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Portfolio of Graphic Design/Misc work from highschool
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Portfolio
Nate Chandler
Hello
Welcome to my portfolio
Contact Information:Nate Chandler
732 Enterprise Ave.Lompoc, CA 93436
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Contents
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Personal Statement
Publication
Branding
Illustrations
Miscellaneous
Paintings
Personal Statement
My name is Nathan Joseph Chandler,
but everyone just calls me “Nate”. I’ve
been creating things my entire life. When
I was four years old, my Montessori pre-
school teacher would not let me make
things that were not real. Drawing spooky
monsters, or folding a piece of paper to
create a laptop, all were not allowed.
When I could no longer “stay in the lines”,
my mom transferred me to our neighbor-
hood public school. There, art activities
were generally prescribed exercises,
however I flourished in the new, more art
friendly environment.
During elementary school, I was al-
ways interested in the arts, from drawing
huge scenes on large roll out paper after
school at YMCA, to learning how to play
the guitar, banjo, and mandolin, talents I
still practice today. In middle school, I took
string music courses, where I learned how
to play the violin and cello. I also took an
art class, which held a lot of my attention
during those transitional years.
High school meant a bigger campus
with more people to meet and interact
with, I was excited, but still very unsure
what to do with my life.
My freshman year I was lost, I got hit by
a car and broke my femur, causing me
to miss a lot of school at the beginning of
the year. Returning to school in a wheel-
chair and then crutches was disappointing
and the classes I was taking weren’t very
stimulating either. I had the basic schedule
Math, English, Science, and my electives
were Auto shop and French. It was the
start of a very boring year.
A couple of my friends were taking an
art class called Visual Communications, a
graphic design class. They were always
talking about it, so I decided to check the
class out. I would go there at lunch
and draw with them and check out all
the amazing design pieces people were
creating. Mr. Schaller, the teacher, was
pretty funny, and all the art they had on
display made by previous students quickly
caught my eye. I was amazed by what
“I wanted to create, I wanted to
design. I wanted to learn”
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was happening in that room. I decided
I would take the class next year and see
what I could do. When the time came the
following year I began the class, anxious
to learn the programs and skills needed
to create my own individual pieces of
work. I learned about logo design, dif-
ferent fonts, and the basic principles of
design. This knowledge gave me the tools
to develop my work, until I was ready to
enter the advanced placement course the
following year. It was great to be in an
advanced class, where I had competition
on projects, and artistic peers to critique
my work. High school was no longer an
uninteresting large block of time, at least
not during my graphic design classes.
Now I knew what I wanted to do in life,
I wanted to create, I wanted to design, I
wanted to learn more.
Growing up through high school
taught me a lot of things about myself.
My time on the swim and water polo team
at the varsity level taught me self disci-
pline, and that I have the persistence and
stamina to achieve, no matter how difficult
the scenario. The graphic design program
taught me that being creative is who I am.
I hope that CCA will be my opportunity to
express who I am, and continue to teach
me about what interests me the most, art.
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Publication 4
B L A C KIn ancient times there was
nothing, except a celestial
being. we know him as zorex,
king of Wizards. He created
all That is our world when
he began to cry. every tear
creating the Stars, and
Planets. When he had finished
crying our new black uni-
verse was the final product.
Zorex decided that since he
created all this new space,
it needed something to
live in it.
He than began to make
humanoids and and other
animals. the new black
world was hard for the
new inhabitants. living their
lives in a place of absolute
sadness, without any color
to please the dwellers of
the universe’s senses, zorex
felt his new creature’s
discomfort and began to
put colors into the world.
Cyan was the first color
he chose..
C Y A NCyan, zorex decided, would
look best as water. with
one sweep of his hand he
turned all of the previous-
ly opaque oceans and rivers
into a rich
and beautiful
cyan. The water was mys-
terious as black, but once it
became cyan, creatures of
the world were intrigued
and began fishing and swim-
ming. they were outstanded
by the first sightof color.
So outstanded ac-
tually that they began
to sing and dance, praising
zorex for his mighty deed,
the people could not get
enough of the new color
phenomenon. zorex was so
happy with everyones reac-
tion that he thought
of more ways to
incorporate color into
theyre growing world.
The king of wiz-
ards wanted
magenta to be
next.
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I did this piece during a summer intensive at my high school. I was tasked to create four pages for a book we were making. This project started out with me drawing a the wizard in human form and trying to think of a story behind it. I ended up with a short story about a wizard-god who created the world of color. I like to make stories about all of my drawings, or at least put them into a scenario of some kind, so it was nice to spend some more time to develop and carry out telling the story.
Zorex the king of wizards
Zorex had all the
volcanoes on the
planets that support-
ed life erupt. releas-
ing floods of magenta
lava. all the animals and
humans were amazed and
ecstatic about the sudden
amazing change of scenery.
