This past summer, a new trend surfaced online called the #VogueChallenge. In short, it was a creative way for BIPOC to showcase their work (in modeling, beauty, art, etc.) through imagery using the famed publication as a template during the height of the #BlackLivesMatter movement.
Read morePoster: Red Robin (YUM!)
Project: Serif Vs. Sans Serif Effectiveness in Advertising
Type: School Project
Class: ADV5503 Persuasion and the Marketplace
Photos: Google search
Two posters designed for an experiment to determine whether serif or sans serif typefaces are more efficient and effective in eliciting positive emotions in print advertisements. The subject of these posters is one of four; only two were present in the experiment. This was not one of the four.
Each set of posters were set in both serif and sans serif type (one family each) with varying weights.
Design Quickie: Certified Potato (Sticker)
I’m not sure who, when, where, or why the term “potato” became synonymous with a person who views themself as plain/boring/ugly/whatever, but I’m here for it.
And to show my pride as a potato myself, I designed this sticker that reads: “Certified Potato”.
Don’t worry—all of my future blog posts will not be just sticker designs and silly things. I do have some actual work waiting to come out of the pipeline (final stretch, you know?), mostly logo design with some layout stuff mixed in. It’s coming, I promise.
Design Quickie: What Thit HEO?! (Sticker)
EDIT: Stickers are now available for purchase!
I grew up in a bilingual household. My mom is originally from Vietnam and speaks, well, Vietnamese. My (late) dad was born and raised in Philly and spoke Philadelphese—you know, stoop, crick, wooder, hoagie. All dem jawns.
On my mom’s side, all of the ladies speak with poise. Their English may not be that great, but they try and I can understand each of them quite well. The men, on the other hand, also try, but they try hard. So hard, in fact, they also learned to speak Philadelphese…ish.
This sticker design, which makes me laugh heartily every time I say it aloud, is an homage to my Vietnamese uncles and any other AZN bad boy who always lets one slip when the time’s right: WHA THIT HEO?!
So, unless you’re familiar with what any sort of Asian accent sounds like (I’m really nodding my head at Vietnamese and Chinese), then these words won’t make sense.
I’ll break it down:
• Wha = what
• Thit = the/tha (if you also speak Philadelphese) (FUN FACT: “thit” as a Vietnamese word means “meat”.)
• Heo = H-E-double-hockey-sticks, hell
what•thit•HEO?!
Design Quickie: Make it POP!
EDIT: Stickers are now available for purchase!
A running joke between creatives is how clients, who are not well-versed in designer vernacular, will often try to overdescribe what they want as compensation for not knowing how.
Other times, they’ll use power or action words in lieu of what we would use.
The most popular is, “Make it POP!”, sometimes phrased as a question, “Can you make it pop?”
To celebrate this, I made a sticker design for today’s design quickie.
The one on the left was my first draft, but to simplify it and make it a little easier on the eyes, I turned it into the one on the right. Both are annoying, just not equally. Trying to decide if I’ll turn this into a sticker. (You’ll be the first ones to know when and if I do.)
