Pomme De Pin Wine

The assignment was to bring in a found object, which had to be associated with a location, which was assigned in class.  The found object I brought in was a large pinecone.  The location that was assigned to me in class was the city of Paris.  After doing research on the two, I decided to create wine labels for my invented winery named Pomme De Pin, which translates to Pinecone in French. Pines cones are the fruit of the tree similar to grapes.  I thought that analogy worked well and I did numerous sketches of the wine label.  The label went through numerous looks using dye cuts, embossment, and INTS rubs.  The last version I used the natural unbleached paper with a pen and ink illustration of the pine cone.

The Cartoon Network- The Cartoon Movement Annual Report

Worldview Magazine

Setting out designing this magazine, I wanted to target an audience who were experienced travelers, and wanted something more than a cruise or your weekend trip to Paris.  My target audience was someone who wanted to learn about the culture of a new country, but also understand the politics and currents events that is affecting its citizens.  I decided to use illustration on the cover to help it stand out from the plethora of travel magazines already on the shelf.  The illustrations would be inspired by the native art of that region, from folk to contemporary. The size is fairly small, to make it convenient for travel and fit in any bag. Each issue would have a feature section on one country, city or region but also offer good travel tips, guest writers, and contributors.

Ingrid’s Cupboard

Astrology Artist Book

Astrology is something I have long been fascinated with. A few years ago I have found a pattern in the people who are closest to me where often of a similar or same sign of my own.  This was by accident, but it made me interested in astrology and whether or not it really has any affect on our personality. This book is a French fold accordion book, going through the cycle of the zodiac starting with Aries.  The book on the front celebrates famous women who were born of that sign, with a short description and basic facts. On the back of the book, was my personal zodiac, featuring women who have had a great influence on me personally.  I picked one women from each sign, writing a small description why I appreciate them, how they have influenced me, and why I feel they embody their sign. The cover and pattern on the back of the book is silk screened, mixed with ink jet printed signatures and images. The cover is light balsa-wood, with four different colored papers making up the accordion folds representing each element; fire, earth, water and air.

Juno On TBS

Juno was a joy to work on.  I love the movie for its dry scene of humor and witty dialogue.  I have seen the film probably more than ten times, and I picked this piece  of the film since it is a very significant turn in the film.  Juno has just learned that she is pregnant and is telling her best friend, before she tells her parents or her boyfriend.  Even for such a serious conversation, the dialogue is lighthearted and shows the relationship between the two friends.

The concept of using the notebook paper for this project goes back from passing notes in class.  These girls are still in high school and i remember how I would fill a small piece of paper with ramblings and gossip.  The note was also essential if you had something important to tell you friend but did not have a chance to do so before class.   I used the handwritten typeface, but used different colors to give the girls their unique voice.  I also emphasized parts of their conversation with the Juno typeface from the movie and illustrations.

The animation was created in Flash CS4.

The Caterpillar Wall of China

My inspiration for this interpretation of Alice in Wonderland were vintage travel posters.  Because the story of Alice is similar to a great odyssey like an old Greek myth, where the hero has a series of trials to overcome.  Alice is taken on a journey through Wonderland, which after reading the story sounded very exotic.  Loving the vintage airlines posters and graphic designers like Herbert Matter, I wanted to create a series of posters my own.  Turning the secondary characters into travel destinations, I imagined Alice traveling through Wonderland.

Starting of sketching I like to hand draw all my images before translating them into a digital image.  After multiple sketches and working out the composition, I will scan the image and place it in Illustrator.   Typically I will build the image up in gray scale before deciding on the color scheme.

Fox Guarding the Henhouse

Foxy Guarding the Henhouse is an illustration based on the proverb with the same name.  The phrase can be traced back to Latin which is “Ovem lupo commitere” (Don’t let a wolf guard the sheep).  I love this saying, because I feel its still hold a lot of value today.  Don’t assign a job to someone who can exploit it for his own means, because the power will be too tempting. I think a great example of this is what is going on on Wall street right now.  We let the Fox guard over our pensions, savings, investments, and in the end the Fox got the financial bail out, and we ended up with less.

This illustration is created using oil pastels.  The image of the fox has been in my work for many years.  He appears in my sketchbooks most frequently.  He is both admired and hated for his cunning wits.  In Celtic tradition the fox is viewed as a guide, compared to China where he is viewed as a signal from the afterlife.  In most cultures however, the fox is a symbol for intelligence, adaptability, wisdom, and cleverness.

The Great Cheshire Cat of Egypt

My inspiration for this interpretation of Alice in Wonderland were vintage travel posters.  Because the story of Alice is similar to a great odyssey like an old Greek myth, where the hero has a series of trials to overcome.  Alice is taken on a journey through Wonderland, which after reading the story sounded very exotic.  Loving the vintage airlines posters and graphic designers like Herbert Matter, I wanted to create a series of posters my own.  Turning the secondary characters into travel destinations, I imagined Alice traveling through Wonderland.

Starting of sketching I like to hand draw all my images before translating them into a digital image.  After multiple sketches and working out the composition, I will scan the image and place it in Illustrator.   Typically I will build the image up in gray scale before deciding on the color scheme.