The magma raced across the
land, giving everything it
touched a tint of magenta,
the entire landscape evolved.
the world was almost
complete.. but there was
just something a little
off. zorex needed to cre-
ate one more color for
the universe to finally be
complete. everyone was
happy with the first two
colors, they just needed one
more to put everything into
a equalibrium of emotions,
zorex settled on yellow,
to mix and create the final
piece of the spectrum.
M A G E N T Awith his great design of the
universe, now wanted to
live in it. it was an immacu-
late world. the wizard king
also felt protective of his
creation. he wanted no one
to do it harm. zorex, and his
wizards took the form
of steers, roaming the
world.they were
catalysts of joy
and imagination.
still guardians
of the world
today.
Yellow was put into the
world by the stars
hanging over our heads.
zorex made all the stars
yellow and they radiated
golden life into all things.
mixing with the rest of the
colors in the world,
making healthy
greens and toasty reds. The
world was finally com-
plete. no one was sad any-
more and everyone lived in
peace. color made our home a
better place. Zorex, satisfied
Y E L L O W
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$7.50 U.S. and $11.50 CAN
Issue 16 December the 20th, 2011
FATE
2 Dec 2011
ConstructivismA love story...
Rogue Squadron Motorcycle HelmetsThe coolest motercycle helmet you will ever see.Destroying not only Deathstars, but ladies too!
The Wasp KnifeThe Wasp Knife is a special combat knife that contains a CO2 cartridge, with a button release on the handle. Too far?
Selk BagsA sleeping bag for your entire body! Much better than sliced bread.
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DESIGN MUSIC ART
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$7.50 U.S. and $11.50 CAN
Issue 16 December the 20th, 2011
FATE
2 Dec 2011
ConstructivismA love story...
Rogue Squadron Motorcycle HelmetsThe coolest motercycle helmet you will ever see.Destroying not only Deathstars, but ladies too!
The Wasp KnifeThe Wasp Knife is a special combat knife that contains a CO2 cartridge, with a button release on the handle. Too far?
Selk BagsA sleeping bag for your entire body! Much better than sliced bread.
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DESIGN MUSIC ART
PAP Registration No. 09064. AgreementNo. 40048073. ISSN 0829 - 982X.Send undeliverable Canadian copies,adress notices and subscriptions orders to: AZURE Magazine, PO Box 819, Stn. Main, Markham, ON, Canada L3P 8L3 Tel: (905) 946 - 0406 Fax (905) 946 - 0410Email: [email protected]
Printed in Canada
USPS 014 - 112. Published eight times per year( Jan/Feb, March/Apr, May, Jun, Jul/Aug, Sept, Oct,Nov/Dec ) By Azure Publishing Inc., U.S. office of publication c/o DDM Direct.com, 1175 William St., Buffalo NY 14206. Periodicals Postage paid at Buffalo NY. U.S. POSTMASTER: Send adress changes to Azure Publishing Inc., PO Box 1014, Niagara Falls, NY 14304
FATE
FATE
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Fate magazine is a fictional magazine. The reason I call my magazine Fate is because it is actually a combination of Nate and Felix. Felix is my good friend and we do a lot of collaboration art projects together. We plan to create a blog called Fate, the goal is to upload a doodle each every week, or anything we make really. I chose to not have any deck on my front page to keep the feeling of the ominous circle as well as white space, which continues through the spread.
FAte magazine
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It evolved just as the Bolsheviks came to power in the October Revolution of 1917, and initially it acted as a lightning rod for the hopes and ideas of many of the most advanced Russian artists who supported the revolu-tion’s goals. It was an entirely new approach to mak-ing objects, one which sought to abolish the tradition-al artistic concern with composition, and replace it with “construction”. Constructivism called for a careful technical analysis of modern materials, and it was
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Constructivism was the last and most influential modern art movement to flourish in Russia in the 20th century.
hoped that this investigation would eventually yield ideas that could be put to use in mass production, serving the ends of a modern, Com-munist society. Ultimately, however, the movement foundered in trying to make the transition from the art-ist’s studio to the factory. Others, meanwhile, pushed on to a new but short-lived and disappointing phase known as Productivism, in which artists worked in industry. Big names in the creation and sustain-ing of the Constructivist movement are El Lissitzky, Vladamir Tatlin, and Alexander Rodchenko.
