Lindsay likes art

Behance

2009-09-02T21:36:00.000-07:00

I put up some of my work on a Behance portfolio. Thanks to Laura for the invite.
http://www.behance.net/lindsayedwards/frame

Business Cards

2009-08-28T15:33:00.000-07:00

Here is some new cards I am working on. Take a second to tell me what you think.

I am dropping the forced "designery" look I have been trying to put on myself for the last year and going back to a more illustrative and retro look that I wanted when I started working in graphic design.

Senior Project!

2009-06-24T13:37:00.000-07:00

This kit was designed to help the grieving teenager. Suffering from a heavy loss of my own when I was 17 taught me that there are not enough resources out there to help teens deal with all the overwhelming emotions that goes along with loss. The kit includes; a instruction booklet, a self binding scrap book, twine, stickers, envelopes, and a box to keep it all in with a frame.

Overhaul

2009-06-20T11:32:00.000-07:00

This blog is about to get beautiful. Just as I am about to make the transformation from dirty art student to professional designer. No, don't worry, the dreads are staying.

Newish Work

2009-04-28T15:46:00.000-07:00

Color Range Photoshop Tutorial, poster 2008

Greenies, packaging 2008

Greenies, detail 2008

Intersections, exhibition 2008

Intersections, exhibition 2008

Intersections, exhibition detail 2008

Intersections, exhibition detail 2008

Something Pretty

2009-04-28T15:40:00.000-07:00

Senior Project Pattern

2009-04-22T11:06:00.000-07:00

Here is a bad web cam photo of a pattern I made for the inlay of my box in my show. I wish you could see the paper better, it has a slight shimmer. It's gorgeous!

Senior Project Book Intro

2009-04-20T18:18:00.001-07:00

When someone close to you dies, your whole world feels foreign. This is the first time an emotion this strong and sad has taken a hold of you. You may feel like everything that used to feel right now feels wrong. You may be scared, you may be angry. Whatever you are feeling is ok. There is no wrong or right way to feel. It’s ok to listen to suggestions from others, but these emotions are something you alone are going to have to come to terms with in your own personal way. Not to say you are alone; you are most definitely not alone. It is the painful truth that everyone must die, as you are very aware of at the moment. We all will experience death. With every death comes the devastated friends and family left behind.

And here is where you are. You lost someone, in the deepest, most painful sense known to humanity. There is nothing you can do to change this fact. Today will be hard, tomorrow might be worse, but the days are going to keep coming. You will always feel this loss, but it’s going to dim and over time become more manageable. This does not mean you will forget or that you care about the person you lost any less. It just means you had to keep living, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Sometimes people need help. There is nothing wrong with looking for assistance when something is too much to take on alone. If you need to turn to a friend, you should. If you think talking to someone who has experience with loss will help, any grief counselor will be equipped to aid you. There are many websites that offer advice and can point you in the direction to seek further support. Alone or with help you can grieve in the way best suited for you.

This book holds no secrets to “moving on” or “getting over it”. There is no such thing as getting over losing someone you care about. You are always going to remember and care for them as you did before they died. The only difference is they are no longer present in your life physically. This book will help you remember them the way they were and to keep these memories for the future.

BANG

2009-04-17T12:53:00.001-07:00

More minor tweeks

2009-04-03T11:28:00.001-07:00

variation

2009-04-02T22:14:00.001-07:00

I might like this better.

I finally made something

2009-04-02T21:56:00.000-07:00

Concept illustration for my senior project.

Funeral Customs Museum in Trouble!

2009-03-09T16:48:00.000-07:00

Morbid Anatomy says it better then I could:
http://morbidanatomy.blogspot.com/2009/03/funeral-museum-at-deaths-door-new-york.html

I spent a couple of hours at this museum last spring and it fed my morbid curiosity and gave me a lot of material and ideas for my senior project. (Which is getting a really great face lift right now, you will see soon.)

I hope somehow they figure out how to stay open. I plan on visiting again when I go visit Springfield in a couple weeks.

Senior Project Proposal (It's a bit long)

2009-02-08T17:25:00.000-08:00

INTRODUCTION
When my little sister died six years ago, my family and I were subjected to our culture’s unhealthy views of death and mourning. We were encouraged to move on with life like she had never existed, looked down upon for being emotional, and even ostracized by the hospital community we had spent so much time around. Using the skills I have gathered in my years at Minneapolis College of Art and Design, I want to use this project as a campaign to not only bring this black spot on our culture to light, but to encourage healthy change towards acceptance of grief.

CONTEXT
Western views on death are unhealthy, unnatural, and damaging to the moving on process of people experiencing grief and loss.

HISTORY
Memento mori in art history. Examination of other cultures’ acceptance and awareness of mortality. Early American death symbolism. Victorian views on living around death. Increase of violent world conflict and natural disasters in recent history.

