Just for Fun

A work in progress-- playing with a book cover--for a made-up book.

The text emulates the writing style of e.e. cummings.

Packaging Design

Assignment: use typography as the sole element in packaging design of either soap, shampoo, coffee or tea. I chose to create a line of upscale, seasonal shampoo. In an effort to make the product seem more authentic, natural and, well expensive, I added ingredients to the bottles.

For summer, I put lemon and lime rinds into the bottle. For spring, baby's breath and strawberry juice. For fall, apple skins and apple cider. For winter, a creamy conditioner and spinach (meant to resemble mint).

International Typographic Style

For this project, also a part of my typography class, we were assigned design movements and instructed to create a poster for an exhibit in that style.

The design had to be 80% typography and had to include a paragraph about the movement.

Eventually, I'd like to rework the text to make it smaller and less bulky, but this is the poster as of now.

I came up with the exhibit title "Deus Ex Machina" or "God From the Machine" which is a term used in Greek theater. I found it fitting for the precision of the Swiss style, as it seemed to me that symmetry and perfect execution is holy for these designers.

Kinetic Typography

My first endeavor in Adobe After Effects and Kinetic Type

Signed, Sealed, Delivered, I'm Yours - kinetic type from Lauren Migaki on Vimeo.

Typography

This was a project for a typography class. We had to create a calendar solely of typographic elements and had to trace and then scan individual letters. Finally, we had to label the (body)parts of each letter.

I'm not 100% happy with this piece, but I do like the grid at the bottom.

Personal Website

This personal portfolio website was created for a class called "Designing Interactivity" which provided an introduction to Dreamweaver (CS3), Flash and search engine optimization.
The site is not live (hence, the need for this blog) but will be once the kinks are worked out...for now, check out the design!

News Design

Created for my News Design class.
Requirements: Create a news publication for the small town of Cazenovia, New York. Decide how often your publication will go to print. Must include a cover page, table of contents, a local news page with briefs, a page using one image as the focal point and a sports section front and jump page for a sports article.
**Gray denotes ad space

Publication name: Cazenovian Weekend
Format: News Magazine
Frequency: Weekly

Cover:

Contents:

News Briefs & Local Interest:

"Poster Page" / Image as main focal point spread:

Sports Section Front:

Sports jump page:

Logo Design: Toy Company

This logo was created for a fictional toy company for a "Type and Image" class.

Requirements: create a logo and stationary set for a fictional toy or game company.
My particular toy was a small, fuzzy, neon-colored worm. (For photographs, see the annual report)

Annual Report: Fictional Toy Company

Requirements: using the same fictional toy company created for the logo project, create an annual report with a visual and verbal theme.

All design elements, graphs, text and photographs are original.
The numbers have been borrowed from existing companies.

Cover:

Inside cover/Contents:

CEO Spread:

Year Summary Spread:

Letter to the Shareholders Spread:

Financial Summary Spread:

Inside Back Cover:

Back Cover:

Website Design/Graphic Standards Manual

Requirements: Create a website for the fictional toy company created for the logo project that incorporates an online version of the annual report assignment as well as a graphic standards manual for use of the logo.
All text, photographs and graphic elements are original with the exception of the "Lego" trophy, the video control panel, taken from YouTube for the appearance of an embedded video and the maze, which has been edited for my purposes.


Index:

Annual Report Page:

Introduction to Graphic Standards (also known as graphic guidelines) Manual:

Autobiography book art

Book jacket for my "autobiography," an assignment for my graphics type & image class.
Text, images and photographs all created by me.

Poster Design

A poster created for my graphics/photography class focusing on type and image.

Created for the Fur Free Alliance poster contest.
All images/drawings are original.

Final:

Original Version:

Poster Design

Poster design from a graphics course.