P.T. Barnum – Exhibition Model

The last iteration of the cube designs was this exhibition model created using cut-up copies of the final cube designs and re-imagining them as giant exhibition graphics.

P.T. Barnum – Booklet

This booklet was designed using square crops from the final cube designs as an exercise in distilling the 3D, non-linear experience of the cube down into a cohesive book experience.

P.T. Barnum – Cube

These projects were all part of my midterm for my Communication Design 2 class from last term. We were all assigned P.T. Barnum as a research subject and were instructed to create a black & white, 3D, designed experience in the form of a 7″ cube. The initial designs were created directly on the foamcore cube by cutting and gluing xerox copies and enlargements. Only after many weeks of design and revisions did we move to the computer to finalize the compositions.

Overall I’d say this class was a really helpful exercise in creating great design out of simple materials and methods as well as a lesson in how to re-think design problems to make new and interesting work.

Silent Film – Chess

This film was my midterm project for my Language of the Moving Image class last term. It was a group project so we all contributed but mostly the other two guys came up with the story and I figured out the shots that would tell it best. During shooting I set up the shots, ran the camera, and helped direct the actors. We each did our own separate edit of the footage.

Not perfect, I know, but I’m pretty happy with it all things considered.

Happy Father’s Day!