Business Card Design For a possible business card design, I tinkered with a variety of ideas. I wanted the card to be a mix of traditional and digital media that featured my octopus mascot (see portfolio piece “Darcy”) with an original font. I created this lettering using a brush pen for my name and a […]
Project: Fantasy Graphic Design For school and work, I’d created a variety of pieces in Adobe Illustrator. Creating one of my own for personal experimentation was a project long overdue. I love the work of John Howe and other classical illustrators, but I also have found a recent inspiration in the minimalistic work of present-day […]
Project: Fantasy-Minimalism in Watercolor I created this piece as an artistic experiment, hoping to grow my skill with my new watercolor pencils. Previously, I had experimented with fantasy-minimalism in a digital format in Adobe Illustrator, and I wanted to implement a similar style in a traditional medium. Watercolor pencils translate well to simplicity, so I […]
This is Darcy, the new portfolio mascot! Darcy represents my multi-genre skills, including writing, editing, art, and social media. I created little Darcy using mixed traditional and digital media (pencil, technical pen, Adobe Illustrator, respectively). Darcy is holding a tablet pen and a USB mouse to represent digital media, a quill and ink bottle for […]
When my college department held a contest for a t-shirt design, I knew I wanted to enter. The Professional Writing program has a chameleon mascot named Clyde who represents our versatility as students, and I was inspired to remake his image on the t-shirt. After going through multiple designs, I finally decided on a cute […]
Grammar is my daily bread and butter when I write or edit, but doesn’t play a role in my design as often. When I received the task to redesign an grammar course flyer for my design internship at MSU, I was super excited. Grammar isn’t usually considered a very interesting subject, so I wanted to […]
This is a mixed media piece created in Photoshop for a fantasy art context. The goal was to imagine a unique species of dragon and draw it in its natural habitat. As you can guess, my dragon had camouflage skills and very sticky toes. I was very excited when my dragon won third place in […]
Kristin Phillips: Portfolio 