process doc 2

a document of research on the animals i drew (whales, turtles, penguins)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1UIqV4wjfoTuHNpl7xQdHsTYxZK8lny9-wbv5uwfRQ_k/edit

manifesto

1. don't be afraid of change
2. use fonts that communicate meaning
3. the process, not the product
4. design for the audience you want to see it
5. don't use too many colors at once

senior show, installations

May Funda

Adrift — Book series
My work is about depicting animals in their natural habitats and evoking feelings of being surrounded by them, as if the viewer is in the image as well. The reason I chose to focus on aquatic animals is because they always seemed mysterious to me. They’re beautiful and complicated, and the ocean they live in is so unexplored. The majority of organisms alive currently live under the ocean, and most of the ocean is unexplored. I wanted to use colors that helped convey the peaceful feeling of each image, and the text in each image is supposed to complement the visuals. I used text taken from spreads in my final book that I printed last semester, to keep some continuity, and I repurposed them to fit the images I’ve added or changed for this book. My goal is to be experimental with the placement of text, using colors and font styles that complement the rhythm of the images from one page to the next.

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Nate Cioffi

Broken Amend/ments
This project explores the degradation of meaning through repetition and reinterpretation over time. Each of these works represents a multi-poster series. The process starts by formally typesetting each constitutional amendment. After this, the font size is systematically increased with each poster causing the language to become distorted.
This is symbolic of the repeated reinterpretation of the laws over the decades, distorting original intents, and covering up racial injustices that are written into those laws. This project raises the question, is it time to rewrite the oldest constitution?

Frustration & Isolation
These works have come out of my own reflections on feelings of anger, frustration, and isolation in 2020.

YOU ARE HERE!
This project explores the idea that we are all together in our shared feelings of loneliness, frustration, and isolation during this unforgettable year.

January 20, 2017 - January 20, 2021
This poster is inspired by the 45th presidential term’s approach to tradition and prerequisite.

Screaming for 60 Seconds
This book and poster combo look to encapsulate the feeling of a good scream.

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Paige Dempster, Nihilist Dogs

Nihilist Dogs There must be a meaning to life, but I have no clue what it is or what it even could be. I was filled with this existential dread about halfway through the semester, making it difficult to take care of myself beyond basic survival, let alone produce any sort of meaningful work. I have a bad habit of letting my emotions bleed into my art, as well as the lifelong artsy quirk of doodling in the margins of my notebook, so I put the two together and began drawing these strange looking dogs and combining them with garish handwritten text expressing a nihilist world view, then I finally cut the images up into small books. The liveliness of the dogs combined with the animated yet existential text create a stark contrast that make them hard to ignore, and the books cut the image up to make them hard to understand, but able to vaguely piece together if meditated on for long enough, just like life. I knew from the beginning that I wanted these to be small books so people could take a little bit of this sentiment with them, so I included a fully pieced together image as a sticker to encourage people
 

slideshow video

I made a draft of my slideshow video, which is uploaded to my google drive folder at

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mWcZkvuv9w9fyx0gDizpPw1oehykxvKJ

process doc update again

process doc update (pdf, at google drive)
 

process doc update

I'm working on the process doc, and I have most of the pictures I'm going to use for it. But I don't know what to write... also, it's shorter than the last semester's one. I used fewer images in the books I'm making for the show, than I did in last semester's process work. For example, since I'm not using images of the birds, snakes, bears, etc. from last year I figured it wouldn't make sense to include them in the process book for this semester. But I don't know what to include in terms of text... I don't know how to explain my process work more than it was explained last semester. i think some feedback would help :)

 

books 1-3

updated books 1-3 at google drive

the reason some pages at the back are blank are because the book will have a page at the back that connects to the back cover. like last semester's book. it will be set up the same way. and the white page in the front is the inside cover. 

 also, covers:

 

 

 

process doc

working on process doc, just getting all the images together and figuring out layout... early stage..

 

edits to finished books, working on third one

finished formatting the whale and turtle books so they'd be ready to upload to Lulu for printing. I think I'm almost done with them, but might need someone to look it over. working on the penguin book- filling the pages with different compositions of penguin pics

thought of a title: maybe "adrift"? or "underwater dreams"

I didn't post any pictures of the first two books content because I posted them before, they're basically done

will post more pics of penguins later this week

 

 

more penguin pictures

 

penguins

 

pdfs, proposal

whales updated (pdf)

turtles updated (pdf)

proposal update 10/28

My project is about depicting animals in their natural habitats and evoking feelings of being surrounded by them, as if the viewer is in the image as well. The reason I chose to focus on aquatic animals, at least so far, is because they always seemed mysterious to me. They’re beautiful and complicated, and the ocean they live in is so unexplored. The majority of organisms alive currently live under the ocean, and most of the ocean is unexplored.

I wanted to use colors that helped convey the peaceful feeling of each image, and the text in each image is supposed to complement the visuals. I used text taken from spreads in my final book that I printed last semester, to keep some continuity, and I repurposed them to fit the images I’ve added or changed for this book. I’m trying to be experimental with the placement of text, using colors and font styles that complement the rhythm of the images from one page to the next.

I decided that the more scientific or observational text passages would be separate from the more poetic text, and I positioned the scientific text in places that it wouldn’t take over the image. The poetic text is bigger and shapes itself around each image, flowing together more easily and being seen as two parts of one whole. The color scheme in each book depends on the mood of the images inside it; I wanted to create a sense of flowing through the pages, like they fit together. The books I’ve finished so far are supposed to be viewed in context with each other, like a series. I’m currently working on two or three books total, that will hopefully expand on the ones that came before them.

turtles