Rebeca Méndez collaborated with Chee Salette, an architect, and landscape architect, to create a memorial in Tucson, Arizona, United States. This Memorial honors the 2011 shooting of the victims and survivors that wanted to engage in democracy at Representative Gabrielle Giffords’ “Congress on your Corner”. The gunman fired thirty-three rounds, killing six and wounding eleven…
Rebeca Méndez was commissioned by LA Metro to create a mural for the Expo Line/Crenshaw Station. Alongside local artisans, they created a beautiful glass mosaic mural ten feet by ninety-six feet in 2019. The title of the mural is At Same Time, a portrait of an entire day in Los Angeles, California. Between January and…
“Méndez has committed to diversity and inclusion, and she is a role model for aspiring young women designers across Latin America.” – UCLA, Design Media Arts, 2022, https://dma.ucla.edu/faculty/profiles/?ID=32 Rebeca Méndez was born in Mexico City in 1962. She immigrated to California, United States, in 1980. There, Rebeca graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Design…
The title sequence of Venom is a movie featuring an anti-hero character from Marvel Comics. Moreover, there are the three design elements in the title sequence that caught my eye: the color palette, illustrations, typography, and music. The color palette of this title sequence is composed of three colors: red, black, and white. The use…
The wild design I found was the packaging of Funko Pop keychains. It is similar to the Funko Pop collectibles. I think it would be more fun if the packaging were designed to the colors or symbols of the figures. For example, the packaging keychain of the Darth Vader figure can be in the shape…
The wild design I found was the Dark Chocolate Lover’s 85% Cacao of Trader Joe’s. I love the product, but the design fits the smooth, fruity dark chocolate. It is simple and elegant. Additionally, I thought it was clever that they used a leaf to place the “85% cacao” because it is creative; it seems…
The trope I chose is the Titanic original movie poster, one of Hollywood’s most iconic films. The movie, released in 1997, tells a story of an epic fiction romance based on a true tragedy. The Titanic, or the Royal Mail Ship Titanic, was one of the worst marine time disasters in history (USA Today). The…