Amanda Graphic Design

Hope Fence Illustration In NE Portland, I'm sure you have heard of the Hope Fence (#hopefence). My family friends own the house and the fence. While it's not exactly graphic design, it's still a contribution to the public. They asked if I could add something so I did:).   The fence on 45th and Brazee is covered in positive messages and quotes about sticking together in community in the time of this pandemic. Many of the messages are similar to the designs I'm seeing in the pandemic. So I went over to their house the other day and painted one of my favorite quotes on the fence with a little mouse and mushrooms. It's on the inside since there wasn't much room on the outside but it was fun to contribute to the hope fence. I just wanted to add something positive and Jen told me to do whatever I wanted lol. 

Quarantine Graphic Design I liked the simple art for this one, with the powerful messaging of being united. And while the fist is associated with BLM, I think it's appropriately used to also call attention to Covid-19 affecting communities of color.  I just love this art and the styling is so nice. I always am drawn to posters like these because they feel really clean and fresh. The looking up symbolism and the limited color palette draw the eyes in.  This one is so cute! I love the simplicity and positive messaging. The play on words and the positive energy of dancing. Reminds me of when my friends and I attended Some Good News' virtual prom. (If you don't know SGN, highly recommend checking it out, hosted by John Krasinski- bring tissues)   In terms of seeing graphic design, I've seen lots of posters and videos of these kind of messages across social media. I've personally been focused on learning digital drawing software and practicing my own d...

EVENT POSTER While I originally was planning on doing a poster for a band called "Saint Motel" and their performance in Portland, I was asked to create an official poster for World Oregon. I'm a part of a program called Young Leaders in Action and we have been working for months to create a curriculum for teachers about Climate Refugees. Eventually the curriculum is going to go up on the Zinn Education website but our head leader asked if I could design a "poster" that could be sent out to participants. This isn't the final design that we're going with after meeting and talking about the poster yesterday but I still made a poster which felt pretty cool. I'm excited about the new idea though!! I'll post later.

PHOTOSHOP EXPERIMENTS Original Photo of my friend Bella around Christmas time.  We were asked to take a picture of our family and photoshop it using filters and manipulating the photo. This one I took the original cropped it, and made it black and white toned, then sepia toned (by making duplicate layers). Then I used the quick selection tool to create clean lines for my hand coloring. Because I have used photoshop before, I used the overlay mode for the brush to paint in the colors. I turned the opacity down to about 15% and used a big brush to quickly fill in the areas.  With these two photos I played around with the posterize tool. These are some screenshots from messing around with the amount of levels. This photo was using the pointalize filter. Zooming in on it, while the original photo was black and white that I was working with there were small points of color. It looked like an old TV screen static. This one was using the filt...

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