Author Archives: Austin Pappolla

For my infographic, I decided to focus on littering and its overall impact on marine life. A lot of people don’t realize how much marine life suffers as a result of humans being careless so I felt the need to spread awareness of some of the consequences of our actions. For the data and research aspect, I found some interesting factsContinue reading “Marine Life Infographic”

For this assignment, I was asked to make my own custom logo using the tools in Adobe Illustrator. My inspiration behind the design is my own YouTube channel. With this logo, I knew I wanted it to be centered around something that represents me and a subject that I feel passionate about. That made theContinue reading “Logo Design”

For this assignment, I created the single page turtle article by following the video for technical guidance while also using my own creative freedom to make it look more like I made it myself. Simple things like making the word Green in the title the color green with large text is an example of this. The diamondsContinue reading “Turtle Assignment”

For one of this week’s assignments I was asked to follow a step by step guide for basic poster to help get used to Adobe Indesign. With this being a step by step process, there wasn’t too much I could follow in terms of the design process other than making sure the spacing and color schemesContinue reading “Intro to Indesign: Example Poster”

With this project, I was asked to experiment with the image trace feature of Illustrator. The photo you see is a traced one of myself. The design was pretty simple but I for one think it came out good. I traced it using 10 colors then made have of my face dark to make thisContinue reading “Image Trace”

For this assignment, there wasn’t a lot of artistic freedom or design processes that I followed. I mostly wanted to make sure I could do the assignment correctly while being to learn how to properly use the pen tool. The only things I did that did not follow the assignment were adding color to the pear andContinue reading “Pear Assignment”

For this project, I didn’t have any specific design ideas. The only thing I knew is that I wanted every box to have different shapes and patterns made from shapes and the pen tool. For the colors, I used with the shapes patterns, I themed them around teams I follow. As for why I choose the backgroundContinue reading “Box Patterns”

For this assignment, there weren’t any specific creative processes I used. The elephant was more meant to be a for fun assignment that introduces us to colors, fills, swatches, and gradients. It was more about making sure we could show the ability to use fills correctly. To be honest, I’m not exactly sure why I made theContinue reading “Introduction to Fill”

For this assignment, I didn’t really use any specific design aspects. With this being an introductory assignment where we needed to follow exact steps, there wasn’t a ton of room for creativity. The only thing I was able to do beyond the creation of the step by step pencil was to fill shapes with color which I did in aContinue reading “Introduction to Illustrator”

For this week, I was asked to make a social awareness poster. I decided to center the theme around bullying through both symbols and words. As someone who cannot stand bullying, I felt a desire to make my own personal social awareness poster of it. After initially getting some inspiration online and thinking about unique ways in which IContinue reading “Social Awareness Poster”