About Me.
Over the years, my work as a designer at Mason Gross
has evolved to a great extent and is mainly influenced by issues and daily struggles
that concern me and also taking inspirations from the environment around me. I
also feel as if I have grown as a designer over the past year as I willingly try and make
work that is distinct and simple for it to be able to get my ideas and objectives across.
Working around with images and text, I have grown to simplify my art that portrays
its function through its forms using images and text together in books, posters, websites,
etc. involving other mediums in my work like print, paint, collage and photography. This
has also become one of my strengths as I start mixing different media together in my
works becoming interested in textures, color choices and layering of elements together
while also being minimalistic in the choices I make. I also feel like I have gained
confidence in the way I use type and image together such as in my books and some of
my posters. Along the way, I have taken inspirations from different artists like El Anatsui
for the way he uses colors in his sculpture collages, and textures he achieves and
Alvin Lustig’s compositions with his well-balanced use of text and graphics together.
Taking a print class has also helped me influence and improve my color, composition and
design choices and has made me switch back and forth between both mediums.
For thesis, I have not really narrowed it down, but I am interested in making more books
layering other mediums like photography and print or redesigning a site or place that
reminds me of home – the culture and place I was brought up in.
A little more..
What city would you rather live in?
Which country do you want to travel to?
Seychelles
Favorite color?
Blue, I find it very calming.
What is your favorite kind of bread?
Favorite flower?
Dream job, if you can't pick designer?
An astronomer