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Tea Company Brand + Packaging

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Brand + Packaging Design

Students develop a concept for a tea company and create a brand identity starting with the logo. Students explore developing graphics on the tea box packaging considering the brand identity and also the various tea flavors. Students develop a color palette and brand board in the beginning of the project. They can use a standard die, or modify it to make it unique.

Student Work: Benedictine College

Student Work: Roberts Wesleyan

Brand Boards

 

Design Foundations – Children’s Book Project

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Below are examples of Children Book Projects by students. Many of these students were not art majors. The project required them to use Adobe CC: In-Design, Photoshop, Illustrator and/or Procreate to write, design and execute a children’s book. Most students illustrated their books in Adobe Illustrator and assembled them in Adobe InDesign. Students learned book construction and layout design and how to prepare files for commercial printing. The books were professionally through MagCloud.

Student Work: Roberts Wesleyan College 2017

Student Work: Fall 2020 Benedictine College

2D Foundations

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2D Design Foundations

Point, Line, Form, Value, Tone, Color

This is a collection of student work from my 2D Foundations class. Students explore the principles of design through a variety of exercises that enable them to explore concepts, execute designs and practice craftsmanship to begin a strong foundation for core concentrations.

Color Studies

12″ x 12″ on Canvas. Student created a square module design, then created a repeated pattern on the square canvas to demonstrate and execute color mixing and specific palettes. All colors were derived from red, yellow and blue + black and white.

 

Final Project Value Portraits by Students

Student had to choose 6 values and a shape to create their portraits in grayscale. The size of each final artwork is 18″x24″

Collaborative Alphabet

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These collaborative alphabets were created in my typography class.
Students created 2D Animated letterforms in Adobe Animate,
Students work in teams to pick a font and color scheme.
They vote on the font and scheme.
Students are assigned either a letter, a number or a glyph.
The class size determines the number of characters each student needs to animate.

All of the individual animations are composited in Adobe AfterEffects and set to music.

Enjoy!

Fall 2023

 

Fall 2022

Spring 2021

 

 

 

Teaching

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Courses Taught

Roberts Wesleyan College

Undergraduate

Foundations 2D Design
Foundations Digital Media Art
Time Motion Communication
Graphic Design 1: Fundamentals
Graphic Design 2: Branding + Packaging
Graphic Design 3: Publications Design
Advanced Typography
Interactive Design
Web Design 1

Rochester Institute of Technology

Undergraduate

Elements of Graphic Design

Graduate

Authoring Multimedia
Production Pipeline

Summer Camp & Community Art

Roberts Summer Academy

2D Animation – Flipbooks

Mendon Academy of Arts & Movement

Extreme Bedroom Makeover
Collaborative Community Art: The Dream Kite