Alyssa Pence

Personal Site: Site Map

2011-11-28T06:12:00.001-08:00

Personal Site: Wire Frames

2011-11-28T06:07:00.001-08:00

For my personal site I wanted to use patterns, textures and warm colors. My "Home" page will have tabs for work, about, and contact information. Under my previous works tab, I'll will have sub-tabs for type design, motion design, painting, and pottery. Under my contact tab, I will have my blog URL, as well as links to my professional site such as Linked-in.

Personal Site: Mood Board

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Personal Site: Project Brief

2011-11-20T13:48:00.000-08:00

Name of site (URL): alyssapence.com

Content: Print Work

Motion Work

Hand Work

Significance: A place to display all my work and skill levels, personal place to organize all work

Audience: Prospective employers, internships.

Terror Pigeon Dance Revolt

2011-10-24T05:57:00.001-07:00

http://theterrorpigeondancerevolt.com/hi

This band is booked for Slim's November 11th. I haven't heard any of their music but their website is....interesting. It's all broken up, tiled and very confusing. BUUUT...they do have a lot of information throughout, if you can find the links. This is definitely a "bad" design for the screen because the colors don't vibe, Santa Claus is involved, and it looks like they got a LITTLE sibling to do all the drawings and words.

Web"RE"design

2011-10-16T16:48:00.000-07:00

So far this is all I have. I'm still un-decisive on what information I need/want to put in it. Also, I still have to get pictures of Slim's in person.

GOOD Website Design {10/12/2011}

2011-10-11T17:12:00.000-07:00

http://www.converse.com/#/home

I chose the Converse website as my GOOD website design. I think that this site has some good interactivity and is very appealing to the eye. I think this is a good web design because it is really organized, colorful, personal and fun. It has articles on things they support such as skateboarding, basketball, music and style. The visuals are eye-catching and the links and things are easy to figure out and use.

Slim's Downtown Distillery- Website design

2011-10-03T08:07:00.000-07:00

Modular Identity- NC Museum of Natural Sciences

2011-04-25T09:32:00.000-07:00

For my final project in Advanced Graphic Design, We had to visit a local museum and recreate it's identity, giving it a "Modular Identity". I chose the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. We had to create a full logotype, events/ special programs, outreach/education, as well as the store's identity. WE also had to create collateral.

Electric Car Charging Station Presentation *Revised

2011-04-25T09:28:00.000-07:00

Act 3-Disturbing The Peace Train

2011-04-10T18:43:00.000-07:00

For my act 3 spreads., I wanted to keep my "clean" consistency throughout my book as well as my white space. I do want to go back in all three acts to put some sort of messy "dirty" design as a background.

Imaging- Act 1 & Act 2

2011-04-06T15:04:00.000-07:00

My act 1 spreads are the same as during our critique except I moved "Act 1: Shots In The Dark" to a different spot.
For my act 2 spreads I wanted to use type as imagery. During this act, the comedian makes a joke, "the last jokes of his joke canteen dripping out onto a desert of cancer". I wanted to do a play on words which is why I decided to simulate a "desert" of of the word "cancer".

Prism Cover idea

2011-03-22T06:27:00.001-07:00

Prism Design

2011-03-22T06:24:00.000-07:00

Advanced Graphic Design-Postcard Series

2011-03-08T11:51:00.000-08:00

So my series is "Giraffe's Roam North Carolina"...sort of.

Imaging-Electric Car Charging Station

2011-03-07T18:47:00.000-08:00

Imaging

2011-02-24T07:11:00.000-08:00

Electric Car charging station 1

Imaging-Narrative Map

2011-02-10T13:37:00.000-08:00

Imaging-Map Idea 2

2011-02-08T09:10:00.000-08:00

Imaging-Map Ideas-2/7/2011

2011-02-07T09:46:00.000-08:00

Advanced Graphic Design--Idea Map Revisions

2011-01-27T08:47:00.000-08:00

I'm still so unsure if this conveys "diversity"...?

