The Marble Staircase, Public Library

Artist: Bernard Hall (English, 1859-1935)

Date: 1925

Medium: Oil on canvas

Harlequin

Artist: Eduard Remi De Clercq (Belgian, 1910 -1996)

Date: 20th century

Medium: Oil on canvas

Dr. David Hoinski, teaching associate professor in the Philosophy department here at WVU, recently commissioned some flyer designs from me for two events that the department was hosting.

I am very thankful to Dr. Hoinski for the opportunity to design these flyers, I don't get to do much graphic design anymore so these were a fun way for me to flex my design muscles.

The most recent event was "War and Forgiveness: Possible Futures" with Dr. Viktoras Bachmetjevas, PHD. Dr. Bachemetjevas is a research scholar in the Baltic Studies Program at the Yale MacMillian Center

For this assignment for Design For Multimedia, the only instruction we received was “make a gif.” It was allowed to be of anything using any method of animation. I chose to create this rotoscoped neon animation from the Oblivion music video.

I have very complicated feelings about Grimes that we do not need to get into here, but Visions is probably my favorite album of all time. Each time I listen to it, all these ideas for illustrations or scenes from movies that don’t exist yet flood my mind. This was an attempt to translate at least some of those feelings into something visual.

Though this took me an insane amount of hours slaving away on my Wacom, it was fun for me. I miss being in art classes.

Way back when, in my Freshman year of 2019, I volunteered for the Bernie Sanders 2020 campaign through the WVU Mountaineers for Bernie club. I was in charge of graphic design, and was charged with making a pin, pictured below.