El Lissitsky was important in spread-ing Constructivism beyond Russia. In 1922, he co-organized the Dus-seldorf Congress of International Productive Artists, with Hans Richter and Theo van Doesburg of the Dutch group De Stijl, and here the International Constructivist move-ment was officially launched. The artists at the Dusseldorf Congress released a manifesto that claimed art as a tool of progress turning Constructivism into a symbol of the modern era. Although the Interna-tional movement did not highlight functionality, it expanded on the idea of art as object, and used new materials to highlight advances in technology and industry. Vladamir Tatlin was central to the birth of Russian Constructiv-ism. He took lessons learned from Pablo Picasso’s Cubist reliefs, and from Russian Futurism, and began creating objects which sometimes
Fate magazine
Poster for Dobloret, the Soviet U
nion’s first major
civil aviation organization, by Alexander Rodchenko
Film poster for Lev-Kuleshov’s “D
eath Ray” by Alexander Rodchenko
I studied the history of graphic design in my AP ROP Graphics II class, I chose to model a spread after my favorite style, Constructivism. A problem I had while making the spread was using white space, I haven’t designed very many magazine spreads so it was hard getting use to the look of it, but I’m happy with the way the spread turned out.
Constructivism spread
seem poised between sculpture and architecture. Initially trained as an icon painter, he soon aban-doned the traditionally pictorial concerns of painting, and instead concentrated on the possibilities inherent in the materials he used - often metal, glass and wood. He wanted above all to bend art to modern purposes, and, ultimately, to tasks suited to the goals of Rus-sia’s Communist revolution. He achieved fame as an architect when he sought to erect a structure that would dwarf the Eiffel Tower,
a design for modern headquarters for the Communist International headquarters, and would act as a calendar as well. It was never constructed but it was going to be a tower that contained a cube, a pyramid, and a cylinder, each would rotate. The cube once a year, the pyramid once a month, and the cylinder which would rotate once a day. Last but not least, Alexander Rodchenko, who was perhaps the most important avant-garde
artist to have put his art in the service of political revolution. In this regard his career is a model of the clash between modern art and radical politics. He emerged as a fairly conventional painter, but his encounters with Russian Futurists propelled him to become an influ-ential founder of the Constructivist movement. And his commitment to the cause of the Russian Revolution subsequently encouraged him to abandon first painting, and then fine art in its entirety, and to instead put his skills in the service
American Institueof Graphic Arts isfounded in NY1914
November 11marks endof WWI
1918
BauhausFormed1919
Tutankhamun tombis discovered, egyptianstyle starts appearing inarchitecture and graphicdesign
1922
Futura Font Familydesigned byPaul Renner1927
Chrysler Building’sgrand openingto the public
1940 Nazis closethe Bauhaus1933
Disney realeasesFantasia1940
Kodacolor, the first colorroll films designedfor color prints, debuts1942
Eniac compiter isinvented, marking thebeginning of thefirst generation of modern computers
1945
Vladimir Tatlinplans to buildTatlins Tower
1920
New Economic Policy established in the Soviet Union
1921
Alexanxer Rodchenkobecomes a
member of theproductivist
group
1921
Chinese CommunistParty is formed
1921
USSRformed
1922El Lissitzky’s
photo montageThe Constructer
is published
1925 USSR admittedto the League
of Nations
1934
El Lissitzkypasses away
1941
19411941Germany invades
the Soviet Union
WWII endsin total victory
for the Allies
1945
Most ConstructivistsArtist were seen as
a threat to the SovietUnion under Stalin.
Those who remained inRussia spent he rest of
thier days in the Gulag
TATLIN's TIMELineThis timeline displays events through the linear time frameof 1910 - 1945. The top of the timeline includes eventsimportant in the world of design, as well as important eventsin the world at that time. The bottum of the timeline includesevents that had to do with the Constructivist movement thatwas happening in Russia during this time period.
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“We hold that the fundamental features of the present age is the triumph of the constructive method.... Every organized work - whether it be a house, a poem, or a picture - is an object directed toward a particular end, which is calculated not to turn people away from life, but to summon them to make their contribution toward life’s organization.”
– El Lissitsky
of industry and the state, design-ing everything from advertising to book covers. He worked his whole life through all media, from painting and sculpting, to graphic design and photography.
During the early years of the Soviet Union, when artists were needed to produce and communicate new ideas, Lenin tolerated them.
Stalin being way to serious shut the whole constructivist movement down, thought of it as a threat to the Union and all artist with their avant-garde ideas were either, smart and got out and away from Stalin, or was sent to a camp and never heard of again and probably froze to death in North Eastern Russia.
Posters from the constructivism movement, all structered around
the main idea of industry.
Fate magazine
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Tatlin’s Timeline was a project I made to put in the spread before actually laying it out. The timeline is named after Vladimir Tatlin an artist from the Constructivism era.
Silk Screen printing is a form of stencil
printing using artwork cut out of paper,
or another material. It is used today to print
many things, like tee-shirts, sweatshirts,
stickers, posters, even packaging. It is done by
attaching your cut out stencil to a sheet of
silk that has been streached tightly over a
frame The easiest way of sealing the screen is
to attach stencils from papers or foils to it.