Idea Map---1/25/1011

2011-01-25T14:44:00.000-08:00

Idea Map---1/23/11

2011-01-23T10:21:00.000-08:00

This is my idea map for Advanced Graphic Design. My central word/idea was "diverse". It's definitely in the works, not fully done, and is my first time putting these ideas onto screen. :)

Public Service Poster-- 1/23/11

2011-01-23T10:14:00.001-08:00

This is my public service poster so far for Imaging class!! Please tell me what you think?!!

Type 2- Band Promo Poster Final

2010-12-07T11:21:00.001-08:00

Type"stash" anyone?

2010-12-02T16:52:00.000-08:00

Since I LOOOOVE brackets so much I thought this was too cute to pass up!

Band Promo Poster- METRIC

2010-12-02T16:33:00.000-08:00

Photoshop Play

2010-11-18T10:28:00.000-08:00

This isn't a tutorial but I was playing around and thought it looked really neat. :) I added two-sided planar depth and a dark drop shadow, then i changed the shadow from black to green, and added a whole lot of "noise". I thought it looked like grass or something of that sort crawling up the side of my name...Fun fun fun!

Rough Metal Text Effect-Photoshop-11/18/10

2010-11-18T09:56:00.000-08:00

Mine says "Tough". This tutorial was also an "intermediate" level but was honestly the easiest one I've ever done! It only had 4 steps and all were very precise. It didn't take long because you have the option of downloading the background or doing the tutorial for that too...I'm gonna try that for fun to see how it works out!

Desk Calendar

2010-11-16T10:56:00.000-08:00

11/11/2010----Layered Glowing Text Effect

2010-11-11T10:01:00.000-08:00

Again, this one was an intermediate level tutorial but easier than I thought! Some steps were a bit confusing but I did the best I could with my knowledge so far. :)

http://psd.tutsplus.com/text-effects-tutorials/create-a-layered-glowing-text-effect/

11/11/2010---Slick Supernatural Text Effect

2010-11-10T15:51:00.001-08:00

Ok so the one with my name is obviously mine and the other is what it's supposed to look like. :) I used a different font because I couldn't find that one but everything else was pretty easy. This tutorial is an intermediate one but wasn't hard at all and only took me about 30 minutes! Here's the link: http://psd.tutsplus.com/tutorials/text-effects-tutorials/a-slick-supernatural-text-effect/

So far....

2010-11-09T17:05:00.000-08:00

This is what I've been up to. So each month will have a certain "thing" or ingredient that everyone should try at some point in their life. So...to help out, the back of each month will have a recipe that includes that certain ingredient.

Table Quiz- Nov. 9, 2010

2010-11-09T12:36:00.000-08:00

Desk Calendar: Trials and Tribulations

2010-11-09T06:24:00.000-08:00

For my calendar, I was thinking of doing each month with a different signature dish from around the world. I knew I wanted to do my own illustrations using watercolor and ink.

PSD TUTS!!

2010-11-09T05:57:00.000-08:00

So here are my text effect attempts so far. The jelly effect (green) didn't work well around step 7 and after...The gold one doesn't look like the real image. I couldn't figure out some steps either.

Desk Calendar Thoughts...

2010-11-04T10:21:00.000-07:00

For this next project I was thinking of a few different ideas. One was a beach themed calendar, high tide and low tide, sun rise and sun set...all of these are different day by day and month by month. Another idea I had was to do all the illustrations by hand using ink and watercolor.

Project #3: Desktop Calendar Inspiration!!

2010-11-04T10:18:00.000-07:00

Newsletter Final

2010-10-31T16:11:00.001-07:00

Newsletter 2---

2010-10-26T13:44:00.000-07:00

I started not liking my first newsletter after seeing all the amazing ones in my class so I started over. :) Let me know what you think!

Newsletter---Try # 2

2010-10-21T13:27:00.000-07:00

Step 3

2010-10-20T14:25:00.000-07:00

Step 3---You fold the map back up, in a different way than you opened it...making sure the cover is still on the outside, Hopefully this will be a little bit of a challenge. Extra---The points are not randomly placed...since it is a United States map, the points are actually Designs schools throughout the U.S....So use those points from step 2, and figure out the names and location of these schools!