CURRENT SITUATION
Western society has forced the idea of mortality out of people’s minds. We accept cultural programming that denies mortality. We don’t need fear when life is ready-made for us. We grew up watching war and other mortal dangers on heavily censored news. In the last decade the world has been seeing more death and disasters then most people can remember in their lifetimes. We have been forced to start to shift views on death.
Our reactions have been programmed in us to discourage the natural grieving process, causing more harm then good. We are told that it is not appropriate to show outward displays of grief. It makes us uncomfortable to be reminded of mortality, so we tell the bereaved things like “It’s time to move on,” when the best thing for the survivor to do is grieve as long as needed for themselves on their own terms.
In a study for Terror Management Theory, created by psychologists; Jeff Greenberg, Tom Pyszczynski, and Sheldon Solomon, “the theory is that humans are motivated to quell the potential for terror inherent in the human awareness of vulnerability and mortality by investing in cultural belief systems (or worldviews) that imbue life with meaning, and the individuals who subscribe to them with,” subjects were reminded of their own death under the guise of a psychological questionnaire and then asked to distribute, using their own judgment, an amount of hot sauce for another subject to ingest. The subjects ended up giving people with different religious and racial backgrounds a larger amount. This study shows that the views Americans hold on dealing with grief can have treacherous results.
We live in a society where dangerous behavior is trendy, and safety is disregarded. Our youth, especially, are removed from reality: the leading causes of death in youth ages 15-24 involve automobile and firearm accidents. These would be easily preventable if the severity and finality of death were more emphasized.
We are obsessed with staying young, going so far as mutilating our bodies to look younger. Even after death, we pay for practices like embalming as an attempt keep our loved ones body looking alive. This is an expensive process that is pushed as appropriate by society. This procedure can cost around seven grand and funeral homes have been known to hold bodies from the surviving bereaved can come up with the funds.
Death has been taken over by the funeral industry. The popularity of the “green burial” is threatening the industry so laws are being passed to make it harder to legally dispose of a body without the intervention of funeral professionals - and inevitably, the costs associated with it. We as a society let this happen because we are uncomfortable with anything having to do with death and in avoidance of that not fighting for the freedom of deciding how we would like to be disposed of. As well as causing unneeded troubles for the surviving loved ones.

Death is something that everyone experiences. 62 million people die each year worldwide. It is obviously unavoidable and it should not be something that we avoid discussing. I believe we need to stop pushing away the grieving process, and work harder to accept and embrace our own mortality. We can do this by looking to other cultures and to our own history for examples of healthy mourning. It will also help to encourage communication with each other and find a way to drop this fallacy that emotions equal weakness.

PROBLEM STATEMENT
How can I help Western society begin to accept grief as a healthy and normal human act?

PROJECT GOALS & OUTCOMES
Public service campaign. (Commercials, print ads, pamphlets, interactive website.)
Creation of educational programs

SPECIAL SKILLS & APTITUDE
As mentioned before, I have personal experience dealing with death, and witnessing firsthand the negative reaction by society to my grief. I have spent much time studying and visiting cemeteries. My personal library is full of books on death. I am very passionate and committed to this cause and will work my hardest to see it through to completion.

POTENTIAL AUDIENCE
Middle-Class, Middle-Age adults that live in the suburbs of the United States.

POSSIBLE SPONSORS
Psychiatrists and psychologists who specialize in thanatology.
Grief counselors/Hospice care providers

Workspace

2009-01-29T12:54:00.001-08:00

I think how someone sets up where they work says a lot about them. Here is mine:

Lindsay makes a webpage

2009-01-25T20:26:00.000-08:00

Aw man, look at how fun it looks! Don't you want to bring your old person there?

Dear Mr President

2008-12-24T22:30:00.000-08:00

It basically says, this is the amount of American soldiers killed in the Iraqi war. Fix it.

Graphic Design 3

2008-12-24T22:18:00.000-08:00

This is all the stuff I designed for a fake exhibition of anatomy prints from pre-1800s. My computer got stolen so I never got to finish it. But I like what I started with.

poster, 2008

mailer, back page, front page, 2008 (pretend the black body is a diecut.)

mailer, page 5, page 3, 2008

mailer, page 4, page 5, 2008

mailer, page 6, page 7, 2008

Things I've Done For Fun

2008-12-24T21:59:00.000-08:00

childhood friend's wedding guest book, 2007

drawing, ink and digital, 2006

drinking smoking and creating, 2008

laying in the sun, 2008

Photography

2008-12-24T21:38:00.000-08:00

Mississippi river, 2008

abandoned hospital, Minneapolis, 2006

abandoned mill, Minneapolis, 2006

abandoned church, Missouri, 2007

abandoned school house, Missouri, 2007

abandoned school house, Missouri, 2007

abandoned factory, Minneapolis, 2006

abandoned lab, University of Minnesota, 2006

abandoned slaughter house, Minneapolis, 2007

abandoned mill, Minneapolis, 2006

abandoned asylum, Illinois, 2008

asylum cemetery, Illinois, 2008

asylum cemetery, Illinois, 2008

asylum cemetery, Illinois, 2008

Early Work, Part 2

2008-12-24T21:22:00.000-08:00

From my first 3 years at Minneapolis College of art and Design

cd Face, 2006

detailed logo for restaurant, 2006

menu for restaurant, 2006

menu for restaurant, 2006

project UFO, screen print partnered with Taylor Snyder, 2007

collage, 2007

Obama Shirt

2008-09-02T13:16:00.000-07:00

Made this to wear around downtown during the RNC.

Not the most original design, but I needed something quick.

Early Work

2008-01-30T15:15:00.000-08:00

All work is from my first two years at Minneapolis College of Art and Design.

Evie's Suitcase, 2006

2 above: Dream Book,2006, Cover
Dream Book, page 1

2 above: Identity for restaurant, 2006
Process Book

2 above: Hamilton web site, 2006, Home
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Poster for Minnesota State Fair, 2006