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Jon Fenlon

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Former EMU Graphic Design student Jon Fenlon (above, on the left), class of ‘07, passed away running the Detroit Marathon on Sat. of what appears to be heart failure. Jon studied abroad in London with me in Spring 2007 (a few images of his work below). He was an extremely talented student who quickly found success shortly after school as an art director at Campbell-Ewald. Beyond his professional accomplishments in life he was a vibrant person and a pleasure to work with.

He will be missed.

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by Ryan M | 10.19.09 | alumni | 16 Comments »

Logan Walters: WuTang + Blue Note

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Former EMU graphic design student Logan Walters has been getting quite some internet play for his recent re-imagining of WuTang album covers as if they were Blue Note records. Congrats to Logan for his success and the great project. You can read more about the project here, here, and here. I really like the treatment of my favorite Wu affiliated album Liquid Swords (below).

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by Ryan M | 05.17.09 | Miscellany, alumni | 1 Comment »

Interactive design method

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I’ve decided to change this blog entry into something more useful for EMU students, and explain the process we followed to create this site. If you’re creating a site by yourself, you might sketch out a design, create mockups, and code everything without having to illustrate many ideas. But, when you work with other designers and developers, more organization is often needed to streamline the process.
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by Nick | 03.03.09 | Life Beyond School, Uncategorized, Web design, alumni | 3 Comments »

CMAS logo

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I  keep coming on here, putting in my two cents’ worth about other people’s logos, so I thought I’d post a logo that I’m currently working on, to get some feedback. I struggle with logos, and it’s probably my least favorite thing to do, but I managed to get assigned this one. Yipee.

The logo is for a huge, global department, that has had no rhyme or reason to any of their documents, sign-age,  powerpoint presentations, etc. The department is called “CMAS,” short for Chemistry, Materials and Analytical Sciences. They mostly do materials innovation and appliance forensics, meaning they come up with new materials (plastics, resins, coatings, etc.) and figure out what went wrong when something on an appliance goes bad (cracked shelves, dysfunctional parts, corrosion, etc.). Most of it is waaaay over my head.

Each CMAS lab is basically a big chemistry lab with a lot of really hi-tech equipment, so I made a periodic table, and shrunk it down to make it more compact. It took the shape of a building, which fits, because part of what they do is make materials out of the elements, or study the materials to see what elements it contains (to check for possible material contamination). The bottom logo is just another version of the top logo, to be used when the text would become too hard to read. Any feedback would be much appreciated. 

by Jenna | 11.24.08 | alumni | 2 Comments »

Site finished

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I posted this here a long time ago, so I thought I’d post to the finished (or at least published) site.

by Nick | 08.20.08 | Web design, alumni | 4 Comments »