Akil GrantSophomore portfolio

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Basic Typography Jason Heuer

Book Covers: design book covers for novelizations of popular tv shows

T-Shirts: create T-shirts that reference a specific typeface

in an appealing way

Editorial Design: given a specific article, design and lay out two spreads to display the information aesthetically

Poster: design a typographic poster that illustrates a specific quote

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Computers in the Studio Viveca Diaz

Clothing line: develop a logo, as well as branding solutions for a fictional clothing company

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Originality Adrienne Leban

Draw With Me: Given a half-filled book, the artist fills the remaining pages by incorporating the existing images.

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Visual Literacy Richard Wilde

Visual Diary: Record each day for a month. Address each day as a whole or simply the most important event.

GIRLFRIEND ON HER GODDAMN PERIOD

FRIDAYSTOPPED BYNYPD FOR

BEING BLACK

HURRICANE SANDY PREP

HURRICANE SANDY IN GW

SKIPPED AD CAUSE JACK MAKES ME

HATE LIFE

BUMPY ASSTRAIN RIDE

HARD PLACE

The Line Project: Illustrate a selection of emotions and states of being using the format of the line.

ROCK

The Sound Problem: Graphically represent the sounds of the topics indicated without literal reference.

Flesh n’ Bones Breath of Life

Time Money

Stable Relationship Living quarters

Ego: Depict your goals, as well as your reflections on

yourself in the form of mathematic equations.

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AN IDEAL ME

ME IN 5 YEARS

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Graphic Design Frank Young

Paula Scher: Weekly reinerpretations, and rearrangements of a vectored Paula Scher poster.

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Transforrmation: depict an object in a way that clearly demonstrates a visual change

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Drawing John Ruggeri

Collage: given a selection of objects and books, create collages that aren’t cliche

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Personal Artwork

CS6: an assortment of pieces done using programs from the Adobe Creative Suite

Special thanks to my family and its insanity, which literally and figuratively decorates these pages, as well as the amazing faculty at SVA.