Shana Moulton: Whispering Pines.

Shana Moulton’s Whispering Pines is probably one of my most favorite contemporary video artists. Her videos are somewhat goofy, but beautiful in the same aspect. I love the fact that she incorporates qualities of dancing because I love to dance. I tend to make little dance videos with one of my best friends. I always find myself dancing along with Moulton when I watch her work.

“Shana Moulton creates evocatively oblique narratives in her video and performance works. Combining an unsettling, wry humor with a low-tech, Pop sensibility, Moulton plays a character whose interactions with the everyday world are both mundane and surreal, in a domestic sphere just slightly askew. As her protagonist navigates the enigmatic and possibly magical properties of her home decor, Moulton initiates relationships with objects and consumer products that are at once banal and uncanny.”1

1. http://www.eai.org/eai/artistBio.htm?id=10320

Exercise with Speak.

This is just an exercise for one of my design classes…not an actual speak spread.

Taking the article “Fabulous Us” by Natalia Ilyin and including it in a class exercise to design spreads for Speak Magazine, I had to find imagery that would fit with the context of what Speak is all about. Communication and restrictions are just a couple of segments that the article covers. I felt that applying imagery of locks and doors would fit these spreads appropriately. This was an exercise for me to surpass my normal design ability and to just have fun. This was a class project.

This is definitely the wild side of my design. I’m typically more conservative.

“Speak was a magazine, the old-fashioned kind, with paper and ink and a really expensive print bill. It published long-form interviews, fiction, essays and features on a variety of topics.

It debuted in 1995, and after several inauspicious issues, found its niche as an “uncommercial” glossy. Unlike most titles, its editorial was designed not for advertisers or a narrow demographic, but for people who fancied a thoughtful and provocative read. The magazine ceased publication in 2001.”1

1. http://www.speakmag.com/mainframe_ab.html

Speak Magazine: Spread 1

Speak Magazine: Spread 2

Speak Magazine: Spread 1

Faculty Concert Series: Patten Performances

Designed for a contest.

Creating a typographic hierarchy and a clear sound to a classical performance, aesthetics such as unity, suitability and universal application was used.  The project, in the end, would consist of three separate posters, each to a different faculty performance (series), with a postcard for each, and a cd case, along with an insert page.

I decided to use the chosen image for it’s sound look. Although classical music is structured, music itself and its soundwaves are organic. I created this image in response to that. The type treatment holds a heirarchy that also references back to the structured compostition that classical music makes.

Faculty Concert Series Package