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Design is something that looks through an artististic and scientific lens to create creative, beautiful, inspiring new opportunities for everyone.

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So many people go through their lives getting caught up in routines, work and have ‘grown up’. I want to create things to place in their lives to spark inspiration, give them excitement and bring a sense of fun and play.

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Omar Aqil | Adidas X Overkill ZX8500 | March 2021

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3D Illustration, realism, abstraction

The style imbues how an object can tell many stories and a seemingly simple object sometimes includes lots of materials and labor to create it. less is more? sometimes more is more.

Alignment | Unique, Juxtaposition of abstract and realism.

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Tom Sachs | NASA Space Program: Mars Art Exhibition | 2012

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Raw, Hand made

Tom Sachs brings together high fidelity objects (such as as space suit shown above) but makes them out of raw materials (prodominantly plywood) and champions the mistakes and flaw in the handmade process.

Alignment | Hand made, jusxtaposition of high fidelity products with low fidelity details

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1 | Retro-Futurism
2 | Hand-made
3 | Energised
4 | Unique
5 | Juxtaposition

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Simplistic single line drawing of my favourite hat. Photographed my hat then, traced the outline on procreate.

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Inspired by Bernardo Henning's use of black and white photography and colourful patterns and shapes that give the sense of movement and excitement. Also has some references to 80s graphic design. Photograph of myself, photoshop and procreate.

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Inspired by raw material, diy, technical drawing. Also a collage and bringing together aspects of Bernardo illustration. This is an example that showed me things I liked - raw text, wood, me, hat. but the execution I didnt like. I can take those elements away and apply them in better ways.

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This self representation map aims to collage different layers and mediums to give an insight towards who I am both as a person and a designer. The wood layer represents the hand-made, DIY, workshop, model making passion of mine with the white text over the top inspired by my favourite artist Tom Sachs who also champions ‘hand-made’. The map of words is overlaid on a map of Brisbane. This is because I grew up here and the more I have travelled the more I see that Brisbane will always be home and how much it has influenced both who I am as a person and as a designer. With each layer, it is intended that potential recruiters will understand who I am. At first you see me and what I look like. Then you see my self map and word cloud, intentionally left hard to read in order to allow the reader to discover a new word or phrase each time and also allow them to learn something new about me. Then the Brisbane train map represents where I come from and the wood represents the raw, hand made side of myself as mentioned above.

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My personal photograph curated and taken by myself was curated to give off an exciting first impression of my identity to those that come onto my portfolio. As a person I am very introverted and shy so I decided to represent this by having myself in greyscale. In contrast to this, my design identity is quite loud, bold and bright. The patterns and colours represent an energised and exciting tone that I bring to my designs and that me as a designer let my designs do the talking. I decided to keep my hat on in the photo as it was a consistent theme throughout the background research that I always seem to have it on me and always brought excitement to my day (picking out my hat for the day). This image takes inspiration from the work created and style of Bernardo Henning; however, the shapes and patterns used in this photo collage draw more inspiration from 1980’s neon-noir. The first impression looks to attract companies that have fun, colourful, exciting projects - the kind of projects I like to work on.

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The design and curation of my online portfolio shell is intended to align potential employers or clients with myself, who I am, my values, my design style and what I am passionate about. I want to work with and/or on projects that are fun, bold, exciting and colorful. I also enjoy working with raw materials, speaking to my industrial design and model making background. As mentioned before, the images of myself in greyscale represent my introverted self while the colourful portfolio design represents that my designs are quite the opposite. Items such as the self-representation map give insights towards my inner thinking - something that I have been told is important when looking for a job, so I tried to give as many insights as I could. The portfolio brings together a contrast of inspirations and styles. It is a combination of Bernardo Henning’s style of colourful movement and play, Tom Sachs’ raw hand made elements mixed with 1980’s neon-noir.

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Susan Kare | First Macintosh Icons | 1984

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Simplistic, Retro, Functional, sqaures, limited, Pixels

At its time these icons were revolutionary in the world of technology. The first icons developed for the Macintosh compuer and brought the height of functionality and user experience to a new era in technology. Incredible to see clear messages conveyed with limited number of squares and shapes (pixels).

Retro, functional, thinking about the future, 80s

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Bringing together my favourite object and material to represent myself. Photographed then sketched then adobe mobile app then drawn over the top on procreate.

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Playful, Mix media, artistic, free flowing

Bernado's style looks to portray energy and movement to the hero of the image. The way the colours and lines play aorund provide the viewer with a sense of movement and 'tricks'.

Juxtaposition (grey scale + super colurful)

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Neon Noir

Use of bright colours and neon/light effects, bold use of colours and shapes.

Retro-futuristic.