakespeare's plays, and in this particular one, I chose to depict it as a giant Shakespeare stew—since that's basically what it is! I also added a clown nose and a jester's hat on Yorick, because (1)  Yorick was a court jester, and (2) the logo for A Company of Fools is Shakespeare with a jester's hat, and they oftentimes perform with red noses as part of their costume. It didn't get chosen for the official poster, but I'm pleased to say I came in second.

Shuriken Boy Poster

A poster on the typeface, Shuriken Boy.

Thanks to my teacher, Andrea Emery’s direction, I was given the idea to have a shuriken slice through the title, thus illustrating the action of the weapon. The triangular slice is doubly appropriate since the whole point of the font is to create text, using shapes to cut through shapes.

These Eyes Poster

I had to pick a song out of the metaphorical hat featuring the top 100 Canadian songs. I chose These Eyes by The Guess Who. The essence of the song is of a man tormented by the departure of his wife, and he longs for her to return to him.

In order to capture the song, I focused on two verses:

1. The hurtin's on me, yeah

   And I will never be free no, my baby, no no

   You gave a promise to me, yeah
   An’ you broke it, an‘ you broke it, oh no
2. These eyes are cryin'

   These eyes have seen a lot of loves
   But they’re never gonna see 
another one like I had with you

Symbolism:

In both of these verses, the man sings that his love has been broken and that it has left him. I chose to symbolize this by depicting a broken heart flipped upside-down, which has become the tears that he cries.  

A broken heart is symbolic in two ways. First there is the obvious meaning that he is brokenhearted. Second is that their marriage (where two people become one), has been broken; so everything that marriage represents—one heart, one love, one life shared together—has been ripped in two and is left incomplete.  

Similarly, the fact that the heart has been turned into tears has two meanings. First, there is the clear reference to him crying. Second, by having the heart turn into tears, the tears will inevitably fall, and thus the tears (and his love) will leave him.

The blindfold references the second verse, where his eyes will never see another love like the one he had with his wife. The fact that the blindfold is a superficial handicap (as opposed to actual blindness) shows that he no longer wants to see love.  But since a blindfold can be removed, it leaves him open to loving again—that is, if his wife returns to him.

His striped clothes are prison garb, which references the first verse where he will never be free. Therefore, along with the blindfold, for the duration of his sentence—as long as she does not return to him—he will be rendered bound and handicapped.

Art History Package

CD Package Exercise

Dance Poster