Typography Posters

Typography & Design Lecture Series Poster, 24 x 36


Typography & Design Lecture Series Poster II (draft), 36 x 24
Here is my final version of this poster. The second was a second concept that I ended up not pursuing since I went with the first one, but I still liked it so I decided to put it up as well. This poster is pretty large size, not an easy one to print either as I’ve been experiencing.. This marks the end of my Typography classes! Can finally move onto Advanced Graphic Design Studio. 
Also I should note that the content of this poster is entirely fictional, made by my teacher. So sorry, these lectures are not actually happening this fall =(

Game Poster and Type Compositions

The Era of the Digital Sport
11 x 17

Art of Visual Language Type Composition I
10 x 10

Art of Visual Language Type Composition II
10 x 10
Well, some different things going on here, but this is just the couple things I’ve been working on the past few days. ‘The Era of the Digital Sport’ is actually a remake of an older poster I did for Mouse and Toggle, a video game group at my school. For so reason I can’t find the post that it’s in, but it’s in the Graphic Design section if you want to see the difference between the two. The type compositions are not the most exciting, but required so I just put them up so you can see the final results. I’ll be working on comics now, hope everyone has a lovely Valentine’s Day.

Infographs and Seven Strokes

Population Graphs
Illustrator


Seven Strokes, Poster and Program Design
Indesign and Illustrator

Hello again, some new things again. I did a poster for the Drama Centre’s production show here at Central Saint Martins, asked by one of my friends, so I played around with the 7. The population graphs are actually for a presentation I had with a group, discussing about cities and the growth of population and how it affects the future as well as us as designers. It’s actually the first time I’ve tried my hand at information in that form, it was quite interesting and challenging to do in some ways. Now I have to get back to writing my 2000 word essay…

Hidden History

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Social Pyramid
24 x 18, Drawing and Photoshop

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Work Force
24 x 18, Drawing and Photoshop
This ‘Hidden History’ Project is what I’ve been working on for the past month, we were assigned to research and interpret what we thought a ‘hidden history’ was. My subject was based first on the differences of Chinese and Western culture, reflecting on my experiences as a Chinese-American. As I researched further though, these pieces evolved more into social commentaries with cultural subtleties. Looking at China’s social structure and power as a rising global economy, I studied many different facets of their culture that differ from American culture. Some of these include the abuse of human rights, jobs, money, and manipulation of power. From what I found, I created these illustrations as my own commentary and reaction. This is not to say that China is the only world power that has flaws within its system, but I chose to focus of it specifically because of my heritage.
And, now to talk a bit about the artwork themselves, I was originally going to screenprint these three images but due to some complications and the time left to complete this project, I resulted in printing them digitally. These three images are actually not final yet, there is a third piece that I still have to remake since I wasn’t satisfied with it. I have some more editing to do with the composition and the color schemes, as well as a few tweeks to ‘Work Force’ to sharpen/refine the linework. I thought I would post these up for now anyway since I had just finished the crit for it.
Overall this project was a greater leap towards concept and idea-based illustration, which I am getting more and more interested in. I will definitely be approaching my future illustrations with this mindset and hope to create more outspoken works. Cheers

NEW WEBSITE! and some posters

Batman and Robin
8.5 x 11, Photoshop

Pan’s Labyrinth
11 x 17, Pencil Lineart and Photoshop

A well needed-update, I only have a few art pieces to show. But the more important announcement to be made is my website that I’ve been working on over the past month! It is finally up and running (still with a few kinks) but nevertheless up on the web. Visit it at www.jenniferyung.com. I’ll probably be working on this blog site as well to make some updates to match the new website more.

With that said, the few things I’ve been working on other than my site have been a few prints and a painting. Batman and Robin was something I wanted to pitch to Threadless for a t-shirt, but I think I may just end up making them on my own. Pan’s Labyrinth is one of my favorite movies and I wanted to do larger scale posters to sell at future conventions, I’m pretty happy with the way it turned out. I have a painting that I’m supposed to get up here as well but I haven’t taken a good photo of it yet so it will be up soon.

