hazel llanes
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A rough, incomplete pattern I worked on for a package design that never happened. Looks a bit chain mail-y.
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Going to make an effort to look for cool typography around the city and document them here. This chalk lettering is on a sandwich board outside Noce restaurant along Queen St. W.
I wonder who made it?
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October 2nd marked the beginning of my design internship at Whitman Emorson. So far it’s been an absolute blast! Their varied clientele means I never know what kind of work I’m going to do next and this keeps me on my toes.
It has only been a couple of weeks but I’ve already learned so much. A lot of it consist of lessons that I would have never learned in school. I’m immensely grateful.
The first work I did for them was designing this website for The Frocktail Party, an annual fashion event in Toronto that auctions off designer garments to raise money for diabetes research. It’s a fairly simple design but it feels good to see it up and running.
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LP cover design for Jhameel’s Soldier’s Daughter. This is a comp I made for a school project, but I don’t think I’ll be using this for the final since my prof wants me to go a different direction.
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Another day, another pattern.
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Cut up some leftovers paint scraps from last semester’s colour class, scanned them, and made a fun pattern! More to come.
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Played around with some photos I scanned from old issues of NYLON while listening to the David Rakoff episode of This American Life.
Lately I’ve been getting this itch to experiment on photoshop and illustrator. There’s been this sudden influx of ideas for poster designs, magazine layouts, and Tumblr themes that I’ve been too excited to even sleep!
Perhaps it’s due to the fact that school starts again next week and by then I won’t have time for personal design projects, so in a desperate bid for some fun before it’s too late my brain is overcompensating.
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Labor Day means hanging out in the backyard with the dog, eating maple walnut ice cream, and watching the National Geographic channel all night with my dad.
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“Naive optimism is everything. I think a lot of people approach the world thinking that things are reserved for people who are qualified in some official capacity. Some people assume they could never be as good at something as some master, which makes them self-defeat before they start. I think some things that are really incredible were achieved because people were really naive when they began—they had an idea, set out to do it, and learned along the way.” -
Last semester work for my Communication Design 2 class. My professor asked us to redesign an existing paper currency or create one for a fictional world, so of course I made one for the Wizarding World! There are a bunch of security features in my design such as serial numbers, microtext, gradient colouring, and ornaments to help prevent counterfeiting.
The colour choices were taken from traditional Gryffindor colours where Dumbledore belonged to as a student. When you fold the bill, both sides connect to create the Deathly Hallows symbol.
To a muggle’s eyes this bill is static, but to wizards the smoke actually billows out from the train and Dumbledore waves at you and comes and goes as he pleases, just like in the Chocolate Frog cards.
