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Meghan Stanley's graphic design portfolio book. Planisphere is a self-reflection on the influences that shape Meghan as a designer, and as a person. Meghan lives and works in Massachusetts, USA. She studied design at UMass Lowell and was awarded a certification in Graphic Design and Digital Imaging in September 2014.
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Viewing the Northern Lights I know that we are all made of star dust
WWF Polar Bear Advocacy CampaignPoster, postcard, and formal event invitation
Continued and widespread melting of glaciers during this century will lead to a rise in sea levels. There will be more super storms, floods and water shortages for millions of people.
I’m a global climate change believer
Completed Fall 2013This project was a advocacy campaign for a non-profit, and an identity systems project. WWF is an organization that helps save the earth’s endangered animals. I focused on the importance of the entire ecosystem as environmental degradation threatens both animals and human populations.
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Can the Arctic be saved?
Front cover of folding formal invitation Completed Summer 2013 During my research phase for my advocacy campaign I found mention of a Polar Bear Forum on the WWF website to take place in December 2013 in Russia. I imagined up a fancy charity event in Moscow that dignataries might attend.
He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.
➳ confucius
Inside pages of folding formal invitation
The Laughing Cow box redesign
I wanted an iconic feel that’s vintage and less hokey.
Completed Spring 2014. I researched the history of the Laughing Cow Cheese which dates back to World War I and found the original logo. I redesigned the cow based on the original created by Benjamin Rabier. I tried to in-fuse a French country feeling using the checkered and striped pattern and reinforce this with a barn-like half-octagon shape.
Original design for Gruyères de la Vache qui Rit by Benjamin Rabier
A little bit countryA star in my chart is rising on the southern horizon
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Every beauty which is seen here by persons of perception resembles more than anything that source from which we all are come. ➳ michelangelo
RollRockagain
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A little bit rock & rollThis is Major Tom to Ground Control... and the stars look very different today.
➳ david bowie
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How Magazine Typographic SpreadGeneration X Flashback typography inspired by David Carson and Neville Brody
Completed Fall 2007/ revised 2013 I am fascinated by the evolution of type into the digital age and so I have become a fan of both David Carson and Neville Brody who have pioneered the typographic experimentation.
This 5 page magazine spread was completed in my typography 1 class at Mass Art in 2007. I revised it in 2013, taking it from Adobe CS2 to Adobe CS6. Since starting to study design in 2007 I can see that I have improved and I am becoming more sophisticated over time.
This piece is a good example of my affinity for a raw, colorful, rock & roll style.
out. Overall Carson was not formally trained as a designer. His in�uences were the subcultural world of sur�ng,the Swiss, New-Wave Typography of the 60’s. Postmodern design of the 70’s. Also 60’s Deconstructivist thought in the US. Carson was self taught and is comparable to an “outsider artist” because he didn’t follow the established rules. Like music abstract like Jazz.
WorkBig Business Advertising Campaigns however the form of self expression that is Carson is inherently anti big-business because it is so personal. (NoteThe expession is a reaction and rebellion against corporate big business.. which is by nature conservative. However the
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Legibility does not equal communication.
CarsonIn�uences. Carson started working as a graphic designer in the early 80s. Pre electronic/digital revolution. He had been a professional surfer in the late 70s, Graduated in 77 with honors from San Diego State Univ. with a degree in sociology, and worked as a high school teacher. He had attended some graphic design workshops and had also enrolled in some post graduate design and programs but dropped
Print is reborn, resurrected as somethiing initially unrec ognizable
Points out the way of thinking and a way of workig,
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appropriate something so that it can subvert the threat..)Pepsi Nike etc.
ImpactThe groundbreaking approach to typography, mostly in the way that
Carson used font and broke every rule yet still had e�ective communication of information and ideas.
His work in the 80’s disrupted preconceptions, questioned how and where the relationship
is formed between Headline, Caption, body text, and page border.
Innovation Changed type sizes and fonts, created
custom fonts and type. Richly cluttered pages. Mistakes!
NoGrid – “subvert the grid” Big Ideas, Zen. His work was about self expression..