Final Graphic Design Project


National Portfolio Day Poster
18 x 24, Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign
So, here is the last project I did in my d.studio class (graphic design). All 6 students in the class were assigned to make a unique poster, and eventually one of them was chosen to be used. This was my version, a flow chart of the experience of an artist (at least through my eyes). I wanted it to be really playful and whimsical, I played off of influences of other flow charts I saw and themes from Dr. Seuss and such. This poster is opened in the mail from the back, as shown in the final diagram. The back follows the same bubble flow chart theme, and then continues onto the back as the final image. This design is meant to draw people in by examining the small pathways and options that lead you through the flow chart. Ultimately, the viewer is lead to the intention of the poster: National Portfolio Day, but it’s still fun to retrace and explore the possibilites that you didn’t take. It’s meant to draw people’s attention as well as leave them still thinking about National Portfolio Day, and if they are interested, then lead them to the back where more information is (if the poster is hung up on the wall). Unfortunately this poster didn’t get chosen out of the 6, but I still liked the final results. Well, onward to more projects! Summer has come, and I have a list of things to do.

SAIC First Catalog

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First 2011 SAIC Catalog (Cover, Title and Spread)
6 x 6 spreads, Illustrator & Indesign
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Mouse and Toggle Poster
11 x 17, Illustrator & Photoshop
After a long good 2 months, I have finally come to a conclusion of the First 2011 catalog for my D.studio (Graphic Design) class. A 400-page book entirely formatted with cover, title, intro and conclusion pages. All of the students were required to complete the book entirely, hence why we were working on it for so long. My concept behind the design is the intersection/plane exploration that represents the interactions of the students and the school. It developed into a more minimalist design, but I went through many drafts of shapes, colors and compositions.
“Almost Here” was a submission to a contest for the new student center ceiling design. I worked on this project with Justin, a classmate of mine. We put together this idea of juxtaposing water and sky imagery, and the relationship they imposed on each other through the presentation of there imagery. We took several underwater pictures as the start of this idea, and from there the sky was brought in many ways to experiment with the underwater photos. Revolving around the themes of tranquility, exploration, innovation and self-reflection, we created “Almost Here”. I personally view this work not just a ceiling proposal but a piece itself apart from its original purpose. I quite like the end product and how it was displayed in a large format, as for the contest results we’ll see how that goes.
Last but not least is the Mouse and Toggle poster, something I did to promote the video game club that I’m part of at school. I made vectored drawings of game controllers and played around with textures to get the best results, I actually enjoyed making this poster more than other projects I’ve had for assignments for school oddly.. but in any case if you do go to the School of the Art Institute, we always welcome people to our meetings so stop by!

Final Graphic Design Projects

Gay Rights Poster
18 x 24



Alexey Brodovitch Zine (with sample spreads)
11 x 8.5 spreads, 20 pages



For my Intermediate Graphic Design class we had a total of 3 projects for the semester and here are two of them (my first one is only mediocre in my opinion so I decided not to put it up). In both of these projects each student was given a different issue or graphic artist to research and present in a poster and a zine. My topic for the issues poster as you can see was gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender rights, and my graphic designer was Alexey Brodovitch. I really enjoy the simplicity of the poster and I think it carries the message well. For the Alexey Brodovitch zine, I actually had a photoshoot where I asked a few friends to model. (For those that don’t know what a zine is, it’s taken from ‘magazine’ but it’s a small booklet that’s usually around half the size or more of an actual magazine.) I decided to do this photoshoot because so much of Alexey Brodovitch’s work is based off of photography spreads, with great photos from photographers like Irving Penn, Man Ray and others. I was really inspired because of the beautiful compositions that were made from the photos in tangent with typography and design elements. So I took it upon myself to create something influenced by Brodovitch’s style. You can see some of the best shots from the shoot in the photography tab on the top of this site or by visiting my Flickr where more photos are posted. I am very pleased with the final result of this zine though, I want to reuse the pictures with some different text though. The premises of the assignment required text of research of Brodovitch and examples of his work. But the photoshoot went better than expected and I had a lot of fun working with my friends. I didn’t put up all the spreads but just examples so you get the general idea, but the examples shown are what I think best represent the whole zine as a whole.

Nightmare Before Christmas Illustration


Nightmare Before Christmas Illustration
8x10, ink

Since it’s winter break for me, I can work on random things and my own projects, so here is one of them. I went to the MoMa and a Tim Burton show is being exhibited there. Although the show was sold out the day I went, I was able to see some sub-galleries with some of his work. So after some inspiration I came home and drew this little tribute to my favorite work of his, Nightmare before Christmas. Tim Burton has such a great imagination and I’ve always admired that about his work, I hope I was able to do it justice through my illustration! I spent a night inking and then scanned it in the next morning to add the yellow so it was clean, I’m starting to really love working with quill pens. Until next time!
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