Weekly Sketches

These are several sketches i have done over the course of this year. The medium varies from graphite, ink, and colored pencil. The first sketch is meant to show detail of an object. Also, for this sketch i tried to give a shading affect by allowing a small amount of the black paper to show through the colored pencil. In the following two sketches, multiple objects were place together in order to create a still life. Still life's are one of my favorite ways to sketch and i also find it to be the easiest. Some of the techniques i used was crosshatching. With the used of different levels of graphite and ink it give the sketch a shaded effect making it more realistic.

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Business Card and Logo

This is the front of a business card i created in InDesign. My business card is a collection of elements that express my personal design preference while still giving a professional appearance. I enjoy modern designs that have clean lines and a simple look. I have also recently been more interested in the use of green design. For the logo i used my initials M (McKenzie), R (Reine), and J (Johnson). My logo simulates a modern style through the use of a san serif font while the color green relates to my interest in green design. I think i was successful in making my card easy to read and straight to the point. If i could change something i would make my logo letters bolder so they stand out more to a viewer.

Quilt Pattern

This is a quilt pattern created from six different images. The quilt pattern was created in Photoshop where each image received some kind of distortion. The distorted images were placed on a preexisting quilt pattern and overlayed to give the pattern a quilted effect. When i was first choosing the images i knew i wanted to have a dark background and bright foreground. I believed the colors of the green and golden yellow would compliment one another because they are adjacent on the color wheel. I also felt that these colors on a grayed background would make them stand out. I believe if i were to do this design again i would try and line the images up better. This way all the corners would connect and create straight lines. This was one of the first designs i created in Photoshop and believe it helped me get to know the program a little better. I have currently been using Photoshop more frequently and hope my next creations show my skill development.

Planes and Angles

Planes and Angles was a created to show the process work for a project where a room had to be created to fit the phrase "a room to think." The first images selected where sketches of a nature object (star fruit) that I could relate to Coco Chanel. The bottom left is a 2-D concept model that incorporated elements from the star fruit and also Chanel's personal design style. The final model is located on the bottom right. This model incorporates elements from the star fruit and the 2-D concept model. I believe this is a room to think because the vertical triangular points section off areas to give a private space for people to think. The room is designed this way because when I want to think I like being alone. I think one of my strengths on this creation is the layout. I think it pulls you through the process in a sequential order. I also think that its easy to read. Something I believe i could fix would be to cut the nature object sketches out using Photoshop. This way it would strictly be just the image itself and not the white boarder taking up more of the background image.

Textile Pattern

This is an image of a textile pattern I created. The textile has a personal correlation with my heritage and relates to the Sioux Indian Tribe. After doing research I concluded that eagle feathers, buffalo and the prairie grass the Sioux lived on in South Dakota were the most important. These images then became my inspiration of the design. The process involved the use of Photoshop to crop out the images and to distort the background of the grass to make the textile more interesting. InDesign was also used to create a multiple block pattern giving the effect of repetition of the images. Over all i like the textile i created. I believe one of the strengths in this textile is that the background blends together. One thing I could improve on would be to enhance the foreground images to make the piece more interesting.