Graphic Design

Natasha Lyonne as Nadia in Russian Doll.

At the career expo I learned a lot about jobs I am highly interested in.  I got to talk to a muralist who gave me advice on donating to places first (I was planning on donating hand-drawn activity books to Stanford Children's and he gave me advice on how to go about it as well as information on a workshop he's doing).  I also learned about structuring a portfolio by painting on friends' walls or your own and then taking photos (something I want to do for fun but didn't realize could be useful to get jobs). I also talked a marine biologist who told me to continue volunteering at the Seymour Center and that I didn't even need to have college experience if I had research experience and talked about research trips I could go on as soon as I'm eighteen. A woman talking about teaching said I should do whatever I'm interested in during school until I get my bachelor's and then I can take education classes. I talked to the Conservation Corps and the park r...

I wrote the text for this poster in Adobe Illustrator and painted the picture with gouache and ballpoint pen on lined paper.  Because Barry illustrates using ink and watercolor on lined paper, I thought it was fitting for the quote.  I edited the drawing in Photoshop and then put it on the poster.  I had to go back into Photoshop and cut the bottom of it off because it didn't fit.

Color can be made up of and mixed from light or pigment.  In the subtractive color palette, which is used when mixing pigments, the primary colors are red, yellow, and blue, which make brown when mixed in the same quantities.  The additive color palette, which is used when mixing light such as on a computer screen, has the primary colors of red, green, and blue, which turn into white light when mixed.  Secondary colors come from the mixing of two primary colors, such as red and yellow making orange.  Tertiary colors are made when a primary color is combined with a secondary color, such as red and orange being mixed to make red-orange.  Colors carry deep biological and social/cultural connotations and meaning which influences us in different ways.  For example, the color red can represent stopping because of the connotation of stoplights and stop-signs and because it is a bright and noticeable color.  This is often taken advantage of in both art and mar...