Another manual way is to draw on the screen
with a liquid screen filler, which seals the
screen after hardening. However, the most com-
mon way is the photographic transfer of positive
films. For that, an even layer of a photo sensitive
emulsion is applied to the screen. After dry-
ing, the screen, covered by the prepared film,
is exposed to UV light, which hardens the photo
sensitive layer. The parts of the screen which
were covered by the film, which were not exposed
to the UV light, do not harden and can be washed
SCREENprinting
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Hydro 74 is a big name in the screen printing
world. his very complex posters have earned
him fame and clients such as nike
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This is a spread I designed in my AP ROP graphics II class. I am interested in screen printing, so I thought doing a spread on the subject would teach me more about it. I did actually learn more about the subject, and I have some shirt designs that I would like to print on page 21.
Screen printing spread
Branding 11
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This is an identity project for a fictional art gallery I created called the “Uncanny Gallery”. It was the first branding project I had ever done, and I felt pretty positive about it. The gallery’s purpose was to promote work that was unsettling and unseen. The thing I liked most about this project would be the logo. I saw a picture of a person with two pupils and I thought that was the weirdest thing I had ever seen, so I tried to recreate the feeling I felt about the eye, with the logo.
Uncanny Gallery
601 Montgomery St San Francisco, California 94101 exoskeleto.net 415-766-1007 FAX: 415-766-1007
exo
exo
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Joe ranft
415-588-6879
601 Montgomery St
San Francisco, California 94101
owner
exo
This branding project was inspired by my interest in backpacking. The concept behind this design is that beetles have exoskeletons that protect them, and humans need shells to protect them as well. EXO would be making outdoor gear such as tents, jackets, and sleeping bags. Anything that could be considered an Exoskeleton.
EXo outwear
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15This is ephemera for EXO Outwear, they would make the best outdoor gear you could buy, efficient, lightweight, durable, and warm.
Miscellaneous 16
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I took an Illustrator night class at Allan Hancock College during my junior year in high school. This is an assignment I was given to redesign California’s currency if it seceded from the nation. The usage of different colors would help distinguish which bill is which, making any currency exchange a breeze. I liked making the complicated pattern on the front, it gave the money a more legitimate look while trying to ward off counterfeiters.
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This is an alphabet I made using the Scriptographer plug-in for Adobe Illustrator. I’m interested in typography and making my own alphabet was a fun experiment with limited boundaries. A problem I had while constructing the alphabet was the readability, since the letters are made with about 25 strokes all lined up, they have to be incredibly thin, making it hard to work with.
Scripto alphabet
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At the end of the year in AP ROP Graphics I, I had the chance to make an ad for a product. I created a poster advertisement for DROID phones. I don’t own a DROID phone but I suppose they’re pretty useful, especially if they are the ones you are looking for. “We are robots” is a jab at people who are sucked into their cell phones all the time, and can’t do anything without them.
Droid ad
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These are all shirts that I plan on making sometime in the near future. Illustrations that I drew were scanned, and then Photoshoped onto tee-shirts. My favorite one is definitely the FUNGUY, because he is a fungi.
Tee-shirts
Sweet trousers
FUNGUY
pickle head
Illustrations 22
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I love to create psychedelic artwork, the use of vibrant color seems to make the art jump to life. This is a sketch that I drew to practice my skills in shading, I liked the way it turned out so I decided to add color, and turn it into a poster for my room.
Heads
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I took a Photoshop night class at Allan Hancock College my junior year of high school. In the class we were learning about separating images into the four different color layers, CMYK. This piece was my first run at that concept, and using only Photoshop to create a piece or artwork. I also entered this piece in the California State Fair and it took first place in digital composi-tion. I really liked editing the man in this piece, making things or people as surreal as a dream is always fun because you are only limited by your imagination.
spaceman
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This piece is a depiction of the good inside everyone. I painted it my junior year and It was one of the first larger paintings I had done. Water colors were used to create the rainbow pattern of the soul climbing out of the mouth of the now empty man, who’s blackness was achieved by the magical substance India ink.
Empty
This is a collaboration project my good friend Felix Talkin, and I constructed, then painted. I painted the goat figure on the left. It is a six foot tall shrine illustrating the duality of man. The project was created to be put into an art show that our school was host-ing, but it was turned away before anyone could see it because it would cause too much of a “disturbance.” This project was important to me because it was the first time in my life something I created was censored, I will always remember, Felix and I worked on it during a three-day weekend and brought it in to the class that was being used as the gallery and we were turned away. The art teacher who was in charge of the show claimed it would draw negative feedback to the pro-gram and the principal would have to intervene, it was ridiculous. So now we leave it in abandoned fields on the weekends...
The Shrine
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Goodbye
Contact Information:Nate Chandler
732 Enterprise Ave.Lompoc, CA 93436
thank you for your time