Graphic Design, Illustration & Photography

Samantha Stokes2014

Massey University in Wellington 2012 - 2015Montana State University 2014 Bachelor of Visual Communication Design, major in Graphic Design.

(406) 580 7591samanthastokes@hotmail.co.nz

Promotion

Massey Alpine Club Snow trips 2013

Poster and flyer design for Massey Alpine Club Wellington. This is material for two separate alpine trip weekends. Alpine was trying to convey its fun and carefree attitude, and raise awareness of the club as some-where for alpine enthusiasts, somewhere for people learning to ski or board, and also as a group of people just wanting to have fun.

Design concept, photography, typographic illustrations and graphic execution.

Promotion

Massey Surf Club trips 2013

Poster concept design for Massey University Surf Club. The club was trying to raise general awareness and portray itself as ‘a fun way to learn to surf and visit cool places with rad people.’ This concept gives option for varied photo backgrounds and the distinctive type makes the series recognisable as such. This was printed by MUSC in a range of eight different image backgrounds.

Design concept, photography, graphic execution.

Brand Identity redesign, promotion and packaging.

Ernest Adams Hungus Cookies2013

‘Hungus’ being a New Zealand/Australian colloquial term referring to being hungry; needing food.

Project created along with another design student for 222.215 Brand Communication at CoCA MUW. We looked at the zeitgeist to find a range of macro trends that we could jump on in creating this redesign. Focusing smaller and local was one thing we decided was important, as was creating a brand that used humour as well as feeling honest and relatable. All of the flavour varieties have focus ingredients that are sourced in a certain province of NZ, along with most of the other ingredients being sourced locally and with a focus on natural growing methods. We wanted to target a wide audience, and wanted the brand to contrast from its competitiors both visually and tonally. A quirky hand drawn design style, simple colour palette and humourous tone does this.

A record of some of our process work is also at http://hunguscookies.tumblr.com

Research, Brand concept, development, typographic illustration, graphic output.

Identity Design

Fresh Flicks Film Festival 2014

A forced connection style logo, focusing on communicating the idea of ‘movie watching in a outdoors setting’ identity of the Fresh Flicks festival. This logo also communicates the individuality and uniqueness of this event. The main element of the logo illustrating a non film related symbol communicates the ideas behind the festival, while also being a more identifiable and distinctive brand identity within the world of cinema and film. The bird is a Tui chick, native to New Zealand, which brings in the provincial focus of the festival. The giving back to the community aspect of the festival can also be drawn into the use of a bird, seen as bringing a greater focus on nature and the outdoors in the place the event is held. Sticking solely with a single tone logo gives opportunities for it to be used with a wide variety of media on different surfaces in a range of ways, and also makes it color flexible.

Research, concept creation, development, graphic execution.

Promotion

Refreshingly Different Films 2014

Poster design for the Fresh Flicks Film festival. I wanted to communicate the quirkiness of the festival, and also create a poster that would stand out in a visually inundated space. I created two poster varieties, to link in with the duality of the double screenings of the festival, and also to create double image interest, two ideas communicating the same theme. This work was created for GDSN492 at MSU.

Graphic concept, development, photography, typographic illustration and graphic execution.

Print media

Fresh Flicks 2014 2014

Film Programme and Festival Passes. Developing on the visual identity developed in the logo and brand design, I created a programme and festival passes for Fresh Flicks 2014. Going with the outdoors setting of the festival I wanted an airy and spacious feeling in the design work, but also for it to be quirky, approachable and fun. The paper of the programme is tactile and matte feeling. The wood of the passes makes them durable and a great keepsake from the festival, while also linking to the outdoors nature of the festival. This would be locally sourced wood (like the food and beverages and the films themselves), which is great for the support local NZ theme of the festival.

Concept, graphic direction, development, photography, editorial layout, typographic illustration, graphic execution.

T Shirt and hang tag design

Spitting Feathers 2014 Hand stencilled spray paint design. This work was created around depicting the conflict between nature and industry. I wanted to convey a sense of angst, but in an unexpected and visually appealing way. Design completed as work for GDSN224 at Montana State University.

Exploration, graphic concept, stencil creation, graphic execution

Twitter Feed

Co.Design Business + Innovation

2014

Design completed as work for 224 Graphic Design at MSU. Fast Company runs this twitter feed, and I wanted to build off their clean and graphic design style in creating a dynamic twitter feed that caught the eye using only typographical tools. These were three different concepts, in which I tried to communicate three very different design styles.

Concept, development, layout design.

Typographical Illustrations

Today Will Be Grand,A Great Outdoors,As Wild as the Ocean 2013/2014

Vector illustration, cut on black matt vinyl as a window sticker.Hand Illustrations in gouache on Black Series watercolour paper 495x345mm.

Typographical design, gouche illustration, adobe illustrator to laser cut.

Typographical Illustration

Yin &Yang2014

Gouche and ink on butcher paper.The idea that started this illustra-tion came from a short phrase in a wonderful letter written to me, and I developed it from there, into this work.

“Spend time with friends but save time for you too. Work hard on the things that matter but save time for the fun stuff, and do some relaxing too. Its all about the Yin and Yang“

Concept, hand illustration.

Personal Illustration

Hipster Cheetah2013

Ink pen on Black Series 495x345mm,Digital painting and collage.

Concept, hand illustration, combo with digital illustration.

Personal Illustration

A delicate wee thing

2014

Ink pen on Strathmore Watercolour, 200 series, 11x15 in.

Concept, hand illustration

Illustration, personal project

Portrait2013

Silhouette illustration in indian ink on Black Series watercolor paper, 495x345mm.

Concept, hand illustration.

Photography 2013 - 2014

Personal photography of and on various adventures. Surfing at Castle Point & Muriwai, North I, New Zealand.Snowboarding at Bridgerbowl, Bozeman, MT.Kitesurfing at Rangiputa beach, North I, New Zealand.