Nancy Skolos is a graphic designer and a photographer that mainly works alongside her husband in creating posters that have been displayed in many different admirable Graphic Design Exhibitions, however, in 2006 she ventured out and created her very first book. This book “Typography, Image, Message” is Nancy Skolos’ first book. This book is a…
Nancy Skolos works almost entirely in print work. By using a combination of 3D physical sculptures, photography, and graphic design and editing, she creates beautiful posters that can be used in many different ways. In this piece she used her skills to create an advertisement poster for the Lyceum Competition. Nancy has been known to…
Nancy Skolos, works and designs alongside her husband Thomas Wedell. The vast majority of her projects are in partnership with him and aim to combine and collaborate photography and graphic design. She makes many collaged, three dimensional works of art that take influence from modern day architecture, technology, and paintings. Making geometric illusions and photographing…
I saw this poster hanging outside the elevator in the lobby of my building. The poster is very basic and bland leading me to not like it. It is very straight forward and not very eye catching to a viewer. The title being sideways is confusing and hard to read. The information on the side…
Chandramukhi, which roughly translates to “moon-faced beauty”, is a Tamil movie directed by Vasudevan Peethambharan in 2005. It is about a woman named Ganga who suffers from dissociative identity disorder (DID). Her alter, or other personality is Chandramukhi who is a dancer hellbent on taking revenge on the king Vettaiyan. I chose this movie because…
Sivaji is a Tamil movie directed by Shankar Shanmugam in 2007. This movie features famous actor Rajinikanth, and the title sequence was created by Soundarya Rajinikanth. I chose this project because I listened to a lot of songs from this movie and I felt nostalgic. The movie is about a wealthy software engineer who tries…
Soundarya Rajinikanth, born Shaku Bai Rao Gaikwad, is a graphic designer based in India. She was born in Chennai on September 20th, 1984 to Indian film producer Latha Rangachari and actor Rajinikanth. Rajinikanth, Soundarya’s father, is a very well-known actor due to his exaggerated mannerisms and roles in many famous Tamil movies. He has won…
One of my favorite and most recent projects designed by Qingyu Wu is her 2021 Album Design titled “Neo Era Romance 新世纪人类浪漫主义” for Modern Sky. This piece was designed for the musician Fu Han’s first album release. The project was a collaboration between Qingyu Wu, Fu Han, Sun Yi, and Frederic Kevorkian. The album design…
Changsha, China– Known for its deep historical significance to the Hunan Province and its large and boisterous machinery construction industry, this busy and mechanical town was once the spot where Qingyu Wu spent her childhood summers studying and learning about design and typography. The elusive designer was born in Changsha and spent most of…
For my wild design I chose the West Side Story Soundtrack album cover, in this cover they take inspiration from the original soundtrack cover art and they take inspiration from the movie’s premise/plot also. In this musical, many of the musical numbers and moments between the two leading characters happen on a fire escape; this…
I saw this sign when I was out eating at CAVA the other day and I really just did not like it. It just seemed very immature in my opinion. First off, the sign is has nothing to do with the setting. This is a shopping center filled with food options, it doesn’t make sense…
For this assignment, I chose to look at Dreamworks Motorsports as having wild design. Dreamworks Motorsports is a car shop located close to my home in Roxboro, North Carolina, and they are mainly known for “wrapping” cars with custom wraps. They are a small shop, but somehow they have done so many cars for big…
For this assignment, I chose an American industrial designer by the name of Donald Deskey, who was born on November 23, 1894 in Blue Earth, Minnesota. As a student, Deskey attended three different institutions. He went to the University of California at Berkeley, and he also was a student at the Mark Hopkins Institute of…
While I was away at school, my Mom has been “revamping” the front porch of our home. When I came home the other day, I saw that she had added new house numbers beside our front door. We use to have our house numbers on a post in the front flower bed. The letters were…
This album cover really caught my eye as I was rummaging through old records in an antique shop. I was drawn to the vibrant oranges, blue, and pink colors. These colors stand out against the thick black strokes of hair and finer details of the people. Having the artist’s name, “Melanie” in white, established a…