I've been trying to come up with something to use as my personal logo for the design and photo work I do. These are some of the ideas I've come up with so far. Let me know what you think! I love feedback!
I am a student at the University of Kansas majoring in Photo Media and minoring in Mass Communications (News and Info). I love all styles of art and showing what I create and what others have created that inspires me and I would like to share that with you.
Tuesday, July 1, 2014
Monday, June 23, 2014
Thursday, May 1, 2014
Final Spreads
Here are my final spreads for my book which include the book jacket, end page, title page, table of contents and my two double page spreads. Enjoy!
Wednesday, April 30, 2014
Revisions
These are revisions from critique from classmates and my professor. The table of contents do not have the color hue/overcast that they do on here, something went wonky when uploading them on here.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
Inspiration
I encourage all designers/artists to check out designspiration.net if you haven't already. It is a website packed full of inspiration for anything and everything.
Enjoy!
Enjoy!
Possible Final Layout
I designed this layout after talking with my group and progressively working in class and asking opinions. This is what I have so far, and I dig it.
Tuesday, April 15, 2014
Project 4: Creating a Book
YAY FINAL PROJECT!!!
Today in class we critiqued each others spreads and figured out what else we need to design, along with getting in our groups and deciding on a book title and where things will go in the book. I'm pretty excited because I am paired up with three other photographer students who chose photographers as well, so we get our very own book of photographers. Our book is called "The Photo Book," simple and to the point because we think that our photographers are all fairly minimal and simple. The other photographers in our book are Cindy Sherman, Diane Arbus, and Annie Leibovitz.
Layout 1
Layout 2
Layout 3
Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Collaging
These are photos I took the other day in class while I was working on a way to layout my collage. The main bunch of the set was an idea I had with Margie to kind of have pictures of Gus sleeping or looking innocent in a grid like form and then have a place that was frantic and had a lot of overlay and was him playing.
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After showing this to Margie again, up on the wall and getting some feedback from other classmates and the TA we decided to have more space between things and to have more of a narrative.
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After showing this to Margie again, up on the wall and getting some feedback from other classmates and the TA we decided to have more space between things and to have more of a narrative.
So this is my final idea and what I am working on.
An Idea
I had been talking with Margie about how I should present my collage of my cat Gus. She had an idea of taking close up photos of my cat and kind of reconstructing that as a collage to make a bigger version of him. I thought that would be totally awesome, but then I never got around to taking those pictures.
So then I thought, well what if I had the silhouette of a cat and put the collage of Gus into that. Have the overall outline as the cat.
So then I thought, well what if I had the silhouette of a cat and put the collage of Gus into that. Have the overall outline as the cat.
So I tried that and got some feedback from classmates and it was a good idea but Margie brought up that you look at the overall thing, you see the cat silhouette when I'm wanting you to see the cat in the photos. So it was back to the drawing board.
Tuesday, April 1, 2014
"Photography Changes Everything" by Marvin Heiferman Reflection
What I got from Marvin Heiferman's article is the title, exactly. Ironic ay?
He talked about how photographs have changed, the meaning behind them, the way we take photographs, the things we use photographs for, everything about them, and it all has changed. Even in my 22 years, well I'll say like 12 because I was young before and hardly knew anything but that's beside the point, photography has changed so much in my time. My first real camera was a Minolta 3, it was a film camera and I loved it. I still love it, I miss film. Shooting film is something kind of magical that not a lot of the kids of today will really understand. Then I moved up to digital about two years ago when my mom bought me my Canon Rebel T3. It's my baby. And as much as I love digital, it's something new and different, even still.
Now-a-days everyone can be a photographer though. You don't have to have a big, fancy camera to be a "photographer" and that kind of pisses me off. Just because you have a camera on your phone and post selfies and pictures of sunsets with filters on your Instagram account does not make you a photographer, it makes you a "photographer." By that I mean, yeah you take the time to snap a picture of something you like but is it worthy? Is it worthy of being shown in the Smithsonian or MoMa? I mean, we are kind of getting to that age where yeah that could happen if it's a compelling series or something but, I still think it's just a bunch of baloney.
And Heiferman talks about this in the article, talking about the changing of the medium and the meanings of photographs. To me, I love the old way, I love film and Polaroids. And that will always be a form of photography but it might start to get over shadowed by the Insta-famous generation we live in.
Heiferman also makes a point about other kinds of photographers and the differences in what makes a good photograph. And it's a valid point. Not only does everyone see something differently when they look at a photograph, but depending on your background or your occupation you can see photographs differently too. He mentioned being asked to sit in on a photography talk at the Smithsonian with others to talk about it and was surrounded by a geographer, an astrophysicist, a former director of a major art museum and an information analyst for the CIA. Weird stuff, but they all have to look at photographs and look at them differently because of their profession and what they are needing to look for or are looking at.
Photography is a weird thing. I dig it.
