Post 1 Introduction - Isabelle Legaspi

Self-Portrait, Illustrator

    Hello, I am Isabelle Legaspi, a Filipino student with Type 1 Diabetes pursuing a BFA degree with a concentration in graphic design. As a graphic designer, I prefer to create designs that are aestheically clean but also fun to interact with while also matching with the subject matter. I also enjoy fine art and exploring its different mediums. I took every opportunity to do so at this school by attending ceramics, printmaking and photography classes. I've also had my hand in drawing with graphite and charcoal, as well as painting in acrylic, gouache and especially watercolor (in high school.) An artist that inspires me is Kai K (Instagram @_dollgirls) who is a Hong Kong artist and graphic designer based in the US. I was first intrigued by her printmaking work and fell in love with her designs. 

Chewies, glucose gummies packaging design mockup

Key & Switch, mechanical keyboard magazine design mockup

Milk Chocolate, chocolate bar packaging design mockup

Mahal: double meaning, silkscreen print

Masks, prompt: covid, graphite drawing

 Susan Sontag Quotes: 

 "Photographs, which packages the world, seem to invite packaging. They are stuck in albums, framed and set on tables, tacked on walls, projected as slides. Newspapers and magazines feature them; cops alphabatize them; museums exhibit them; publishers compile them." 

     Photographs are everywhere, organized and displayed in so many different ways. Whether in albums, magazines or museums, they shape how we view the world by capturing and presenting it in a certain way. As a graphic design student with a new profound interest in packaging design, the word "packaging" stuck out to me. I had never thought of frames or the other ways photographs are displayed as packaging. 

 "Photographs really are experience captured, and the camera is the ideal arm of consciousness in its acquisitive mood." 

     Photographs allow us to freeze moments in time, turning experiences into something we can revisit. The camera acts like an extension of our awareness, helping us collect and preserve memories that might otherwise fade. It's almost like a way of holding onto the past, capturing emotions and details we might not even notice in the moment.