Zany Kelsey Punch
Contents Introduction
Chapter One: Minimalistic Triptych
Chapter Two: Tidying Up Art
Chapter Three: Twelve Train Station Icons
Chapter Four: Forbidden Book Covers
Chapter Five: 100 Interesting Things
Introduction My name is Kelsey Punch. I am a student at Flagler College, just now starting to learn the ropes of what I hope will be a long future in the Graphic Design industry. I am slightly zany, or unconventional, when I trying to come up with ideas and when executing projects. This portfolio showcases the first projects I have completed on Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop, as well as includes a collage project from a previous class.
Minimalistic Triptych Project Description: Write a story connecting three completely different concepts. Challenge: Create three images that tell the story without using words Solution: I created a triptych combining the concepts: Aspen Trees Victorian Architecture and Coral Reefs The triptych told the story, “One day I was walking through a forest of aspen trees. After walking for a while I found a Victorian style house. I walked up to the window, and when I looked inside I saw a coral reef.�
Tidying Up Art Project Description:
Challenge: Create a composition using Ursus Wehrli’s Technique of “Tidying Up Art” Solution: I chose to tidy up Gustav Klimt’s Death and Life. After researching the painting I found that the basic meaning of the painting was the circle of life. With this I created a mandala, which has a similar meaning. The circle of life theme in the original painting was continued through the creation of the mandala.
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Twelve Train Station Icons Project Description: Using Illustrator create a custom set of icons. Challenge: Develop a theme, iterate on initial sketches, and polish a complete icon set that’s perfect for clients, colleagues, or personal work. Solution: I created a set of icons for train stations trying to use a vintage theme. Which can be seen with the suitcases, benches, and telephone. These icons as a whole and individually can be used for train stations and travel.
Flat Black and White Icons
White on Black Icons
Forbidden Book Covers Project Description: Create a set of book coversfusing books from the Forbidden Book List, published by the same company, Challenge: Use artwork from 400ad to the mis-1800s to create the book covers Solution: I created book covers for A Separate Peace, As I Lay Dying, and The Sun Also Rises. I used different elements from the plots of each book to create a book cover that showed a small piece of what that book is about.
John Knowles (born Sept. 16, 1926, Fairmont, W.Va., U.S.—died Nov. 29, 2001, near Fort Lauderdale, Fla.), American author, who was best known for his first published novel, A Separate Peace (1959; filmed 1972). Most of his works are psychological examinations of characters caught in conflict between the wild and the pragmatic sides of their personalities.
A bestseller for more than thirty years, A Separate Peace is John Knowles’s crowning achievement and an undisputed American classic.
"A quietly vital and cleanly written novel that moves, page by page, towards a most interesting target." -- Truman Capote "Is he the successor to Salinger for whom we have been waiting so long?” -- Encounter. "A masterpiece." -- National Review.
John Knowles
Some of his other books include, Peace Breaks Out (1981) A Vein of Riches (1978) A Stolen Past (1983) and Indian Summer (1966)
Set at a boys’ boarding school in New England during the early years of World War II, A Separate Peace is a harrowing and luminous parable of the dark side of adolescence. Gene is a lonely, introverted intellectual. Phineas is a handsome, taunting, daredevil athlete. What happens between the two friends one summer, like the war itself, banishes the innocence of these boys and their world.
"I think it is the best-written, best-designed and most moving novel I have read in many years. Beginning with a tiny incident among ordinary boys, it ends by being as deep and as big as evil itself." -- Aubrey Menen
A Separate Peace
An American classic and great bestseller for over thirty years, A Separate Peace is timeless in its description of adolescence during a period when the entire country was losing its innocence to the second world war.
A Separate Peace john knowles
William Faulkner
Some of his other books include, A Rose for Emily (1930) and Light In August (1932)
As I Lay Dying is Faulkner’s harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Narrated in turn by each of the family members —including Addie herself—as well as others the novel ranges in mood, from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. Considered one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama, As I Lay Dying is a true 20th-century classic.
William Faulkner
Born in New Albany, Mississippi, in 1897. Much of his early work was poetry, but he became famous for his novels set in the American South, frequently in his fabricated Yoknapatawpha County, with works that included The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying and Absalom, Absalom! His controversial 1931 novel Sanctuary was turned into two films, 1933's The Story of Temple Drake as well as a later 1961 project. Faulkner was awarded the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature and ultimately won two Pulitzers and two National Book Awards as well. He died on July 6, 1962.
“He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and s hort stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.” —Ralph Ellison
As I Lay Dying
“I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” —William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying
“No man ever put more of his heart and soul into he written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.” —Eudora Welty
As I Lay Dying william faulkner
Some of his other books include A Farewell to Arms (1929) The Old Man and the Sea (1952) and In Our Time (1925)
"Some of the finest and most restrained writing that this generation has produced." -- New York World "An absorbing, beautifully and tenderly absurd, heart-breaking narrative…It is a truly gripping story, told in lean, hard athletic prose…magnificent." -- The New York Times
Ernest Hemingway
born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen. After the United States entered the First World War, he joined a volunteer ambulance unit in the Italian army. Serving at the front, he was wounded,was decorated by the Italian Government, and spent considerabletime in hospitals. After his return to the United States, he became a reporter for Canadian and American newspapers and was soon sent back to Europe to cover such events as the Greek Revolution
The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961)
The quintessential novel of the Lost Generation, The Sun Also Rises is one of Ernest Hemingway's masterpieces and a classic example of his spare but powerful writing style. A poignant look at the disillusionment and angst of the post-World War I generation, the novel introduces two of Hemingway's most unforgettable characters: Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley. The story follows the flamboyant Brett and the hapless Jake as they journey from the wild nightlife of 192 0s Paris to the brutal bullfighting rings of Spain with a motley group of expatriates. It is an age of moral bankruptcy, spiritual dissolution, unrealized love, and vanishing illusions. First published in 1926, The Sun Also Rises helped to establish Hemingway as one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century.
The Sun Also Rises ernest hemingway
100 Interesting Things Project Description: Come up with a list of 100 things you find interesting, you will later make collages using elements from that list. Challenge: Using the list of 100 things create collages incorporating at late three elements into each. Solution: I created five different collages that each have completely different elements, but still belong to a series. Each collage used maps to create continutity.
Minimalistic Triptych Project Description
Challenge Solution
Kelsey Punch kpunch500@flagler.edu