Step 2

2010-10-20T14:21:00.001-07:00

Step 2---Now that the map is open, You will find the longitude and latitude of each point. After finding the points coordinates, you will find the points in the booklet I will provide and then you'll read what event took place.

History of Graphic Design Timeline-----Step one

2010-10-20T14:19:00.000-07:00

Step 1----Open the map :)

Newsletter (outside) Drafts

2010-10-15T13:47:00.000-07:00

This is the back (left) and front (right) of my newsletter so far. The front is obviously really plain. I can't figure out if I like it plain or if I really hate it! :) Like I said before, I'm going to try and add some images to spice things up!

Newsletter (inside) Drafts

2010-10-15T13:45:00.000-07:00

This is the inside of my newsletter so far!...I definitely plan on adding my own pictures and playing more with the position of type.

2010-10-14T11:33:00.000-07:00

Final Envelope

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Final Business Card

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Final letterhead

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Business Cards 9/21/10

2010-09-21T12:52:00.000-07:00

New Logo Thoughts! 9/13/10

2010-09-13T14:45:00.000-07:00

I definitely want to keep this elephant in my logo, I love him! I've been playing with vertical logo's a bit, too.

Old-- Drawing 1 Final

2010-09-12T14:23:00.001-07:00

Logo Designs

2010-09-09T13:31:00.001-07:00

This is what I've played with so far. I tried different typefaces, color and animals. What do you think?

Logo sketches---9/7/10

2010-09-07T11:44:00.000-07:00

The Painted Bird 9/2/10

2010-09-02T13:47:00.000-07:00

9/2/10---->Other Pet Sitter's Logo's

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9/2/10

2010-09-01T18:24:00.000-07:00

This is the business card that I am going to re-create. Anything But Elephants is a professional, in-home pet sitting service that offers a safe, low cost alternative to boarding your family pets. They love and respect animals, and understand the level of quality people desire and will strive to meet and even surpass your expectations. To me this business card could have a lot more charisma and a more polished finish.

Business Card Exercise

2010-09-01T17:53:00.000-07:00

PSD Tuts! 9/1/10

2010-09-01T13:40:00.000-07:00

Well I tried to do the star brush tutorial but it didn't work very good! It did not have clear directions of where to go to find certain things...I tried!!

Final Bodoni Poster

2010-04-19T11:08:00.000-07:00

I decided to stay with the color red!

Show and Tell 4/19/2010

2010-04-19T09:39:00.000-07:00

www.kaycelomas.com

NCSU Graphic Design graduate. Created this textured typeface.

2010-04-14T13:28:00.000-07:00

Blue or Red?

The Blue one, I moved the picture down to show more of his face.

Bodoni Poster #4

2010-04-14T10:58:00.000-07:00

I tried something different to this one. I added the text to the background, behind the image and added a gradient effect. I also added the year in the upper right hand corner.

2010-04-12T11:06:00.001-07:00

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Show and Tell 4/12/10

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http://www.behance.net/Gallery/PERSONAL-ILLUSTRATIONS-2009/207756

Show and Tell 4/5/10

2010-04-05T11:05:00.000-07:00

Grid Project Final

2010-03-08T13:24:00.000-08:00

Show and Tell 3/8

2010-03-08T09:52:00.000-08:00

These images are made by Phil Hansen titled Bible Interpretation number 2. It was created in May of 2006. This caught my eye because it is such an overwhelming peice and just by looking at it you would never know that it was made up of resized Bible verses. http://philinthecircle.com/Interpretation_number_2.html

Grid Project trials

2010-03-03T10:59:00.000-08:00

Grid Execise

2010-02-24T10:52:00.000-08:00

Show and Tell

2010-02-21T17:52:00.000-08:00

This caught my attention because it looks so life like. There are just the right amount of letters in the right places to create perfect shadows and texture.