He talked about how photographs have changed, the meaning behind them, the way we take photographs, the things we use photographs for, everything about them, and it all has changed. Even in my 22 years, well I'll say like 12 because I was young before and hardly knew anything but that's beside the point, photography has changed so much in my time. My first real camera was a Minolta 3, it was a film camera and I loved it. I still love it, I miss film. Shooting film is something kind of magical that not a lot of the kids of today will really understand. Then I moved up to digital about two years ago when my mom bought me my Canon Rebel T3. It's my baby. And as much as I love digital, it's something new and different, even still.
Now-a-days everyone can be a photographer though. You don't have to have a big, fancy camera to be a "photographer" and that kind of pisses me off. Just because you have a camera on your phone and post selfies and pictures of sunsets with filters on your Instagram account does not make you a photographer, it makes you a "photographer." By that I mean, yeah you take the time to snap a picture of something you like but is it worthy? Is it worthy of being shown in the Smithsonian or MoMa? I mean, we are kind of getting to that age where yeah that could happen if it's a compelling series or something but, I still think it's just a bunch of baloney.
And Heiferman talks about this in the article, talking about the changing of the medium and the meanings of photographs. To me, I love the old way, I love film and Polaroids. And that will always be a form of photography but it might start to get over shadowed by the Insta-famous generation we live in.
Heiferman also makes a point about other kinds of photographers and the differences in what makes a good photograph. And it's a valid point. Not only does everyone see something differently when they look at a photograph, but depending on your background or your occupation you can see photographs differently too. He mentioned being asked to sit in on a photography talk at the Smithsonian with others to talk about it and was surrounded by a geographer, an astrophysicist, a former director of a major art museum and an information analyst for the CIA. Weird stuff, but they all have to look at photographs and look at them differently because of their profession and what they are needing to look for or are looking at.
Photography is a weird thing. I dig it.
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Sontag "On Photography" Reflection
When reading Susan Sontag's article "On Photography" I kept going back and thinking about the video I watched earlier with David Hockney. At the beginning of the video he talks about photography as an art that is much simpler than working on a painting but then again it's not. It's thinking of that split second that you want to capture and how you are going to develop this image and then mount it and all the back story that no one really thinks about, unless you are a photographer.
Sontag also brings up the same point a little but also goes a little deeper. Talking about how photographs are an easy, handheld thing and can be reproduced multiple times. Adding them into a book can make them last even longer than they could as an image alone. It's all things that you kind of think about but don't really think that much about unless it somehow comes up or, like I said before, you're a photographer.
Sontag also brings up the same point a little but also goes a little deeper. Talking about how photographs are an easy, handheld thing and can be reproduced multiple times. Adding them into a book can make them last even longer than they could as an image alone. It's all things that you kind of think about but don't really think that much about unless it somehow comes up or, like I said before, you're a photographer.
Think Hockney
Today in class we watched a video on David Hockney and the way his visions become a reality in a final product. All I could think the entire time was, I love the way he thinks and I love the way he works.
He went through the motions of deciding on what to photograph, and thought about it for a long period of time. Slowly making his way to finally photographing the event, and filming the event to show a difference in photo and video. He then, because of the time he was doing this, had to take the film to a one-hour photo service to develop his film. Sadly they messed up two rolls, but hey it happens. I know it happened to me a couple times when I was first getting into photography, a roll of film gets messed up and you move on. He did great at moving on. He worked with what he had. Even a note left by the man who developed the film and messed up the two rolls he incorporated into the final project.
Overall, like I said in the beginning, I absolutely love the way he thinks about his subjects. I want to think more like Hockney. I like that he used to think, exhibitions of photos weren't a big deal. Then did an experiment with a grid of Polaroids and got inspired. A new way of thinking of photography. Creating a scene with not just one photo but multiple photos with each other. Photos that don't just show a person in one perspective or one emotion but multiple emotions.
Today, I am very much feeling inspired by David Hockney.
Here is the link to the video that we watched in class today. Enjoy!
He went through the motions of deciding on what to photograph, and thought about it for a long period of time. Slowly making his way to finally photographing the event, and filming the event to show a difference in photo and video. He then, because of the time he was doing this, had to take the film to a one-hour photo service to develop his film. Sadly they messed up two rolls, but hey it happens. I know it happened to me a couple times when I was first getting into photography, a roll of film gets messed up and you move on. He did great at moving on. He worked with what he had. Even a note left by the man who developed the film and messed up the two rolls he incorporated into the final project.
Overall, like I said in the beginning, I absolutely love the way he thinks about his subjects. I want to think more like Hockney. I like that he used to think, exhibitions of photos weren't a big deal. Then did an experiment with a grid of Polaroids and got inspired. A new way of thinking of photography. Creating a scene with not just one photo but multiple photos with each other. Photos that don't just show a person in one perspective or one emotion but multiple emotions.
Today, I am very much feeling inspired by David Hockney.
Here is the link to the video that we watched in class today. Enjoy!
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Collage Progression
Here are the two collages that I chose to do more with over break. At the end of class today, with the help of my peers, I chose to continue on to the final project with my photos of Gus, my cat. It will be executed differently than I did here. I will have a larger board and have little sections of collage clusters, possibly in a grid like form and have photos of him moving around my apartment as transition photos.
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My Cat Gus
Chi O Fountain
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