Author: Abby Marino
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Diorama Animation
The Assignment For our animation class, we had to come up with a 15 second animated diorama about a topic of our choice. Simple, right? It was actually more difficult than it seemed. Coming up with the topic was the hard part, and I spent a while trying to figure out what to do. Turns…
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Fashion Brand Logo Design
The Goal In class together, we asked ChatGPT to come up with a prompt for a high end fashion brand using a series of questions. Using the information the AI gave us, we were able to formulate ideas and sketches of possible logo designs for this fake brand. Concept Development My final logo developed from…
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State Posters
The Goal For a class project, our goal was to pick four states of our choosing, and create state posters without including the state name or shape. For my topic, I chose to design posters based off of state birds. Other classmates did themes like landmarks, flowers, or other animals. Below are some initial sketches…
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3D Illustrated Cover
The Goal For a class project, our assignment was to choose a piece of current news to create a 3D magazine cover out of. I chose to do 3D housing, which started the search for innovative and efficient construction methods. It also seemed appropriate to model a house in a 3D software that looks like…
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Hometown Brochure
Logo Process I grew up in the small town of Coventry, Rhode Island. With not much to work with, I had to dig into Coventry’s history, and found out that my town used to be an important mill town. I decided pretty quickly that I wanted to base my logo off of that fact, since…
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Making A Newsletter
The Process The next step in our graphic design journey in class was to learn Adobe Illustrator. One of the major projects required for this lesson is to make a newsletter about any topic we wanted. I chose flowers, naturally. The newsletter was going to be a four page spread, so we needed to distribute…
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Recyclobot Project
The Goal The goal of the Recyclobot Project is to encourage younger audiences to recycle waste efficiently. By building this bot, it is an easy and creative way to reuse household items that would have otherwise been thrown out. We were tasked in class to come up with our own Recyclobot design, using recyclable objects…
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My Personal Work
My Takeaway, Despite the challenges and hardships I’ve faced throughout my life, art has always been a good and healthy way to express myself. In my opinion, art can be whatever you want it to be. It doesn’t matter whether a piece is “good” or “bad”, if you feel good doing it. Comparing your talents…
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My Brand Identity
When coming up with my personal brand, Mars & Co., I wanted it to originally be my last name abbreviated: Mar & Co. However, it didn’t flow well on the screen or even when you said it. Deciding to run with the space theme was ultimately a non-brainer, as space has always interested me. Now,…