Portfolio Site (for now)

I have created a portfolio site/profile though Behance. This site allows me to posts my work experience through design as well as my skills and even my work. Check it out!

behance.net/alyssapence

The Seed Has Been Planted! Muwahaha!!

So the deed is done. I now have placed my posters around campus. Now all that is left is 1. See how long the will be left up before realizing that I do not have permission! and 2. How many people will actually stop and look at them/take a mini note. At the bottom of each poster, I have put 5-7 facts, myths, or just ideas about each fear. By doing this, I hope to make light out of a fear and bring in positive thoughts!With my simple illustrations and definite theme throughout them all, I hope to draw more attention to each of them even when not hung as a set!

Final Project: Zine

My Zine is titled My Little Book of Nonsense & Silver Linings.

'Tis The Season!

As we get more and more into the holiday season, I'm getting more and more into the Christmas spirit! These are a few designs with typography that have caught my eye! C'mon now, we're all designers. we should be designing our own CHRISTMAS CARDS (or New Years)!!!! Here is a little inspiration that is helping me and should help you, too.

Girl Talk: Kim Rugg

Minus the cropping ;) This is the final piece for my Girl Talk poster. Using Kim Rugg's style, I cut out unneeded text and reassembled it to create the letterforms, and title of the talk, "Lets Talk About Text".

Final Project: Anablog

Our final project has just begun. Anablog. A play on words, analog blog, this project we are creating our own 16 page Zine (Zeene)! Our first assignment for this was to choose a designer/typographer, write a 500 word profile and find two magazine spreads that inspire us. 500 words is a lot to write! haha As my draft I have 250 words describing my chosen designer, Keetra Dean Dixon. The next part is to choose two typeface families and possibly one other for our Zine (Zeene).

Girl Talk Poster

The first idea I had was to recreate an envelope and using her name, reassemble cutup stamps. I wouldn't have very much room for creativity in that because an envelope is an envelope.

The one I am working on now is a little more her style in that I have jumbled up text and created it illegible while still keeping the "simplistic" look of the piece.

Isn't It Ironic?

For my semester project, I have been struggling with a concept that makes sense and portrays something meaningful and creates awareness. I have decided that I want to work with fears. In the book, "The Culture of Fear: Why Americans Are Afraid Of The Wrong Things" by Barry Glassner, he discusses our misconceptions of fears and where fears come from. Another resource I found was an article about fearing the right things. David Myers makes valid points of why we fear certain things over others. For instance, why would a smoker fear riding in a plane? Or why you would fear flying over riding a bike? Where did these fears come from and what makes them "fears"?

http://www.davidmyers.org/Brix?pageID=65

I want to, in some way, show how we fear things that are miniscule to bigger problems and known fatalities causers. Maybe a series of handouts or postcard type elements. I really want to make people think about the everyday things that are more dangerous and life-threatening than the ones that they would expect.

Girl Talk: Kim Rugg

Kim Rugg

With surgical blades and a meticulous hand, Kim Rugg (Canada, b. 1963) dissects and reassembles newspapers, stamps, comic books, cereal boxes, and postage stamps in order to render them conventionally illegible. The front page of the LA Times becomes neatly alphabetized jargon, debunking the illusion of its producers' authority as much as the message itself. Through her re-appropriation of medium and meaning, she effectively highlights the innately slanted nature of the distribution of information as well as its messengers. Rugg has also created hand-drawn works alongside wallpaper installations, both of which toy with authenticity and falsehood through subtle trompe l'oeil.

Rugg received her MFA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (London). Her work can be seen in the permanent collections of the National Gallery of Art (DC) and the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation (CA), the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (CA), and the Norton Museum (FL) among others. She has been included in exhibitions at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (CA), Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts (NY), Galerie Schmidt Maczollek (Cologne), and Nettie Horn Gallery (Manchester), and was the recipient of the Thames and Hudson Prize from the Royal College of Art Society in 2004. She lives and works in London (UK).

Girl Talk Poster

After visiting CAM in Raleigh, I chose to do my next project on 'Girl Talk' featured artist, Kim Rugg. She meticulously cuts up newspapers, stamps, comic books and cereal boxes and puts them back together in a different way. For my poster, I KNOW I want to use my Exacto knife skills! I want to create everything uses tiny cut-out colored letters for her biography and name. I want my poster to look like a piece of her work. I'm leaning more towards the envelope look.

"Text"

For this project, we were asked to read a section out of Ellen Lupton's Thinking With Type and write a short reflection on it. Using that write-up, we had two different parts. Part 1, the first 3, were using alignment, tracking, kerning, leading and point size. Part 2, the last 3, were using the same as before, but incorporating titles, drop caps, paragraph breaks, directional text and pull quotes.

Just A Little Joke

I found this through some "pinning" and thought that you all would understand! Very funny!

Project 2: Modular Letterforms

4-H Client Project

This is my draft mock-up of our 4-H client project. I created it in this size before realizing that there was already a mock-up InDesign file to use!

Cultural Awareness Project Finds

For homework, in thinking of what we wanted to do as part of our semester long project for Cultural Awareness, we had to find 3 examples of projects that are similar to the one we want to do. I found 2 examples of similar projects to mine and they both are pretty big! "Post Secret" is an ongoing project that allows anyone to send in a secret on a handmade postcard, pretty neat. You all should check it out, some of the secrets are hilarious! The "My Big Fat Secret" project at at the bottom is one that will be going on during SPARKcon this weekend, downtown Raleigh. It is for their IdeaSpark category. 

http://www.postsecret.com/

http://www.ideasparkraleigh.com/secrets

Senior Seminar: Chapter 1-2 Overview

Hopscotch Inspirations

This past weekend was the annual Hopscotch Music Festival. Here are some things typefaces that caught my eye!

typeFACE

I had some changes to make. Here is the "final" final!

typeFACE

As this project comes to an end, i have come to terms with an end to this project. Here is the final product of my typeFACE, self-portrait. 

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typeFACE

As of 11pm last night, this is what I came up with. And I feel like I'm doing it wrong! More process to come soon!