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Amen To The Break - Spotify Playlist Vinyl Cover Project, Jonathan Hanham

Illustration Student Work

In this assignment, I decided to create a Spotify playlist with songs in the Liquid DnB/Ambient Jungle genres, and using the "depressive breakcore" visual aesthetic that is popular online. The name "Amen to the Break" refers to the "Amen Break" which is a popular drum beat sample used in many songs in the DnB and Jungle music genres. The illustration is meant to portray the chaotic yet brain-numbing effect that the harsh and fast yet soothing music has on the listener which can put them in a trance-like state.

Electric Fall-Out Album Vinyl Cover, Daniel Cruz-Guevara

Illustration Student Work

An album cover for a playlist containing songs from both the band Fall Out Boy and the band the Electric Mayhem. The album cover depicts original characters dressed in the style and outfits of the Electric Mayhem (Dr. Teeth and Janice) and Fall Out Boy (Patrick Stump and the boy from the cover of American Beauty/American Psycho).

Crush - Vinyl Cover, Eli Palomino

Illustration Student Work

Album cover for a playlist of my own. Color palette takes inspiration from 70s-80s diners.

Songs To Scream To, Camille Walker

Illustration Student Work

This work depicts a woman with her brain levitating out of her head. Tv static leaks from her eyes and her mouth. This work was made as an album cover for a small playlist.

Wish To Be, Try To Be, Madelyn Selong

Life in Letters: A Typographic Poster Exhibition Featuring Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dimensions: 30 inches wide, 36 inches tall
Inkjet on matte paper, printed on both sides

Artist's narrative:

Letter 21 details the events Paul Laurence Dunbar experienced following the Chicago World's Fair. Dunbar writes to Frederick Douglass, whom he had made friends with at the World's Fair after reading his poems there. The beginning of the letter tells the story of Dunbar’s gratitude toward Douglass as he promises to try to be worthy of the interest Douglass took in him. The end of the letter has a less positive tone, with Dunbar reflecting on some unfortunate events that occurred at the …

Nervous Conditions, Laurel Grelle

Life in Letters: A Typographic Poster Exhibition Featuring Paul Laurence Dunbar

Dimensions: 30 inches wide, 36 inches tall
Inkjet on matte paper, printed on both sides
Work displayed here as a diptych

Artist's narrative: Letter 174 is addressed to Paul Laurence Dunbar sent from his dear family friend H.A. Tobey. Toward the end of his life, Dunbar struggled to cope with his tuberculosis and turned to alcohol to ease his pain. As his condition worsened, Tobey began to worry about him and wrote him this moving letter of optimism expressing his sympathy regarding Paul living with a painful and deadly disease. The mirroring is showing the side effects of the disease …

Vinyl Cover, Lauryn Harden

Illustration Student Work

For this assignment, I wanted to tell a story of a girl unraveling the stories of the abandon kingdom she's entering. I went a surreal, atmospheric theme for this playlist so I can capture the curios yet ominous journey that the character is about to face. The song that I choose to reflect the illustration was White Palace by Christopher Larkin. The setting has a monochromatic scheme of grays while the character had dulled out colors to show that she's out of place. The character is about to cross the bridge, making her way towards the palace.

Ascend Out Of Your Body, Julie Cheung

Illustration Student Work

An illustration of how it feels to listen to euphoric music that is linked with the Spotify code. All the rhythms and beats come out from her body in forms of color consuming her as she falls deeper within relaxation.

Ddx217 Images For Advertising Example 1, Sae University College

Exemplars

This work is for Project 2 of DDX172. Students had to create a themed portfolio of Illustrator work utilising different techniques. The work shows masterful and successful illustration work. The student was not fazed and went out of their comfort zone.

Must I Be Fixed, Sean Amaso

Illustration Student Work

"Must I Be Fixed" goes into detail about my journey with my autistic diagnosis. It also touches on how it affects my life (past, present, and future).

Climate Change Zine, Taylor Ash

Illustration Student Work

This is an Infographic Zine I designed describing the issue of Climate change for my advanced illustration class.

Dream A Dream, Qixuan Hou

Illustration Student Work

design the vinyl cover of my playlist

Ai In The College Classroom: From Communication To Animation, Stefanie Powers, Erika Grodzki, Gary Carlin, Hung Chum Kao

Faculty and Staff Publications & Presentations

No abstract provided.

Adhd And The Struggles, Noah Kinkaid

Illustration Student Work

This zine is about the struggles with having ADHD. The zine is meant to give a little insight to readers who may not have ADHD about the many difficulties an individual with ADHD may go through.

Candy Poisoning And You!, Kaylah Fraser

Illustration Student Work

A zine that dispels the myths around candy poisoning and what we can do to combat the issues going on around Halloween.

Raising Frogs: A Basic Guide, Kaci Pederson

Illustration Student Work

This zine details the process and essentials of raising tadpoles into frogs.

The Anxiety Within Us, Zaria Ratchford

Illustration Student Work

This zine focuses on G.A.D. (Generalized Anxiety Disorder) in the black community, more specifically with black women.

Hacking The Library Exhibition Panels, Sally Brown, Jackie Andrews, Matthew Conboy, Ruth Yang, Trudy Trudy Borenstein- Sugiura, Shan Cawley, Chantel Foretich, Xue'er Gao, Ryan Lewis, Robin Miller, Imari Nacht, Chris Revelle, Erin Tapley

Faculty & Staff Scholarship

The hacker ethos in the positive sense is about the ability to deconstruct and reconstruct information systems. Hacking starts with reconceptualizing libraries. Libraries are now beyond the book. As libraries evolve into a new sort of space --still a space for research, learning and study-- but also for community engagement and collaboration, library exhibits present a unique opportunity for both collaborating exhibitors and library users. Artists engage with libraries creatively through artist residencies, installations, using discarded library materials in their work, collaborative workshops, digital collections remixing, performances and more. Hacking the Library will present artwork that highlights the intersecting values …

Reading Mary Margaret Stewart, Miriam Glatfelter

Schmucker Art Catalogs

Curated by Miriam Glatfelter ’24, the inaugural Susan ’77 and Joseph Biernat ‘75 Intern, this exhibition examines the literary themes in works of art from the collection of Mary Margaret Stewart (1931-2021), a beloved Professor Emerita of English at Gettysburg College (1959-1996). Reading Mary Margaret Stewart features prints of notable authors, including Virginia Woolf and Edgar Alan Poe, as well as works that allude to stories, such as Mark Twain’s “The Notorious Jumping Frog of Calaveras County.” Glatfelter not only considers these various references to fiction and poetry, but she also invites the viewer to read the works in …

If We Were Fiction: Insect-Human Stories, Isabella Delaney

Independent Study Project (ISP) Collection

This creative project delves into the nonlinear, interconnected web of insect-human relations in Nepal. Through exploring humans’ perceptions and stories of insects, this work intends to remedy the limits of traditional entomological knowledge, which forgets the ubiquitous reality of insects as more than biological and ecological agents. Insects are social, economic, and ethical “characters” in our lives, and recognizing this opens up possibilities for connection, hope, and evolution in this world. The potential of the mundane, the forgettable, pulses within humans’ unique attitudes toward insects and the forces that shaped them. This potential is represented in the final product of …