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SF foodie!

Last quarter for my Publication Design class,I designed a magazine called "SFfoodie" and had so much fun in the creative process! I went to a ton of great restaurants in the city and tried loads of yummy dishes and photographed them for my content images. One of the best things about living here in the city is the food scene and I am VERY much involved. Check out some of the amazing photos I took at Zuni, Bar Agricole, and Mission Chinese food as well as the entire magazine itself. A lot of the pages are stronger than others and I think I am most pleased with the cover. thoughts?

.iheartfall.

Well the Fall Quarter has begun a lot faster than I had intended! I'm loving some of my new classes, specifically my Graphics and Licensing as well as Applied Branding. For Graphics and Licensing, we are developing characters and branding them as en entity all quarter long, almost as if we were pitching to Disney. I decided to create Russian nesting dolls that come to New York City by way of their new owner bringing them home to his daughter Matilda. I plan on journaling their adventures from the Met to Central Park. Here's what they look like so far!

AM Cassandre

grandma buck buck

For my final project in my design II course this quarter, we were first assigned the challenge of finding an object in our possession that holds true value. After some deliberation, it became obvious to me that I would use a vintage perfume bottle that my grandma gave me. We then wrote a fictional story based on the object and started the process of "iconizing" the bottle. Through the journey I photographed, sketched, and illustrated the bottle to reach the final product of an editorial spread suitable for a magazine. Here is what I have so far!

!!photos photos photos!!

obsessed with my new camera!

just got a nikon d3100, expect to see lots of photos from now on!

The Kind Diet

Sinbads

One of the first projects I was given at San Francisco magazine was to generate an ad for the iconic restaurant Sinbad's on the Embarcadero. The concept was simple, clean, and modern. Their ad had suffered many long years in our annual publication CityGuide, and was do for a make-over. The humor in this ad comes from the fact that I also had to be the subject for the photos because there weren't enough young people in the restaurant on the day we shot the photos. Not only did I create the ad, I also got to star in it!

Iron Heart

What a rainy San Francisco day! Well the weather outside may be frightful, but here at my desk at the magazine office I'm staying toasty! One of the greatest things about going to FIDM is the close relationship they have with the entertainment industry. I was assigned a project to make a movie poster for a huge blockbuster film for which FIDM actually has the genuine collateral and photography. Working with professional images makes a world of difference when you are using photo shop to alter and render new images. Here is my movie poster I created for Iron Man. I wanted to keep the main emphasis on the actual character and focus on the backdrop having a smokey iridescent effect. I hope you like it!

Another Day Collage-ing Away

i heart photoshop.