cartographilia: tracings

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documenting the education of MICHAEL GARRETT, a communication design major at the University of North Texas. previous education includes a BS in architecture from the University of Texas at Arlington. this is an attempt to catalogue a designer’s thought process and education – inhibited by an unhealthy obsession with mapping (visual and verbal).

038: summer reading

Filed under: inspiration

036: zero g stationery

stationeryweb

stationeryweb

Filed under: graphic design

037: AFI film festival poster

a poster promoting the film adaptation of ‘part of the story’, based on a short story of the same name by stephen dobyns. a mother of 63 years is confronted by the five children she gave up for adoption over a career of heavy sexual activity. she tries to justify her decisions by assigning each of them a fake father (“they were all grand men”) and then creating an appropriate falsified history for each. once they discover the dead body of the previous night’s sexual conquest (a decent older gentleman named bert), she proceeds to recant her five previous fabrications and creates one sweeter story – that he is the father of all five of them.

posterfrontweb

posterbackweb

Filed under: graphic design

035: i let this thing slip. marks.

Print

Print

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all of these are for zero g (parabolic flights simulating zero gravity).

Filed under: graphic design

034: it begins… again

this semester: graphic design and color theory. the challenges ahead include hand renderings, client research and identity systems, logos, collateral stationary design, and another informational poster.

my client for this go round is ZeroG… a company which offers the experience of zero gravity (at a hefty cost) to thrill seekers. it involves going up in a plane that is custom built for parabolic flight… going up and down at sever arcs so one might experience zero gravity (and/or watching your vomit float…). more info here.

Filed under: Uncategorized

033: I WANT THIS:

Filed under: inspiration

032: final type poster featuring zora neale hurston

typeposterfront

typeposterback

Filed under: typography

030: mmmmmm. wish it was my work.

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Filed under: inspiration, typography

029: indesign can kiss my ass

desperately trying to wrap up this travel brochure.

just realized that i forgot about a beer i opened 2.5 hours ago and left it sitting on the counter. that’s what this software will do to you.

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still trying to figure out some basic facts about this program. for instance… why the hell is the color picker so weird/different?

i just wanna make a color darker and instead i can make it… a bunch of other colors that aren’t what i’m looking for. rawr.

Filed under: 'computers and design'

028: finishing stretch – finalizing the type poster

still have to wrestle with the plotter and color calibration.

front:

poster-front

back:

poster-back

i’m still dying to know: since when does a poster have a friggin back?

Filed under: typography