Kellie Rust

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Kellie Rust

https://kellrust7.wixsite.com/kellierustdesigner // ig: @kr.artanddesign

My name is Kellie Rust and I am a graphic design student currently working in social media, digital, print and editorial design. Before I became a Graphic Design major, I wanted to major in Art History to become an art historian or conservator. Art from all time periods and all areas of the world fascinates me, and I wanted to include my love for it through my senior design project.

My interests in the world of graphic design and art-making range wildly, and I love to explore new ways of creating and solving problems. From hands-on printmaking to digital and UI, I strive to keep my mind open and to always be inspired. Throughout my education and career I have maintained a passion for the arts, art history and most of all design, and I hope to share that with the world through my work.

Art history can inspire growth, beauty and new beginnings. This project serves as a blending between graphic design and art history, using plant life as a catalyst. The mission is to connect the past, present and future with informational seed packets inspired by historical art and design. Each seed packet is inspired by a different time period in history, reflecting that period with a plant that represents the art of the time.

By planting new life while looking back at its significance throughout our human story, we can begin to think deeper about our past and the importance of meaning. All the while, we can inspire and look toward the future as we grow and change through time.

Bruce Scott

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Bruce Scott

Socks—you put them on, pull them up, and go about the rest of your day. But there’s a lot more to socks than meets the eye. They are a serious business. Socks are the glue that binds an outfit together. As an introvert crazy socks allow me to retain my individuality and express it without coming out of my shell. Toe-tal Rebel is a an online crazy socks company whose mission is to design, fun creative socks that helps people express themselves on any particular day depending on their mood. They believe that true happiness stems from the freedom to be yourself.

Gina Shoulders

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Gina Shoulders

https://gshoulde.myportfolio.com // tw: @GinaLShoulders // ig: @inst.inkz

Gina Shoulders is dedicated to creating impactful and personal designs, through an illustrative approach. Her main interest is forming a connection between the viewer and her designs

My project is meant to appreciate curly hair types and empower curly haired people who may not be confident with their hair, or are struggling in their journey of accepting their hair.

Ash Smith

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Ash Smith

https://amasmith26.wixsite.com/octopars // ig: @octopars

Finding John Doe is a long-form comic about a ghost with amnesia facing the realities of his death and the afterlife. The comic is a mystery, comedy, and action-adventure story exploring identity and purpose. Finding John Doe will continue after its first chapter online as a webcomic. Having my story be presented as a book and webcomic is essential to my process since I am both a traditional and digital artist. My work consists of illustrations, comics, and zines using a mix of digital and traditional mediums. I enjoy working with the mundane mixed with the magical or spooky, focusing on character narrative and romance. I knew I wanted to make a comic from the very beginning. Comics are my best form of storytelling, as they are the greatest influence on my artistic process. Through my original characters, I can hide my vulnerabilities and experience more powerful emotions than I could ever be able to as myself. The main character of my comic, John, does not know what is happening to him or why, and he can not run away from it; he has to find a way to carry on. The story's core is about grieving what you lost and what could have been but moving forwards with what you have now.

Sally Soto

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Sally Soto

https://www.snsdesigner.com// ig: @s_n_s_design

I am a graphic designer who specializes in utilizing my illustration strengths in my work. I enjoy using these strengths in animation, web design, and other types of creative work. I enjoy telling a story through my work to create a memorable experience.

My animation is a delve into my religious upbringing. Straying from my parents ideals, I discovered and formed by own beliefs. I want to look back on my life and feel happy with how I chose to live it and have those who view my work to do the same.

Michael Sowell

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Michael Sowell

https://sowelldesign.myportfolio.com/ // ig: @sowelldesign

Hello! My name is Michael Sowell, I’m a graphic designer based in the Northern Virginia area. Enthusiastic college student pursuing a Bachelor's degree in Information technology and Graphics design. Strong history of successful projects using leadership, communication, and teamwork to complete tasks.

Well-organized, reliable, and proficient in CAD, and Adobe software. Dedicated to making real-world contributions and expanding knowledge through great artistic and computer-programming skills. Articulate communicator and proven ability to work hard while maintaining professionalism. Outside the world of design, you'll find me enjoying being a digital creator (preferably Youtube YT Channel- @Jedimike7), reviewing movies such as Marvel, Star Wars, and more

Cinema Crates ft. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever. This is a subscription service for films fans for the intent to bring physical media back to film audience and a incentive to come to movie theater chains. In this packaging includes 12x18 custom film poster and 8x10 limited edition comic cover. Also include exclusive film tickets as well as 8.5 x11 prints.

Richard Vachon

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Richard Vachon

A lot of my earliest memories include a pencil in hand and dreams of being an artist. Primarily, the art I make combines line and color, but I am also fascinated with juxtaposition. My marks are loose and controlled. I contrast the detailed and the gestural along with improvisation and the premeditated. The sublime and the profane fight and often gel with one another. I strive to illicit any emotional response from the viewer. I seek and find inspiration from the entire history of creatives. Old masters, Expressionism, Surrealism, illustration, movies, animation, cartoons, comics, and mass-produced disposables are just a few. I am drawn to the beautiful and the absurd. Often, I create art that reflects the zeitgeist but feels timeless. I like to explore the earnest and the frivolous. I have a cartoonist’s anarchic spirit, so my art is often infused with humor. I try not to shy away from transgressive impulses and accidents are always welcome. I set boundaries for myself, then go wild within those self-imposed rules. I mainly work with traditional media such as pencil, ink, charcoal, and paint but want to include digital tools in my art. I hope a little piece of my id and personality are displayed in each of my works.

