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Beyond Color: Design Approaches For Conveying Mood And Music Genre In Album Covers For Color Blind Accessibility, Victoria Erdmann

Senior Honors Theses

In the music industry, album cover design serves as a pivotal visual medium that not only acts as a marketing tool but can also shape a listener’s perception of the music. Designing album covers that are accessible to color blind individuals presents a unique challenge in an industry where color plays a significant role in design choices. This thesis examines how color vision deficiency impacts the perception of album art and defines four approaches that designers can take to ensure inclusive visual communication. By analyzing how contrast, typography, texture, and imagery can effectively convey genre and mood, designers can create …

Craving A New Look: Rebrand Of Cafe Crepes, Joan Yun

Graphic Communication

Cafe Crepes, located in the heart of downtown San Luis Obispo, is an established business that has been serving customers for over 10 years. However, despite their prime location and experience, Cafe Crepes often goes unnoticed and struggles to attract attention from the community due to their poor brand image and visibility. Cafe Crepes' current brand image is outdated and visually uninviting, primarily due to their existing logo, color scheme, and typeface. Additionally, Cafe Crepes suffers from low brand visibility due to minimal and inconsistent advertising efforts.

The goal of this senior project is to transform Cafe Crepes' brand image …

The Process Of Creating A Visual Identity System From Scratch, Daisy L. Macias

2024 Fall Honors Capstone Projects - Archive

A visual identity system is a collection of design elements that work together to maintain consistency through various applications. A study of iconic brands clarifies how a design is successfully executed. This creative project began with selecting an industry, writing a creative brief, curating mood boards for visual research, brainstorming a brand name, creating a set of graphics that aid the brand identity, and implementing these graphics together to create a successful visual identity system. For this project, an indie cinema was selected, and based on existing visual research for this industry, the design style referenced contemporary art. The final …

Rick’S Dwelling, Meghan Mcmullan

Gandy Dancer Archives

Medium: digital collage

Ladycave, Meghan Mcmullan

Gandy Dancer Archives

Medium: digital collage

The Magician’S Lounge, Meghan Mcmullan

Gandy Dancer Archives

Medium: digital collage

The Jester Deity, Meghan Mcmullan

Gandy Dancer Archives

Medium: digital collage

Breaking The Curse: Rebranding The Sacramento Kings, Colby Sundeen

Graphic Communication

The Sacramento Kings basketball team has a terrible reputation throughout the National Basketball Association (NBA) and has suffered a massive loss in their revenue and audience because of it. Even though they are the oldest team in the NBA and are based in the capital of California, which is the largest market in the world for basketball, they are consistently overshadowed by all of the other teams in California as well as most of the other teams in the NBA. This stems from their brand reputation which has slowly and consistently declined since the early 2000’s. Brand reputation is one …

Vote Quote, Abigail Derouard

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This text-based poster features an impactful quote from Sharon Salzburg to inspire people to recognize how important their voices are in shaping the future. It stresses the value of voting as an expression of commitment to oneself, their community, the country, and the world.

Your Choice Can Make A Difference, Abigail Derouard

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

A poster designed to spread awareness of the power people have in their votes with the message "Your Choice Can Make A Difference." It's a reminder that your decisions have an impact and can shape communities and promote change, especially through voter participation.

Graphic Medicine, Leesha Coleman, Rachel F. Fenske, Quincy Roundtree

Creative Arts & Storytelling for Health and Wellness Summit

Attendees will get an overview of graphic medicine, hear about the history of graphic medicine at the Charles M. Baugh Biomedical Library, learn about the artistic process of creating comics, and hear about uses for graphic medicine in educational and clinical settings.

Ballot Box Poster, Sara Reisdorf

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This poster was made for Art 480 Advanced Graphic Design. It is an illustrative poster, intended to encourage people to vote.

Every Vote Counts, Sara Reisdorf

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This poster was made for Art 480 Advanced Graphic Design. It is a type only poster, intended to encourage people to vote.

Vote Boat, Alyson Bosch

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This graphic is meant to encourage and excite people about the election and voting. It explores the concept of typography as imagery to convey a positive feeling to viewers as they analyze the pun behind it.

Use Your Voice, Alyson Bosch

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This graphic is meant to encourage and excite people about using their voices and exercising their right to vote. It explores the concept of graphics without typography to convey the power of speaking for what you believe in.

Use Your Voice, Angela Brayton

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

A non-partisan poster intended to encourage viewers to go out and vote.

Filled In Ballot, Angela Brayton

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

Non-partisan poster made with the intent to encourage viewers to vote. It shows two ovals like those seen on a ballot with one scribbled in as though someone just voted.

Get Out The Vote, Gyuri Kim

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This is an illustration poster, which only uses illustrations. The message of this poster is to make people vote for the election.

Three Characters And Me(Me): Positioning Popular Culture To Unpack Emerging Teacher Identity, Gillian E. Mertens, Henry (Cody) C. Miller

Dialogue: The Interdisciplinary Journal of Popular Culture and Pedagogy

In this article we narrate an instructional practice we implemented in two different teacher education courses that facilitated conversations about teacher identity through the use of fictional characters who were educators. This practice served two purposes in our course work: firstly, this activity presents students with an opportunity to demonstrate their media interests and career goals; secondly, this activity provides a quick, baseline assessment of how aspiring teachers view their profession and future practice. We detail student responses to this activity and consider how their choices of fictional educators fit into broader patterns we see in popular culture, specifically depictions …

Go Vote Usa Poster, Alex Midgarden

Get Out The Vote Poster Exhibit

This is a typographic rendition of the United States of America. The poster uses the Constitution to create the outline of the USA.