Batesville Day T-Shirt Design

This is my t-shirt design for the 41st Batesville Day. One of the elements that had to be included was a marching band/music theme so I searched for clipart relating to that. I saw this image of a marching band member with a massive drum that would be perfect to put text inside and that's exactly what I decided to do. I like this simple design because it gets the point across and is not too complicated. It incorporates the marching band theme with one guy/image and tells what the event is and when it is. I like the way this turned!

ACPS Visual Arts Festival 2016

This is my poster for the annual Albemarle Country Public Schools (ACPS) Visual Arts Festival for 2016. One of the words that stood out to me that in title was "visual" so I tried to incorporate elements related to that. This where I got the eye concept. I downloaded the eye from the internet and manipulated it to look better. A requirement for the design was to incorporate a piece of artwork done by elementary school students so I then placed the artwork as the background with a lower opacity, to show the full image, while I placed a smaller, full opacity, version in the center of the eye. I placed the event's title, place, and time above and below the eye. Lastly, I placed the ACPS logo in the bottom right corner, another requirement for the poster. I am pleased with this design and it was fun to think of how to incorporate the artwork in the poster!

Life of Pi

These posters I made that are inspired by the movie "Life of Pi". I watched the movie and had to create two pieces of art. I decided to make two posters, one simple and elegant, and the other with more detail and meaning. The top image is my take on the simple and elegant poster. I wrote the title of the movie in a font I liked and then placed tiger claw marks over the text to create a sliced/cut effect. Lastly I overlaid the same tiger pattern onto the claw marks and the background to create a cohesive look. The image below is the more meaningful and detailed poster. First off, it gives a sense of what the movie is about. The boat and the ocean set the scene and Pi's face merged with a tiger's suggest that there is a relationship between the two. This is where the metaphorical meaning comes in. In the movie, Pi tells two stories to the journalist, one using real people and the other using animals to represent the people. The journalist figures out that the tiger represents Pi in the animal-story. Therefore I put their faces together to show their relationship.