a lost Wall-e

Usability is a big part of design. I had an Information Design class that I really enjoyed. It allowed me to look at my ideas not only as the designer, but I had to put myself in the shoes of the user to make sure that my end-to-end experience was complete and accurate.

In this small assignment, we were asked to walk from our classroom to a restaurant down the street in the mind of a particular user. We drew names from a hat and I was excited to find that I pulled the Disney and Pixar character, Wall-e. So, I channeled one of my favorite characters and was on my way. I kept in mind that Wall-e wouldn’t know much about the world around him because the Earth he knew was mounds of garbage and solitude. I kept it simple, showed him things that he'd be familiar with (i.e. fire extinguisher) and used it all to create a map for him so that he would make it to Eve in time for dinner.Again, it wasn't a big assignment as far as marks go, but I enjoyed it.

*The light at the cross walk was censored so that when Wall-e would cruise by,it would make a noise because it was just at his height. That noise would let Wall-e know he was on the right track. Then, he would feel the bumpy grates in the sidewalk as he rolled overtop of them.

No Excuses

This was another class project that I completed. I can’t exactly be sure of what the assignment specifics were, but we were allowed to pick a Canadian organization. I chose the Canadian Blood Services because at the time, I had never donated blood. A couple of my friends had, and encouraged me to do so over the years. I mean, you not only had a chance to help save lives, but you got free cookies!
For this campaign that I came up with, I focused on the fact that the only things really keeping people from donating is fear and excuses. I even found on the Canadian Blood Services website the top 10. So after some sketching and filtering through ideas, I presented these 3 as my final product.

Since the completion of this project, I have become a blood donor. My only mistake was taking a friend with me who had a fear of needles. She needed more juice and cookies than I did.

200 Days of Danielle

This was a project I did for a class last year. We were to do a self portrait that wasn't the usual 'trace an outline of your silouette' or your favorite photo of yourself.Clearly,I could not just choose one photo.This came to me from the 500 Days of Summer movie poster.Disclaimer: Not all my work will revolve around movies. To me this was the easiest way to show my interest in art,film and my many expressions captured in photo form. It did take a while to accumulate the photos and it's 200 because I didn't have enough for 500.Thank goodness.After hours of arranging the photos,I couldn't look at myself in the mirror for several days afterwards.  

                                            

Tangled Posters

  Disney's Tangled has become one of my all time favourites so it was only natural for me to make minimal posters of it. I enjoyed making them and I am happy with how they turned out. I also got to learn the limits of creating your own scatter brush.
  

more minimal

   

I can't take all the credit for the Dark Knight one,my brother had the idea. I simply executed it.

my TYPE of thing

I love typography and I love movies. So my next find was quite exciting for me. Again, it has made me want to try something in a similar realm. I'm not an animator though,so that poses a bit of a road block. Here is just a sample of some emotive type that made me wish I had the knowledge and patience to attempt something like this. Stay tuned for my version, something I think I'll call "Motionless Emotive Type"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7WQGrZUdb0

Minimal Posters

I was fortunate enough to be informed of a blog out there that allows people to post their twist on movie posters. http://minimalmovieposters.tumblr.com/

Using the most minimal imagery, these designers put a refreshing spin on the oh-so typical formats of some movie posters out there. Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

In my realization of how cool this idea was, I decided to take my turn at it. Originally I had grabbed my sketchbook and sat in front of my DVD collection to get inspired. I got to the computer and one thing led to another. I have a few favorites of the ones that I have completed, and others that I feel need more attention. However, for the sake of substance in this blog, I opted to post all the posters I completed one late night, not so long ago.

The trickiest part, I found, is to capture an entire movie in little detail. I took a lot of reference from the original posters or DVD covers and just simplified them further. Let me know what you think.

                                                                       

introduction

Hello there. Last year I graduated from the Communication and Ideation program at Langara College. Since then, I have taken the time to travel and work on personal design projects. I thought that it was about time that I find an alternative way to express myself that did not require a status update. Having said that, I will try to keep my postings design related. I plan to have postings of my work, work that I think ‘works’, and anything in-between. In advance, I’d like to thank all who take the time to read my posts and I encourage any constructive comments.

Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

- George Lois