Second year starting soon

Sunday, August 29th, 2010

I moved into my dorm room yesterday, and it is great to be back in the city. I can't wait for my classes to start - I have some very good ones lined up this semester. I'm going to be taking Motion Graphics 2, which I'm very excited about, as well Digital Imaging 2 and Visual Design & Typography 2. It's going to be an interesting semester!

Interning

Saturday, August 28th, 2010

I was interning for a very short period at A Lot to Say Inc., helping with a few design things that needed to get done, as well as working on my portfolio. I look forward to doing similar work in the future!

Updated Finally!

Friday, August 27th, 2010

Website updated! I've changed quite a bit, getting rid of almost all the pages and updating the artwork and the portfolio work shown. It's time that this site became what it was destined to become - my web portfolio.

About Me

I am a second year college student attending Academy of Art University in San Francisco, California, and I hope to graduate with a BFA in Web Design and New Media.

I am always striving to know more abut everything that I do, so as a result I am constantly reading books about typography, HTML, grid systems, and the like. I find the concept of design fascinating, and I want to create work that inspires people or makes them see something a little differently. I am working towards this every day.

Contact Me

You can send me a message to say how you liked my site, inquire about my availability, or just to say hi!

My email: amber.muck@yahoo.com

deviantART: greenaleydis.deviantart.com

Portfolio

A Lot To Say Inc. Green Fashion Show Signs

3 display signs | Summer 2010 | A Lot to Say Inc.

These signs were created for a green fashion show taking place in New York. The idea was to make them look gallery-like, since they would be displayed under giant glass vases filled with plastic bottles, yarn, and the A Lot To Say apparel in order to illustrate the process of creating the products.

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Hindsights

Book jacket, poster | Spring 2010 | Visual Design & Typography 1

The Hindsights project was a four week long class assignment that involved making a book sleeve and book poster for the book Hindsights by Guy Kawasaki. This was probably my favorite assignment in the class and probably the one that turned out the best out of the assignments I did.

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Tatted Up

2pg magazine spread | Spring 2010 | Digital Photography 1

This came from an assignment designed to study how to use images to create a magazine spread. The title was completely our decision based on the photo we took.

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CurryUpNow

Identity rebrand | Spring 2010 | Visual Design & Typography 1

CurryUpNow is a street food cart local to the San Francisco Bay area that specializes in a mix of Indian and Mexican street food.

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SoMA Junction

5pg magazine spread, magazine ad | Spring 2010 | Visual Design & Typography 1

This was an interesting assignment for Visual Design & Typography 1 where we had to create a design for a magazine spread for an article written for the SoMA district in San Francisco (south of market.) I had to go on location to take the pictures, which was great, and got to experiment with different type options for print.

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MADD ads

3 magazine ads | Spring 2010 | Visual Design & Typography 1

This was one of our first assignments, where we had to create an ad with the given copy that illustrated the concept.

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Artwork

Animations

Animating never seemed to be my strong point growing up. Even though I had access to Flash (back in Macromedia's days,) I could still could not animate anything better than masking shapes, tweening circle-squares, and a 30 second music video of a stick figure mouthing the words to "Dancing Queen." After I was introduced to After Effects (in Motion Graphics 1), I discovered a fascination with animating and have been working to improve my skills ever since then. Currently I am experimenting with visual effects and video footage.

Ink and Sketches

I've drawn for as long as I can remember, but I didn't begin doing any serious ink work until a year or two ago. Armed now with a modest amount of amazing pens, I'm working every day to improve my proportions, line quality, and confidence with the medium.

Named Beauties (colored pencil)

The "Named Beauties" collection is a series of colored pencil drawings I did in 2008 when I first began seriously experimenting with color pencil. Half of these were completed within the same week, during a long drive from Alaska to California.

Otherworld (color pencil)

The "Otherworld" collection of colored pencil drawings is a slightly creepier experiment I did with color pencil; I still add to this collection today. The newer ones are listed first.