Impressionist and personal. Carson brought in the multi media in�uences of the day into his designs.
This was the awareness the media reality audience, it appealed them,
multi-media consumers.. Some of the harshest critics have attributed Carson’s
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critics felt he was
a degenerate....
who’s method was only to shock.
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expression and exploration. His impact has a�rmed
that rules are meant to be broken. Considered hero �gure in the age of
radical digital change.
Ironically into computers,
just adapted to the changes and “basically he
worked out of chaos”. Allot of the work was produced as collage on paper.
Carson o�ered an “alternative to locked down rationalism in graphic design.”
People either loved it or hated it. He was a controversial entity that o�ered that escape/ alternative to the normal mode of communication. Carson popularized the notion of communication design as a transparent carrier of messages and graphics that should be part of an abstract message or bigger picture.
We all shine on, like the moon, and the stars, and the sun.➳ John Lennon
Kid at heart
Due to light pollution children living in
America may never experience stars in the
primordial sense.
Yeah!!! I spy the Little Dipper
I love to star gaze
As a child I fantasized that I would be a graffiti artist. I often thought about what buildings and public spaces where I would create amazing murals. Although I personally have refrained from living my fantasy, I still deeply appreciate graffiti as an art form. I think Banksy and possibly Shepard Fairy are two of the best artists of all time.
Poster for Barry McGee exhibit and concurrent events at the ICA, Boston Completed Summer 2013 I wanted this poster to have a street wise feeling. I used patterns designed by Barry McGee as the interior of the spray painted type.
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights➳ arcade fire
I’m missing seeing the stars
I need the darkness, someone please cut the lights
Travel magazine layoutEcuador Endangered Magazine Spread
Mythical creatures, and likewise extinct and endemic species fascinate me
My favorite constellation is Pegasus
For my part I know nothing with any certainty, but the sight of the stars makes me dream.
➳ vincent van gogh
EcoTour•July2013 EndangeredGalapagos
donning scuba equipment and checking computers. Clearly, we were causing a bit of a stir.
Geared up, I leaned against the railing of the cabin cruiser as the dive master ran through his final briefing. He would lead us along the edge
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as our engines sputtered to a stop, a group of blue and crimson Sally
Lightfoot Crabs strolling across a nearby rock froze in place and trained their eyestalks on us, skittering away when we drifted too close. From a grotto in the lava cliff high above our heads, a pair of Blue-Footed Boobies peered down at the Queen Mary as divers moved about the deck,
of the wall and signal us if he saw anything interesting. We should keep an eye on our pressure gauges and let him know when we were down to half a tank. And please, added the dive master, don’t touch anything.
In the protected seas of the Galapagos Marine Reserve, “Don’t touch anything” is more than an admonition: it’s a way of life. Even as cruise ships have replaced whaling vessels, runaway growth in the Galapagos’
tourism industry and the islands’ skyrocketing population have kept native fauna on the defensive. With the Ecuadorian government hesitant to turn away tourism dollars, the future of the islands’ ecosystem may well rest on visitors and residents’ ability to create a new culture of sustainability on Galapagos.
Much like the islands themselves, what makes the seas surrounding Galapagos so unique is their remarkable biodiversity. Located at the intersection of the warm Panama Current and the frigid Humboldt, the waters of the archipelago support a wide variety of sea life, including marine iguanas, dolphins and several species of shark. It’s a kind of aquatic Wonderland, where cold-water species like the Galapagos penguin swim among schools of gaudy tropical fish.
The localized temperatures and finicky currents that make these odd juxtapositions possible also made diving in the Galapagos a bit tricky. 50 feet below the surface, the water was clear but cold, chilling me even through my thick wetsuit as we swam along the ocean floor. Next to us, a pair of comically mismatched manta rays, one about five times the size of the other,
shuffled along the sandy bottom. Underneath a spur of lava rock, a green sea turtle regarded us before gliding off with a lazy wave of its flippers.
