Design detour, sixth and final part

March 24, 2012June 24, 2020 | Anna Cull

Student project to design an infographic poster. Images used in the vehicle stacks are courtesy of the Internet.

Student project to redesign a bus timetable.

Client project: logo design and poster for Willie’s Open Mic. Student project: branding campaign (newspaper ads, mail out and promotional brochure).

Student project: photography (and digital) — making use of my illustrations.

Student project: Fairtrade Fortnight branding campaign — logo, coffee cups and poster. The tee-shirt was just for fun. This was the final project for the D&A graphic design course.

Design detour, part five

March 23, 2012June 24, 2020 | Anna Cull

Student project: Chef logo, labels and magazine advertising campaign. Background images used in the ads are courtesy of the Internet.

Student project to design the logos, labels and menu (among other things) for a fictional bar and brewery. My campaign evolved from the idea of the Old Mill being a converted textile mill. The illustrations were inspired by the textiles of William Morris.

Client project: logo for Access Broadcast News, a media-monitoring company in Wellington. Website by Ocular.

Student project: photography, incorporating various drawing projects.

One of my favourite projects was a booklet based on Stefan Sagmeister’s ‘Things I have learned in my life so far’ book. My lesson: “You don’t have to be like everybody else”. ELSE was written using an LED torch, a tripod and an eight-second exposure.

P.S. You can read more about this booklet in my more recent posts: WORDS, WORDS, WORDS

Design detour, part three

March 20, 2012September 15, 2013 | Anna Cull

Student project to design a cover for a book about the beat poets. We were directed to use found images and a limited colour palette. I used paper collage, deconstructed poetry, an acetone printing technique and watercolour.

Anna Cull Punch editorial — Peer interview and editorial – two-page spread.

Anna Cull Punch photos — The original photos used for the illustration.

Student project: peer interview and editorial suitable for IdN magazine. The editorial had to include a particular style of digital illustration, combining photography and watercolour. My classmate, Punch, is a very talented illustrator from Thailand.

EARTHQUAKE February 22nd, 2011

Christchurch hadn’t really stopped shaking for months, ever since September’s 7.1 quake. But this one was different and took us by surprise. Again. It was officially a 6.3 magnitude earthquake and yet it did much more damage: 185 people died and the Canterbury landscape changed forever.

Anna Cull editorial detail — Editorial detail.

Student project: an editorial about my experience of the Christchurch earthquakes. D&A is one of many buildings damaged and imprisoned in the Red Zone cordon and has now been added to the city’s ‘partial demolish’ list.

Earthquake expressive type tee-shirt design.

Design detour, part two

March 19, 2012December 9, 2013 | Anna Cull

On September 4th, 2010, at 4.35 in the early morning, we were shaken awake by a terrifying 7.1 magnitude earthquake. It was scary, destructive, unsettling, inconvenient and ongoing. Worse was to come but we didn’t know that at the time. After a while, we were back at D&A, continuing with our studies and doing our best to ignore the cracks.

School project: type as image exercise.

School project: anti-butt-litter billboard. The campaign had to be positive and focus on anti-not-thinking rather than anti-smoking. The illustration shows Christchurch’s Anglican Cathedral in happier times (before earthquakes damaged it beyond repair).

Anna Cull pattern3 — Inspired by an illustration by Tatiana Arocha.

Anna Cull pattern4 — Inspired by an illustration by Nicholas Di Genova.

Another couple of hand-drawn patterns (a dozen different patterns in total — all A3, drawn using pigment liner pens). Earlier this year, for photography, we were asked to make use of some of our patterns…

These made it into last Friday’s D&A graduate exhibition. One day soon, I would love to try my hand at textile design.