Portfolio by Andre Ornelas
University Works
Graphic Design appeared in my life when I was assigned to a graphic design class in high school. Since then, graphic design classes have followed me throughout my University years. This collection displays them.
Florida Atlantic
University
2024-2025
Visual Design Lab II
One of the final classes taken at FAU, this class completed the remaining elective credits for both my major and minor at FAU.
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For this project, students had to research an animal naturally resident to Florida. For this assignment I choose the Swamp Rabbit.
Project 1: Animal Logo
Swamp Rabbit
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What type of Ice Cream would you like? This project had students create an ice cream brand, from conception, rough drafts and final product.
Project 4: Sweet Ava's
Ice Cream Brand
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For our final, we had an extended version of a project made for Visual Design 1. This iteration had students present a full demonstration of how a logo rebrand might be displayed.
Final: Logo Rebrand -
Dave & Buster's
Florida Atlantic
University
2024-2025
Visual Design Lab 1
After my studies at NSU, I continued learning design at FAU under the Studio Art Minor, which gave me access to the Visual Design Lab classes. These projects are from those classes. Please enjoy.
Book 1 - Beautiful Birds of Boca
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To prepare for our final project, students were assigned to create an informative book about anything they'd like. This book was created to show birds found around Boca Raton Florida.
Book 2 - Class Portfolio
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This small InDesign project compiles ALL of the assignments created for this class. Below are statements for each assignment.
Mashup Designs with Pointillism
Logo Design Redesign
10 Logos for fictional companies
Positive & Negative Poster
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The class started by familiarizing students with the Bauhaus, Pop Art, Abstract, and Expressionism movements. That said, students had to select two movements from this module to create a design that merges these movements. Having only eaten a packet of M&Ms for breakfast, this became my inspiration. I designed this mash up with the Pop Art Movement (1950s -1960s) and the Digital Revolution popularized in the late 20th century. I looked at the ampersand symbol and realized it looked like a 3. I was also inspired by how I wrote the ampersand, confirming the notion of making M&M into a minimal digital design. Students then learned the elements of graphic design: Point, Line, Shape, Form, Texture, Color, Value, and Space. In this, I manipulated layers by clipping a Halftone adjustment to the layers I already had, and so, this remix was born.
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For this assignment, we needed to find a well known logo and redesign it using basic shapes and forms. Seeing the Nike Logo being a checkmark, I deconstructed and reconstructed the design in this redesign version. I also added an octagon to resemble a soccer ball, as it is one of the known sports supported and utilized by Nike.
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Simply put, this project had students create 10 different designs for fictitious companies.
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Maybe one of my favorite projects from this class, students learned how to create posters that incorporate positive and negative spaces in a design. This design was inspired by The Backrooms, an internet community that makes a world of liminal spaces. Below is a passage of what I wrote for the assignment's theme:
Theme: The Freedom of Liminal Spaces
Liminal Spaces are familiar spaces casts in the uncanny. It is also the place a person resides during a transitional period in life. This can be physical, emotional, or metaphorical limitations. Color represents a person's emotional state during troubling times, a liminal mind, if you may. Uncertainty dwells as life goes from being full of color, to being monochromatic greys. The key may be bright and big, but a shadow of hesitation plagues people from taking action. The keyhole is small, but the center is a clear straight path to get out and access a larger area in life. Grain is used to represent the memories of being in liminal space.
Nova Southeastern University
Graphic Design
2022-2023
During my "first" freshman year, I attended Nova Southeastern University. One requirement of their Art + Design Major/ Graphic Design concentration had students participate in ARTS 2190 Introduction to Graphic Design. This section is dedicated to those projects.