For my communication design class, I needed to create a poster for this contest. The categories were either Eco-poster, or Eco-culture. I’m not sure if I really fall under either of those categories, but I just wanted to make a comment on society’s culture and what it seemed like it was leading to with the quickly advancing technology.

I think people should value more face-to-face interactions in opposed to texting and computer communication. At least, that was the idea.

The above is my final poster that I came up with in the end after critique, but sadly it isn’t the one that I sent in to the contest (I submitted before I got critiqued).

Haha, o well, but anyway, read on to see the first few designs. It’s interesting to see the process and where it ended up heading, I think.

That’s all for now!

At Last!! The time has come for me to post pictures of my final project for Letterpress!!!
So, the reason I haven’t posted it on here is because I was scared that my parents would see it.
Why?
Because I decided to make something for their 25th anniversary (which was on May 31st)
It is a hard cover book that I hand-set, printed and bound completely by myself!
In total I had to make 5 copies, so it was a lot of work, but I’m really glad how it came out, so I can’t wait to show you what it looks like!

Of course, looking at it on here isn’t quite the same as holding it in your hand, but I’ll try my best to make something later that will give you the general idea of how it should look and feel.

So the book basically has 2 story lines going on. On one side there is small font that tells about an incident that happened and what kinda inspired me to make this book. Here’s what it says:

It was supposed to be a surprise. Dad bought this for her in March but their anniversary wasn’t until May. He wanted me to hide it before I went back to college and then in May I was supposed to ask her to look for the box, pretending that I forgot it, but instead find the rings. Then tax season arrived… Mom got frazzled when she couldn’t find the check register dad had hidden. To avoid further conflict we decided to go through with the plan even though it was 2 months early. However, it was unsuccessful. She was too upset to even read my text message asking to search for it! There was a lot of anger and confusion, but in the end she was brought to tears when my dad finally presented it to her.

On the other side there is another narrative, but it sort of flows more like a poem. This is what it said:

Dear Mom, I hope you can find this:
Inside is something special
Dad picked it out
3 rings to represent us kids
5 loops of diamonds for all of us
Silver for 25 years together
but why rings?
Rings are circles, which reach no end
just as love is forever

Well, like I mentioned earlier, it is a much different experience viewing it in person rather than on here, but here’s a glimpse of the work that I put into it, and I’m really glad how it came out.

My parents also liked it a lot!
So anyways, this project was a huge success!
I hope I can make more things like this in the future!

Thanks for stopping by to look!

Haha, I never remember the second half of what the topic for this project was.

But no matter, I like the theme of theatricality more so.

Overall, I think that what I noticed about myself doing this project is that I kinda like and work better when I don’t plan things out toooo much. Sometimes I think that when I go into a project with a specific idea, it doesn’t really come out right in the end. I guess trying too hard seems to mess it up. When I go about things casually, and kinda experiment at the same time they seem to be what I’m the most happy with (at least most of the time).

Anyways, that’s 3/4 of my final projects so far!
Stay tuned for my final project for Letterpress!!!

So this is based off of something that happened to me in real life. Minus the dramatic music

Took me all night to complete.. mostly because I changed my idea at the very last minute possible.

I think I used this story 3 different times for school assignments.

1. Once in high school for a paper.
2. Freshman year of college to make a one page comic,
3. and now for an animation!

Anyways, I hope you all enjoy!

I made this for my last project for Digital Letterform.
We had to take a genre in the post post modern world and kinda change it up (or at least, that was my understanding of the assignment).
Have you ever watched that recut trailer for Mary Poppins? Well if not, here it is:

My finished Physical Type project
I just kept it really simple and didn’t worry a whole lot about making the text extravagant. I also almost put it with my UofO shirt that says 12-0, but I didn’t want it to be too literal, so I just make it super ambiguous.

I decided to post another old project from this past fall term. I made this for my digital imaging class. I have to say that it is one of my favorites that I made in that class. This is the first serious composite in photoshop that I ever did.

Serious as in quality… not so much subject matter

Read on to see more of the project details.

Here’s the project description taken directly from my teacher [he worded it a lot better] :

I want you to stage a scene within photoshop that gives such a fantastic vision clout and clarity. You must design an image that brings many photographed elements of widely-ranging size coherently and seamlessly into one space. I want even, realistic lighting and shadows, believable atmospherics, all brought together in a thoughtfully composed arrangement.

Taking that in mind, I decided to try and set up my stuffed animals (+ Manikin) in the living room of mine and my roommates’ apartment.
I took all the pictures at around the same time to make sure that the lighting was right, and I also took them in the same room and around the same general area at the same angle in the room to make sure the lighting was right too.

In the end, when I was finished I adjusted the colors in the photo to give it a different feel.

For me the hardest character to work with was the Manikin because I thought it looked too sharp compared to my soft stuffed animals.
The shot glass was also hard to figure out because I wanted it to still seem translucent.
Shadows were hard too, but I managed enough.

It took about 4 straight hours, but I’m glad how it turned out.
Made in Photoshop CS5
All photos were taken by me © Kelli Urabe

It’s so weird to think that I just made these this year, but it feels like ages ago!

If you need more info on the video, just check the details on the actual video link.

Thanks for looking!

In total I had 7 photos that I turned in. I got an “A” on it too

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