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Faeble, Branding Design, Digital mock up
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| Engulfed, Digital Illustration |
I am a graphic designer and illustrator, whose work focuses on the fantastical and whimsical elements of my ideas. I enjoy using vivid color, and concepts that explore realities that are dreamlike and surreal. A heavy source of inspiration for my work are classic novels such as pagan mythology and horror classics. My work, especially my illustration work, brings real life issues such as isolation, grief, and love through an LGBT lens. My biggest inspiration at the moment is the graphic designer Caroline Dietl, who does branding for alternative bands along with her own personal design work. Her designs consist of dark colors, heavy use of texture, and mixed techniques such as creating 3d models to use as graphics for her posters. We both share a passion for the world of gothic music, and representing it through our work. The designer's interest and personality shines through what is usually a very sanitized medium, which inspires me to explore more stylistic approaches to my graphic design.
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| Isolation, Caroline Dietl, digital poster |
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| Black No.6, Caroline Dietl, digital poster |
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| Holding Onto Love, Caroline Dietl, Digital poster |
"A now notorious first fall into alienation, habituating people to abstract the world into printed words, is supposed to have engendered that surplus of Faustian energy and psychic damage needed to build modern, inorganic societies."
Here, Sontag is saying that photography (and other forms of abstraction) has led us to view the world through mediated lenses, causing a sense of disconnection and driving the development of modern, impersonal societies. We interact with the world more through representations (photos, words) than through direct, lived experience, which can lead to both an increased drive for progress and a sense of psychological dissonance. The idea of isolation, alienation, and detachment from reality, are all subjects that I pull into my own work, and is the basis of my thesis. Though my own work represents more of a detachment from the whole physical world, into a fantastical one detached from reality (less so the detachment of the old world moving into the modern world of technology), there is a shared idea of derealization and the push for progression past our limits.
"Photographed images do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it, miniatures of reality that anyone can make or acquire."
I like to think that my work represents small pieces of my own reality that can be perceived in different viewpoints, with my use of color and abstraction.
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