Fascinated with the malleability of clay, what better symbol of life animated from the lifeless as the golem? Distortion and humor, texture, shadow, and character were considered when creating these compositions. These eerie totems represent the grotesque and playful, malformed creatures ripped from the earth and cast into a nightmarish limbo of perpetual torturous ecstasy.

Cleo Wolfe

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Cleo Wolfe

http://dogbluddesigns.wordpress.com // ig: @dogbluddesigns

My name is Cleo Wolfe, and I create weird low-brow designs. I am highly influenced by 90s grunge-era aesthetics and modern technological concepts. Before becoming a designer, I was a cybersecurity specialist for 4 years. During my time, I became more and more jaded with the concept of smart devices and the overall concept of the Internet of Things. I also became disheartened as more and more people that I knew fell prey to hackers trying to steal their valuable information.

"Your Home of the Future" is a fictitious PSA that pokes fun and explores the idea that while we may become more and more dependent on smart devices; without knowledge of how hackers can trick you, we become ignorant and easy to prey upon.

Anthony Wong

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Anthony Wong

https://rxanthony.wixsite.com/studio // TT @RxAnthony_ // IG @RxAnthony_ // TW @RxAnthony_

As an artist, I want to create playful, awe-inspiring pieces. When I first started out, I would make art with just graphite and colored pencils, but throughout my art career I realized there are many more mediums, and I was determined to try as many as I could. I wanted to expand my skill set by creating both two dimensional and three dimensional art with wood, metal, and other materials. In high school, I discovered a love for digital art. As I continued to work digitally, I realized my real passion is painting in college; there’s something about applying the paint to the canvas and physically creating with my hands that is much more satisfying and allows my work to flow. I love to create vibrant works of art with dynamic color palettes. I want to bring out the whimsical side of the viewer to make them feel like anything is possible.

The only constant in life is change. People are always transitioning and evolving as you live and learn. Transition can mean different things. For some it's a change in career or a new hobby; for others it's a revelation that affects everything in your life. My transition was medical and took me 6 years to get to where I am, but the journey is never over. There are only pauses. My journey is mine alone and your journey is unique to you, but similarities can always be found. I want to show my revelation and hopefully there's a part to relate to.

Breah Woods

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Breah Woods

My purpose is to demonstrate that I am a person who thinks beyond boundaries and applies the learnings I gained in my design and art classes to everything I do.

The ethos and essence of the late designer Virgil Abloh has inspired me to establish a non-profit organization dedicated to spreading his message. NineThirty has been created as a part of Virgil's long-term initiative to make design, art, and culture more inclusive of young Black designers and those from non-traditional backgrounds in order to create pathways for greater equity and inclusion across the creative industries.

Kaitlyn Yang

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Kaitlyn Yang

https://kyang28.myportfolio.com // ig: @kaitlynyangdesign

I'm Kaitlyn Yang, a graphic designer who specializes in corporate branding, identity, marketing and UI and UX Design. I have a passion for designing and expressing my ideas. I strive to learn more about design and I want to branch out and broaden my knowledge while showing my creativity. I work well with others and I’m always willing to learn more. I utilize my design skills to communicate and I strive to improve user experiences.

I am currently designing and creating a fun card game as I am passionate about card and board games and want to expand my design skills in packaging design. This game is a fun way for me to try new design projects while also expanding my design skills in different ways. This card game is meant to be a colorful joyful game to play with your friends while also stabbing your friends in the back with these small drawings of birds. I hope to make a fun game that many people can play in the future.

Dayana Yapur

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Dayana Yapur

https://dayanayapura2a9.myportfolio.com // ig: @yapur.art

When it comes to art, I love all forms of it. I mainly pursue photography, branding, and illustrations.

I wanted to redesign 3 album covers that I think need improvement. It’s different from the original because it’s about me. I choose a hip-hop album, a country album, and a reggaeton album. These albums mean a lot because it’s a history of how my music evolved throughout the years. I choose to do album covers because I love music. Ever since I could remember, I was always singing and dancing. My vision for the design aspect is to show surrealism. I used mainly photoshop to manipulate the photos to give them a surreal look. I tried to stay away from the standard album covers that you see. In the back of the album covers, it explains more in depth about the meaning behind each concept.

The Marshall Mathers LP Around this time, I was in middle school. I was trying to find myself and who I wanted to be. Along the way, I discovered that I like doing my hair, playing with makeup, painting my nails and being obsessed with the color pink. I wanted to reflect my girly side by adding pink clouds and butterflies. I also kept some of the elements of his songs to the album cover. I included fire as a representation of the anger and violence that his songs portray.

Crash My Party The twirl effect is a representation of my experience and memories. On the bottom right is a photo of a plane. Around this time, I was flying back to Virginia from Bolivia. We don’t have beaches, so that summer I planned a trip to the beach. One of the memories was eating ice cream. I remembered vividly of how different the taste was comparing to Bolivia. On the bottom right, is a photo of a driving car. Around this time, my sister was teaching me how to drive and we used to drive for hours late at night. The crowd on the phone represents the excitement that the songs bring.

Emmanuel This album is exciting and upbeat. This is the type of genre that I’m currently listening to. Right now, I’m feeling excited to graduate. That’s why I wanted to include a graduation photo. I think more than ever, I’m just trying to have fun and enjoy my life. As I’m getting older, time has played a big part of my life. I just want to feel like I’m not wasting time and going to the right direction. The photo of the stairs represents a new chapter.