

Thesis II
Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/xoxrachelyo/thesis-mood-board/ Week 3: Deliverables.... <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 Week 2: Met with Karen yesterday to share progress. My goal was to get a good idea of what the brand would be focused on. I am interested in both use my illustrations and patterns for a children's clothing line and also housewares. The question now is to create one brand for all or one bran

Thesis II - Week 4
This week I worked on a presentation/mood board of what my line will look like.... Weekend... Karen pinned some lovely inspiration to my pinterest board Monday... purchased Herb typeface for font and worked on the logo. Thinking carefully about kerning, as this typeface has issues. Also thinking about logos that inspire me... cat & jack, pillowfort Tuesday... visited barn fresh to shop vintage children's chair for final display. Also spoke to owner Denise about my project so

Thesis II - Week 5
I feel like I am getting a lot done this week.... 1. FINALIZING LOGO 2. MANIFESTO 3. SKILLSHARE PATTERN TUTORIALS 4. CROWD FUNDING 5. PRODUCT PRINTING SITES 1. FINALIZING LOGO I ran the logo by Kathy and Meloney....
Kathy loved it but felt it needed a tittle
Meloney liked it without the tittle, but suggested playing with truncating the i and tucking a tittle i (which I created in option 2)
I ran it by a whole bunch of people at the Heemet Fescht this weekend. Most people

Thesis II - Week 6
WK 6 | 10/1-10/7 branding: logo (finalized) manifesto (finalized) colors type tagline 1. LOGO 2. MANIFESTO I am creating a line of products named nix nux that breath new life into traditional PA Dutch folk art designs. Taking inspiration both traditional PA Dutch folk art (fraktur, hex signs, quilts, braided rugs, woven pieces, etc.) and 30's-80's style PA Dutch kitsch surface pattern designs. I want to reframe these inspiring motifs through my own experience of PA Dutch cult

Thesis II -Week 7
There was still some leftover finalizing to do from last week (which is good, I want to really take time to get the branding right) There were also a lot of details and questions that needed answering.... 1. logo (finalized) knocked off a bit from the first x ​​ What size should my tag line be in relationship to my logo? logo & tag line scale (looking at other brands for scale of tag line in comparison to logo) I keep going back to Cat & Jack because it's my favorite logo eve


Emerging Media - Week 14
So this week has been great! Very productive. I have a timeline of what I've done each day, and a schedule for what has to be done before the show. Finding that creating original content is very time consuming but very rewarding!! A lot of time spend this and last week shooting and editing videos and photos.... Also finally was able to create an animation for the resting dresses. I just need help Friday putting all of the videos and elements together in Ae and masking it all


Emerging Media - Week 13
Deliverables: - 3 illustrations for dresses (resting/ possibly animated) - 1 video ad for clothing line - paint illustrations in conductive paint and test them ✔ Footage shot for video ✔ 2 illustrations done ✔ 1 board for easel painted with conductive illustrations ✔ 3 stands ✔ 3 dresses Project update: Friday: I finessed and cleaned up two illustrations and completed two layouts for the resting dress projection. I have been working on other patterns the past few week

Emerging Media- Week 11
Deliverables: - 3 illustrations for dresses (resting/ possibly animated) - 1 video ad for clothing line ✔ 1 board for easel painted with conductive illustrations ✔ 3 stands ✔ 3 dresses ✔ completed sketching and illustrating dress patterns/designs Update on project.... Over the weekend I searched and ordered my conductive paint, also searched for the smoothest white dresses I could fine, very happy with what I ordered. Finally I was able to find amazing clothing stands af