Category : Personal Work

Sticky Fingers Barbeque

Posted by The Milstead at 8:28 am

Media: Identity / Promo Material
When: Spring 2009
View the commercial on YouTube.com!

Each of us in our design class collaborated with 4-5 culinary majors at my university to conceptualize and brand a restaurant. My group’s idea was a barbecue joint featuring a nice sized arcade with its own identity (the Pixel Pit). The elements we created to complete a set of promotional materials were a logo for both the restaurant and the arcade, stationery, a full bi-fold menu, postcards, billboard ads, a website mockup, and a short television commercial, which can be viewed on YouTube.

NSU Art Department Brochure

Posted by The Milstead at 8:23 am

Media: Brochure
When: Spring 2008
Student Work

The Division of Art at Nicholls State University doesn’t have an “official” brochure for incoming art majors, so our project was to create one that reflected the personality of the department. Using photos of faithful students working ever so diligently, field trips, and pictures I took myself, this foldout was created with simplicity in mind. Compact and eye-catching, the brochure contains only the most necessary of information (required classes, directory of staff/instructors, introduction to facilities, etc.) while maintaining the fun attitude of the Nicholls art department itself to keep it from being just another boring info packet. Very modern and digital in its design aesthetic, yet containing elements such as paint splatters, allows the piece to convey that the university is open and accepting of students pursuing direction in any type of medium.

The Microphones Music Video

Posted by The Milstead at 8:12 am

Media: Video
When: Spring 2009
View on YouTube.com

“I Hope You Wish You’d Die” is an outtake from The Microphones’ bestselling album The Glow, Pt. 2 and one of my favorite songs from the group (really, Phil Elvrum, the brains of the whole project). For my second New Media class, we were to create music videos for a song of our choice with After Effects, and this is what I put together. It was made to capture the recurring themes in Elvrum’s lyrics about the awkwardness of life situations, feeling small in the world, and the use of everyday things we take for granted as deeper symbolism.

Sumatra Select Coffee

Posted by The Milstead at 8:05 am

Media: Retail Packaging
When: Autumn 2008
Student Work

With such weird flavors (for java, at least) as Vanilla Mint Twist, White Mocha Raspberry, and Banana Nut Creme, the fictional coffee brand Sumatra Select aims to add an adventurous new twist to the all too familiar commercialized Starbucks world we live in. The coffee comes packaged in a squared metal tin colored appropriately for each variety.

Halloween Masquerade 2009

Posted by The Milstead at 8:00 am

Media: Poster
When: Autumn 2008/2009
Student Work

This was a poster designed for, you guessed it, a Halloween masquerade to be held at Nicholls State University in October. There were a couple of other designers offering different ideas, as well. Originally designed in 2008, it wasn’t used until the next year. Though the process was entirely digital, the concept was to present the feel of a very unfortunate printmaking job. The characters were pieced together in Photoshop from several photograph sources and later traced in Illustrator.

Spock Typeface

Posted by The Milstead at 7:54 am

Media: Typeface/Poster
When: Spring 2007
Student/Collaborative Work

This project was a collaborative effort between myself, Caleb Bourgeois, and Blaine Faucheux. We got into groups of 3 and created a typeface using only 2 small modules that we came up with ourselves. We were only required to create six letters, but my group ended up doing the whole alphabet (because we’re that awesome). We had another name in mind, but by the time all the letters were completed, everything felt very sci-fi/futuristic.

Deconstruct

Posted by The Milstead at 7:43 am

Media: Poster
When: Autumn 2007
Student Work

The idea for this piece was to convey the meaning of a particular word using only photos I had taken of random items (for example, the poster features aluminum foil, thumb tacks, a crystal golf ball, and other things). Taking inspiration from late 1990s Metalheart design, an impression of disorder was created with the combination and tinkering of several photos, as well as typography created solely by light, defining a scene of “deconstruction.”