This was a poster created to be apart of a series of posters that coincide with my other classmates. In this series, "Snapshots of Success", each of us were assigned a different attribute that successful people usually have, and in some cases, the successful ability that was holding some of us from being successful. Depicted in my final piece, Is an archer taking aim at an apple placed on a man's head, standing in a field. The quotation "Don't waste time calculating your chances of success and failure. Just fix your aim and begin.", is fixed to form an aiming line for the archer, and is used to give the piece depth. The borders were used to give it the appearance of a Polaroid with a handwritten FOCUS to ensure that the audience understands, true success comes from great focus.

I created a fictional cover for Esquire magazine using a similar style to theirs, and with original photography. Esquire uses a lot of graphic design type covers on every issue without having a set style. A lot of the time, the cover uses texts in interesting ways, from distorting text to make it look like a wall, to actually writing the teasers on the cover model itself. Colors vary, and is always eye catching. I took a photo of myself positioned on a wall, and turned the wall into the text to make it seem as though I was leaning on the magazines lead stories.

Photo Restoration

In this project, I had to find a photograph that was in need of restoration, and use the original and retouched photo in an advertisement. I found a photograph that was taken in the 1940's that had been wrapped around a pen for safe keeping. As you can see the original had been severely damaged with crease marks and tears. I rebuilt many parts of the officers' uniform and several portions of the background. I also altered the color settings and levels to keep the black and white photo fresh, and restored it from its aged discoloration.