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Hi! I’m Evan Loraine, a freshman animation major from St. Louis MO. For the longest time I thought I knew what I wanted to do with my life, but I began to realize how much the media I consumed affected me personally. Even in just the year leading up to my enrollment I was watching shows and playing games that were fundamentally changing the way I saw the world. I decided I wanted to try my best to give that to others, so I returned to the search for colleges and began binge studying the fundamentals of art and animation to catch up. While I’ve made considerable progress I still have a lot to learn. I’ve done a lot of concept art and storyboards, but I have yet to put myself to the test on a full scale project, though I intend to soon. My hope is to, in due time, be capable of using art and animation with enough skill to be able to convey emotion effectively.

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on IM 150 Posters as Designer

The 88 students in IM 150, a design fundamentals course, were assigned a poster series in which each student chose a topic that was of personal interest, an exciting event or socially important issue. The students rocked the house; seen in the totallity, the students’ diverse voices and beautiful final solutions are a symphony of visual communication. In this attached selection, of many other excellent poster projects, the various aspects of the rubric are exemplified. The students were tasked to design an eye-catching design experience, which would be viewed from a distance, with the following criteria: • Create a clever concept and call to action (see if you can find the concept in the Chi-Town Blues Festival Poster) • Make connotative art which referenced the visual venacular of the subject matter applied with the elements of design (shape, line, texture, space, size, value), or drawing skills. • Adhere to a a grid (and consider breaking the grid). • Communicate to a specific audience. • Select a palette from the color harmonies. • Organize all of these elements into a dynamic relationship that activatesthe principles of design (balance, contrast, emphasis, focal point, rhythm, unity, and the Gestalt theory). • Finally, they applied their work to an environmental wall—an expresion of place—which supported the original concept, and sustained communication with the audience. Enjoy! IM 150 Instructors