Archiving My Photography Class to My Portfolio

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There is a particular kind of quiet that settles in when you finally sit down to gather the pieces of something you made. This week I found myself doing exactly that, pulling my university photography class work into the portfolio section of my website.

It felt less like housekeeping and more like looking back through a window at a version of myself still learning to see. Each frame carried a small memory, the light I chased, the mistakes I kept, the shots I almost deleted and now cannot imagine losing.

Photography has always been about noticing. The class taught me the mechanics, aperture, shutter, the patience of waiting for a moment to arrive, but the real lesson was slower. It was learning to trust what caught my eye and to give those images a place to live once the semester ended.

So the portfolio grows a little today. These photographs are no longer scattered across old drives and forgotten folders. They have a home now, arranged in a way that feels honest to who I was when I took them.

If you wander through the new additions, I hope you see something of what I saw. A striped shadow, a strip of film, a stubborn attempt to hold onto the ordinary. Archiving is really just remembering with better organization, and I am grateful for the chance to do a little of both.

Coroflot.com Featured Project

DESIGNATHON:
24-hour event where teams of volunteer Communication Design students along with professors and alumni, design and produce pro-bono creative works for non-profits.
 
ORGANIZATION MISSION:

[WEBSITE]
To commemorate the life and continue the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King, by developing a memorial, programs and initiatives to honor the King Family and address issues of civil rights, world peace and economic equity for all.

DESIGN:
Simple flat layout design with shallow color pallet and hover-color black & white imagery.
• 100% Responsive design – Breakpoints at 900/600/300 widths
• CSS3 compound stylesheet structure
• Lightweight CMS (Pagelime) editng classes.
• Addaptive jQuery paragraph centering code
• Interactive Google Maps of live site
• Email Subscription and Domation forms

STUDENT DESIGNERS:
• Jessica Savard (Senior – team leader)
• Kirsten Detweiler
• Sydney Schollenberger
(Alumni Mentor – Zachary A. Martz “ME”)

Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King Memorial Project

Martin Luther & Coretta Scott King Memorial Project

DESIGNATHON:
24-hour event where teams of volunteer Communication Design students along with professors and alumni, design and produce pro-bono creative works for non-profits.
 
ORGANIZATION MISSION:
[WEBSITE]
To commemorate the life and continue the work of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. & Coretta Scott King, by developing a memorial, programs and initiatives to honor the King Family and address issues of civil rights, world peace and economic equity for all.

DESIGN:
Simple flat layout design with shallow color pallet and hover-color black & white imagery. 
• 100% Responsive design – Breakpoints at 900/600/300 widths
• CSS3 compound stylesheet structure 
• Lightweight CMS (Pagelime) editng classes.
• Addaptive jQuery paragraph centering code
• Interactive Google Maps of live site
• Email Subscription and Domation forms

STUDENT DESIGNERS:
• Jessica Savard (Senior – team leader)
• Kirsten Detweiler
• Sydney Schollenberger
(Alumni Mentor – Zachary A. Martz “ME”)

KU Designathon 2012

Designathon:
24-hour event where teams of volunteer Communication Design students along with professors and alumni, design and produce pro-bono creative works for non-profits.

I had the chance to work with and direct this talented group of young designers.

  • Emily Snyder
  • Heather Geneva Lewis
  • Peter Hershey

Gift Cards for Charities:
“Currently we are working to establish an orphanage at Lanet-Nakaru to cater for the needs of vulnerable children. The orphanage will be set within a school complex to give the orphaned children a chance to study in our primary school. This orphanage will serve the needs of the people without discrimination regardless their geographical boundaries, religious background, belief, and ethnicity group.”

Detail on Images and link to designers = http://bit.ly/HyELhk | The images above show the development of Navigation layout, wireframes, texture creation, and printed concepts.

Our client requested that we use some traditional african elements, warm colors, images of the children the charity has helped, and easy to understand donation options.

We also discussed future expansion of the site with the client and decided to leave options for a more expansive navigation and additional supporting comment at the bottom of each page.

Moving to Uni 2006

I’m pretty sure this was my freshman year of Uni

This was my typical method of sorting what I need for the year and geting it ready to be packed (top 4 photos). The bottom photo is the result of packing.

Moving to Kutztown University, Pennsylvania

Uccello Rosso

Featured work by Miles DeCoster

  • Associate Professor in the Communication Design Department at Kutztown University
  • Studio artist at the GoggleWorks in Reading, Pennsylvania
  • President of the Nation of Nezúmi
  • Founding member of the Philadelphia Union

Miles DeCoster is a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums – painting, drawing, printmaking, artists’ books, photography, filmmaking, web design and other digital media. He received a bachelor of fine arts degree from the School of Fine Arts at Washington University in St. Louis and a master of fine arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. His work is rarely shown and widely ignored, but he keeps at it nonetheless, as that is what artists do.

Miles DeCoster è un artista visivo che lavora in una grande varietà di medium – pittura, disegno, incisione, libri d ‘artista, fotografia, cinema, web design e altri media digitali. Ha ricevuto un laurea di belle arti alla Scuola di Belle Arti della Washington University di St. Louis e un maestro di belle arti di laurea della Scuola di Art Institute di Chicago. Il suo lavoro è raramente esposte e ampiamente ignorato, ma che ha a che tuttavia, come questo è ciò che gli artisti fanno.

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