Designers Statement
There are three categories that reflect off this piece and the lovely message, "life is better with art in it." The three major categories are beauty, nature and uniqueness. Art plays a major role in each of these categories, if you sit down and really think about it. When I first attempted to start the project I thought of life, which helped me in the process of conjuring up a vector of a pretty female face figure to represent beauty. What do her thoughts look like? Well, in the poster you see that her thoughts are made of sparkling rainbows and magenta bubbles which were made in Illustrator CS2 and colored in Photoshop. The rainbows represent nature. In nature there's art everywhere, if you see it the way I do. What keeps this unique world running and not into mass destruction? There’s a magic box named “life is better with art in it.” This box works discreetly without any action, but it helps “Burlina’s” world function the right way. This artistic world is unique, beautiful and full of nature’s surprises, and “Burlina” is happy with her life because she will always have art in it.
Why I want to be a graphic designer
It is my destiny to emerge as a professional graphic designer. At an early age I realized that I had an excellent photographic memory and that I was particularly aware of signs, posters, textures, shapes, ads, magazines and large billboards that I encountered daily. I think it’s my destiny to be a graphic designer because so many events in my life have led up to this point where I am writing this statement and am confident that my real passion is for graphic design and that I will pursue a career as an artist. I am grateful that my parents provided me with the privilege of having full access to a computer, where at the age of twelve, I was self-taught in HTML (hypertext markup language). Then I transitioned on to Web designing that then opened the doors to Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. My interest in Web design grew more to graphic design. Soon I had my own online graphic portfolio that was more focused on the art via HTML/Web design. When I say, “I want to be a graphic designer,” I know that I can utilize my skills and degree in a multitude of applications. Graphic design is an integral part of every subject that can be converted into different areas such as magazine art, printing, poster design, illustration, digital design and many more. I love that I can take ideas from my everyday life, thoughts, dreams and premonitions and transform them to a visual - and not only a visual on paper or the computer screen, but any shape, size, form or dimension. I know in my heart I want to keep doing this for the rest of my life and that it will be possible with the direction and experience I gain at The Art Institute.