Text Exercise

2010-02-17T13:36:00.000-08:00

Word Project

2010-02-17T12:08:00.001-08:00

Show and Tell #4

2010-02-15T09:36:00.000-08:00

This was for the Breast Cancer Awareness game at NC State February 14th. This instantly stuck out to me because of the bold black letters used in "hoops" and "hope" but yet the word "for" is so delicate and pink. Anyone who were to look at this poster would know it was for Breast Cancer Awareness.

Show and Tell #3

2010-02-08T09:39:00.000-08:00

This photo caught my eye because all of the text is clear and easily read when you take a second glance you realize that the letters are made up of ordinary house objects. This image is a CD cover designed by Julia Guther.

http://www.designrelated.com/inspiration/view/designnomad/entry/2415/bits--pieces

Bitmap Font

2010-01-25T12:33:00.000-08:00

This is my prototype of the Bitmap font. We used Fontstruct to create our prototypes as real fonts.

Bitmap Prototype

2010-01-24T17:51:00.000-08:00

Show & Tell 1

2010-01-24T11:38:00.000-08:00

Type 1: Critic

2010-01-11T12:11:00.000-08:00

Drawing 1: Ribbon

2009-12-13T16:26:00.000-08:00

This is the 3rd part to out project. This is the improvisation. I wanted to show the delicacy of a ribbon but as you might see the "cause" symbol is standing strong and might even look like metal. This is also on warm 18x24 paper with woodless graphite pencil and a kneaded eraser. The picture on bottom was done first you can tell the differences from the two. the final one has a more matal look to the top of the ribbon and extends more off to the right as if it's standing up on its own.

2009-12-13T16:24:00.000-08:00

This is part 2 of the 3 for our drawing project. This is the "line" aspect of my ribbon. It is done on 18x24 plain white paper and black paint.

2009-12-13T16:09:00.000-08:00

This was my "value" drawing for one of our last projects in Drawing 1. The paper size is 18x24 in. and the medium used was a woodless graphite pencil. The first drawing was my first sketch on regular white paper. I re-drew it using the light box and decided to use a warmer paper.

Drawing 1: Paper Bags

2009-12-06T11:01:00.000-08:00

Shape 4

2009-10-12T14:38:00.000-07:00

The design on the left is the original. We were to use the same guidelines as before, except this time we were supposed to keep the essence of the square.

Shape 3

2009-10-12T14:36:00.001-07:00

The gaol was the same for this design except we had to create an abstract, non-objective design.

Shape 2

2009-10-12T14:35:00.001-07:00

Shape 1

2009-10-12T14:27:00.000-07:00

We had to cut a 4x4 in. square up and create a flat, non-objective design on a white 8in x 10in white ground. We were supposed to destroy the identity of the square.

Mark 3

2009-10-12T14:25:00.002-07:00

Mark 2

2009-10-12T14:25:00.001-07:00

Mark 1

2009-10-12T14:17:00.000-07:00

The goal of this exercise was to explore figure-ground relationship and possibilities of mark making. Our name was the inspiration for these "marks", but wasn't supposed to be readable at first glance. We were supposed to express emotion in our marks..(example: caotic marks, calm marks, thin/thick lines, etc.)

Value Study 1

2009-09-28T12:55:00.000-07:00

The drawing approach we used was to block in the value pattern. Materials used were vine charcoal, kneaded eraser, and 18x24 paper. The major goal of this lesson was to see/draw the whole before the parts. And other goals of this lesson were to see/draw as a series of relationships.

2009-09-28T12:50:00.000-07:00

The drawing was measured, seeing line. Medium used was charcoal and 18x24 paper. The major goal of this lesson was to see/draw the whole. Other goals were to see/draw a series of relationship.

2009-09-28T12:38:00.000-07:00

Blind Continuous-line Contour

Observed Continuous-line cotour

The medium used was pencil. The major goal of this lesson was to not name the object. Other goals were to use the pencil and eye as one and to celebrate distortion.

My first Post!

2009-09-01T19:56:00.000-07:00

Hey everyone this is my first post on anything like this. Umm..I guess all I have to say is that I'm working on my Drawing 1 homework!