The wilderness of the reserve finds its counterpoint in Puerto Ayora, a bustling bayside town on Santa Cruz Island’s southern shore. The dive shops and restaurants jockeying for space on Puerto Ayora’s streets are a testament to the eco-tourism industry that built this town, and most residents seem determined to preserve that livelihood. Restaurants’landscaping doubles as marine iguana nesting ground, while
hotels provide biodegradable soap and encourage guests not to kill spiders out of concern for the island’s food chain.
unforTunaTely, as the population of Puerto Ayora continues its explosive growth, alarming signs of friction are beginning to crop up. Tires, plastic bags and other detritus wash up along the shore of Academy Bay with increasing frequency. Over the past 15 years, the number of introduced species has more than doubled.
accordInG to the Charles Darwin Foundation (CDF), a scientific organization based in Santa Cruz, current rates of
Red-footed Booby
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Completed Summer 2013 Two-page magazine spread on the Galapagos Islands. This was completed in the Summer of 2013 in my GD1 course and revised it Summer 2014
Darwin’s research on the Galápagos led to The Origin of Species, published in 1859
Wedding DesignContract work done for happy couples
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Webpage and save the date
To see my flair for web design please visit my website:
http://megcstanley.com
For this Fall wedding I illustrated a save the date card based on the couples proposal story. I created a simple two-column wedding webpage using BBEdit, and menu, table numbers and program for the wedding day.
Lisa and Leo
Honey, you are my shining star.Don’t you go away.Wanna be right here where you areuntil my dying day ➳ Leo Graham & Paul Richmond
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Starry eyedin love
Formal invitation, reply and info
cards, table and escort cards,
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It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves
➳ william shakespeare
➳ photography courtesy of Joyelle West
Love is a portion of the soul itself, and it is of the same nature as the celestial breathing of the atmosphere of paradise.
➳ victor hugo
Kerri and Andrew I worked with the bride to come up with a identity and visual theme that was carried throughout all as-pects of the wedding. The shades of blue were used thematically to represent the end of the summer season.
The Master SpeedBy Robert Frost
No speed of wind or water rushing by But you have a speed far greater. You can climb Back up a stream of radiance to the sky, And back through history up the stream of time.
And you were given this swiftness, not for haste Nor chiefly that you may go where you will. But in the rush of everything to waste, That you may have the power of standing still— Off any still or moving thing you say.
Two such as you with a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
And you were given this swiftness, not for haste Nor chiefly that you may go where you will. But in the rush of everything to waste, That you may have the power of standing still— Off any still or moving thing you say.
Two such as you with a master speed Cannot be parted nor be swept away From one another once you are agreed That life is only life forevermore Together wing to wing and oar to oar.
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➳ photograph by Joyelle West
Table numbers, escort cards and
place cards
For this beginning of Fall end of Summer themed wedding I created a identity system using trees native to Massachusetts. Each table number card pictures a native tree. The tree corresponds to the image of the specific leaf pictured on the escort and place cards.
Identity System
Trees native to Massachusetts
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2 2Maren Lane and Christian Berman Maren Lane
Christian Berman Haley Mittler
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Sascha and Crystal Usenko Sascha Usenko
Crystal Usenko Hao and Lisa Troung &Tristin
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Frank Pagliuca Gail Pagliuca
John Fitzgerald and Maryanne Butler John Fitzgerald
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Stephen Gates Laura Gates
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Charles and Maureen Bennett Charles Bennett
Maureen Bennett Janie and J.D. Crisafulli and Robert Lonero
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Seth Bernier
Meghan Stanley Jack Stanley
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Stephen Masterman
Elizabeth Rahaim
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Keith Stanley Elnara Eynullayeva
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Lord Clement-Jones Shirley Hardman
Shirley Hardman Alan Cody
...Compose the history of the celestial motions through careful and expert study.
➳ nicolaus copernicus
There is order in the universe
Graham & BrownCatalog Design Completed Spring 2014This was an excercise for my advnaced Graphic Design course. We had to choose to create a retail catalog. I focused on the corporate identity of G&B as a high end retailer that wanted to portray a youthful and hip vibe. Making the old new and trendy again.
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